Kris Boyd is looking to help Rangers get their season back on track this weekend after admitting last Saturday's defeat at Hearts has left the club in a "difficult situation". Boyd, who came on as a substitute 10 minutes from time, admits he was lucky to see it out to the end of the game after making a late challenge on Hearts defender Brad McKay.
The Ibrox striker said: "We find ourselves in a difficult situation after the game on Saturday. We kept going right till the end but ultimately we lost the game and need to regroup now. It would be quite easy for everyone to throw in the towel and let Hearts win the league but we can’t do that. We know we’ve got a massive job ahead of us in the next few months. We came off the back of losing to Hibs and went nine or 10 matches unbeaten so hopefully we can do the same thing again. We need to keep the pressure on because we know that Hearts can’t go the whole season without losing points. Of the tackle: that was not like me. I was lucky to stay on the field... but it's happened and we move on."
Boyd will hope to line up his former side Kilmarnock when visit Ibrox on Sunday for the Scottish Cup third round game. The striker, who began his career at Rugby Park in 2000, joined Rangers in 2006 where he scored 128 goals in 143 games before moving to Middlesbrough five years later. Spells with Turkish side Eskisehirspor and Portland Timbers in the MLS followed before he returned to Kilmarnock last season where his 25 goals helped preserve their place in the Scottish premiership. A return to Ibrox at the start of the season has seen him score just five in 18 games but the former Scotland striker insists he will be looking to add to that tally this weekend despite his fond memories of his time with Allan Johnston's side.
Boyd went on: "It’s going to be a difficult moment because I loved my time at Kilmarnock last year. They gave me a great opportunity to go back and play football and I enjoyed it scoring goals week in week out. It was fantastic but time has moved on and I am back with Rangers now and I’m looking to get myself back in the starting line-up after being left out at the weekend and hopefully I can do that and score a couple of goals and put Kilmarnock out of the cup. I can’t complain because I have been given plenty of opportunities in the last few weeks. I haven’t scored the amount of goals that I wanted to but it is a challenge now to get myself back in the starting line-up and hopefully that starts against Kilmarnock. That’s football. I look back to last season and everything went right for me whereas I look at this season and everything has probably gone wrong for me. It’s a difficult moment but there are people out there in a far more difficult situation than I am. It’s a challenge I’ve faced before and a challenge I’ll face again and one that I’m looking forward to."