Rangers boss Mark Warburton expects similar Hearts approach under Ian Cathro
Wednesday 7 December 2016 16:12, UK
Rangers boss Mark Warburton expects Hearts to play "a very similar game" at Ibrox on Saturday under new boss Ian Cathro.
Robbie Neilson's last match in charge of Hearts before taking over at MK Dons was a 2-0 win over the Gers at Tynecastle last Wednesday night.
The Jambos confirmed Cathro as their new head coach, joined by Northern Ireland assistant Austin MacPhee, on Monday and, while much has been made of the appointment of the 30-year-old, Warburton is not expecting wholesale changes to the way Hearts will approach the game.
"You have to think that they will play a very similar game, they were quite rightly successful at Tynecastle, what we have to do is find solutions," he told rangers.co.uk. "I don't know much about Ian Cathro, I know he is highly thought of but no more than that.
"If you are there for a week, I imagine if I was Ian I would do very much the same as the previous week when they have won the game 2-0 at Tynecastle, you'd want to try and repeat that.
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"Our job is to focus on Rangers and do what we do better, learn from last week, learn from Saturday as well and deliver a performance in what is a very important fixture."
Rangers responded to that poor showing in Edinburgh with a 2-1 home win over Aberdeen last weekend to move back into second place in the Premiership and Warburton wants his team to build on that.
"We are at home off the back of a good performance, we are second in the league and we want to reinforce that and send the crowd home happy again," he said.
"We do that by being positive, getting on the football and doing everything we did on Saturday and hopefully adding some more quality balls in there as well.
"The fans will be crucial, our home record is very strong and very solid and a big part of that is down to the backing. The atmosphere on Saturday was outstanding. Now our job, of course, is to earn that type of support and I hope the fans can see what we are trying to do."
