Scott Arfield in Rangers title demand as Celtic offered Ibrox dressing room 'mentality' insight
Arfield wants his teammates to keep the heat on and refuse to let Celtic gain any more ground on them.
Scott Arfield has urged his Rangers team-mates to keep piling the pressure on Celtic.
The experienced midfielder was the Ibrox side’s saviour on Tuesday night when his two stoppage time goals busted Michael Beale out of jail with three unlikely goals at Aberdeen. His heroics kept Rangers hanging on to the coattails of the league leaders but he knows winning remains non-negotiable.
Arfield said: “To score in any game is brilliant, especially in this (Aberdeen) fixture when you know how feisty it is. You can win the game in the first 10 minutes or in the last two as we did the other night, it doesn’t matter as long as you get the three points. As much as it feels big at the minute, the manner in which it happened, we are still trailing behind and we know that. That has to be the mentality at the moment. We need to keep putting pressure on and keep doing the right thing. Hopefully if we do that it will change for us.”
Beale has given the Ibrox side a lift since he came in. He has led them to three straight wins from the friendly win over Bayer Leverkusen to the Premiership triumphs over Hibs and Aberdeen. Arfield believes they are building up a head of steam and it is now about keeping it going.
Rangers now head to Ross County on Friday before they have two big home games against Motherwell and then the all-important one against Celtic in the New Year derby. The experienced star admitted: “Momentum is massive at a club like that. We need to get momentum and we need to get it fast. There are no if, buts or maybes about that.”
Beale praised his side’s character at Pittodrie but insisted their performances need to improve. He has set standards and Arfield and his teammates are determined to maintain them. “We know the position we are in,” the midfielder stated.
“The manager has installed his message from the very first training session. If you fall beneath those standards you are not going to be playing. So it’s about doing well and keeping the mentality strong.”
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