Rangers travel to Easter Road today to see if they can finish off the job they started so well at Ibrox in the first leg of the Scottish Premiership play-off semi-final. Manager Stuart McCall says he is ignoring the 'mind games' of Hibs counterpart Alan Stubbs ahead of today's 12:00 kick-off second leg. Rangers hold a 2-0 advantage thanks to goals from Nicky Clark and Kenny Miller at Ibrox on Wednesday. Following the home side's win in midweek, Stubbs suggested '2-0 was probably the most vulnerable scoreline in football'.
However McCall smiled: "I'd probably say that if I was in his position. But I'm sure if you ask Alan he would rather be up 2-0. I take his point, you hear pundits saying on the TV that 2-0 is always a dodgy score but for me I'd rather be going in 2-0 up than 2-0 down. My philosophy will be that we have to defend well but we need to carry an attacking threat and we can't sit in and give up ground or territory. In our eyes we're going there to hopefully score a goal which would mean they need to get at least three."
Stubbs has already rubbished suggestions his team were intimidated by the noise generated by a 41,000 crowd at Ibrox on Wednesday and McCall is in total agreement. The Rangers manager said: "First and foremost it is rubbish about Hibs being bottlers. I think that is nonsense because they performed well and there wasn't much in it. Confidence is a huge thing. Going to Easter Road earlier this season and getting the result we did... galvanised everybody and since then in the big games we have performed. I think the team have only lost one in 16 or 17 games."