Raskin admits 'question mark' over Rangers mentality

Rangers midfielder Nicolas Raskin knows Monday's game against Hearts is "do or die" for their title hopes and understands their will be questions around the players' mentality until they win another title.

When head coach Danny Rohl arrived back in October the Ibrox club were 13 points off league leaders Hearts and had cut that gap down to just a point before last weekend's defeat to Motherwell.

Now, the Glasgow club are four points off the top with four to play but could once again narrow that gap to a point with a win at Tynecastle on Monday.

"It's not nice, especially when we've worked so hard to come back to that position," Raskin said.

"That's the thing that is even more frustrating for us. But like I say, we can't go back to that [Motherwell] game, it's done. So now we need to focus on Hearts.

"We know it's a kind of do or die game. It's either we win and we are in it or we lose and it's going to be very tough.

"So we all know, it's very clear for everyone. We have to win over there if want our chances to keep increasing.

"If we don't believe in ourselves then no-one else is going to believe in us. So first of all we need to believe we can do it.

"We know we can do it. We've shown it during the season. It's just now we have to put the last effort into the last four games and give some extra to go and get the win."

Hearts are searching for their first league title since 1960 while Rangers last won it in 2020-21, since then Glasgow rivals Celtic have dominated the Scottish top flight.

And Raskin admits Rangers need to win a trophy to silence any doubts.

"Like you say, until we win the big thing I think that's going to always be there," he said of questions around Rangers' mentality.

"But I don't think we can talk about mentality when a team comes back from 13 points behind to a position where you can still win the title.

"So it's a bit, I won't say unfair, but like you say, until we win the big thing it's always going to be a question mark.

"But we just keep focusing on ourselves and what we need to do to go and win it.

"And no matter what people say, we don't focus on that. We just focus on how do we win the next game? How do we get better for the next game and that's it."