PEDRO CAIXINHA has demanded further improvement from his Rangers squad as he prepares for his second outing as Light Blues boss.
The Portuguese got his Ibrox reign off to a perfect start against Hamilton before the international break as the Gers ran out comfortable 4-0 winners. He has now had another fortnight to work with his players at Auchenhowie as attentions have turned to the visit of Motherwell this weekend. Rangers head into the Steelmen clash third in the Premiership standings but still with a chance of overhauling Aberdeen to finish best of the rest this term.
The Light Blues played a bounce game with members of their first team and Under-20 squads to round off the first week of the international break. Caixinha was able to put most of his squad - apart from Lee Wallace and Lee Hodson - through their paces as he continues to settle into life in Glasgow, and he is keen to see the Gers take another step in the right direction after putting in the hours on the training pitch.
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“It is important to establish the priorities,” Caixinha told RangersTV. “When you establish them though, we cannot establish everything that my philosophy is going to demand from the team in terms of their performance.
“So, we need to establish some points which are the basis – for example from the Hamilton game, in our opinion we were very good when we had the ball, trying to attack the opponent’s goal etc, and when we didn’t have the ball we tried to attack the ball – that’s the basis we want to build the team around.
“So, this needs to be the basis for the Motherwell game, but with some upgrades regarding to more principles in these two moments, and some more upgrades with regards to other areas of our game.
“We have also been working on our set pieces, and we see Scottish football has many different types of set pieces from the opponents we are facing – both attacking and defending – so we are trying to be focused on that. Also, analysing the opponents is part of our job, but mainly preparing our team with regards to our behaviours.”
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