Barry Ferguson claims Rangers a ‘different animal’ this season, makes Premiership prediction
Barry Ferguson has said that he believes Rangers can win every league game up to the Old Firm clash on December 29th.
Rangers are set to play a flurry of fixtures over the next five weeks, with six Premiership games, a League Cup final and two vital Europa League qualifiers.
Writing in his column in the Daily Record, Ferguson said that Rangers have “quality, depth of squad and motivation to keep on winning one football match after the next.”
Ferguson went on to say that he thinks Rangers have improved massively from last season under Steven Gerrard to the extent that he doesn’t foresee any problems against Hamilton on Sunday. He said that would have been a potential “banana skin” last campaign.
“This time a year ago you’d look at this fixture as a potential banana skin,” Ferguson said.
“A difficult trip to play on a plastic pitch against a side that won’t allow them a minute’s peace. And more often not it would turn out to be a struggle right enough.
“There is not even that slight bit of doubt at the back of my mind because this Rangers team is a different animal now. These players are in a really good place and, most importantly, they believe in themselves in a way they didn’t before.”
Ferguson didn’t go as far as predicting either of the two Old Firm clashes that are coming up before the winter break.
Beyond the importance of the Old Firm, both are vitally important to Rangers’ season.
Winning the first piece of silverware of the Gerrard era would be huge, and beating Celtic would mean Gerrard’s men have done it ‘properly’.
A win at Hampden would also give Rangers the momentum to believe they can get a result against Celtic in their yard on December 29.
Coming away without a defeat would see Rangers on a trajectory for their first league win since the 2010/11 season.
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