ROBBIE NEILSON was frustrated at a second half capitulation from Hearts as they crashed to a 5-0 defeat to Rangers.
The Jambos found themselves a goal behind at the break after Alfredo Morelos opened the scoring ten minutes in at Ibrox.
But Rangers would move through the gears after the restart as Morelos netted again and Glen Kamara, Scott Arfield and Fashion Sakala also found the target.
Neilson introduced Ellis Simms in an attempt to get back into the encounter but saw Nathaniel Atkinson and Cammy Devlin fail to make the most of promising situations before the hour mark.
And those misses would prove costly for the visitors as Hearts felt the full force of Rangers' response to their midweek defeat to Celtic and suffered a heavy loss at Ibrox.
Neilson said: "Very disappointed to be honest with the outcome of it. First half we were alright and we came in 1-0 down but I thought we started the second half well, in the first 10, 15 minutes we had a couple of opportunities and probably should have scored.
"We lost the second goal and seemed to just capitulate a wee bit. It was disappointing.
"It shows you where we are at the moment, we are a good team, a very good team, but to get to that level we need to improve.
"I thought first half, we only came in 1-0 down, we were doing well. We played Barrie (McKay) up there with his pace and we were causing Rangers some problems.
"I do think him (Simms) coming on gave us some physicality up there. A disappointing day but the only way we can remedy it is to win on Wednesday night.
"When you come to any good team, when you get chances you have got to take them.
"We probably had two or three very good ones, definitely one we should score. If you don’t do that, it is difficult to take anything out of the game."
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