“The atmosphere was incredible for 50 minutes, really incredible. It was amazing to feel this.

“We pushed our players forward, forward. Then it comes to 2-1 and you feel it in the stadium as well. But this is also part of the game.

Maybe we can do it together, that we come through these small minutes where you feel the opponent comes in better into the game.

But this 50 minutes was really, really outstanding. I really enjoyed this, to be in the touchline in such a game.”

The 36-year-old knows that if the Ibrox club are to progress to the semi-finals they can’t have a drop off in performance like last week.

“I think when you ask me how should be a Rangers team in the future all the time, then we bring our level versus Hearts and also versus Celtic in a really good way.

“This is the most important key, I said this many times. If we can do this, keep going, then it will be tough to beat us in the future.”