Pressure Czech

We play for a club where you can't ease off ever so tonight is chance to right a few wrongs says Russell

- BY ANDY NEWPORT IN PLZEN

THREE goals to the good and just 90 minutes away from the Champions League playoffs, some Rangers players might be forgiven for thinking they are heading into tonight's clash with Viktoria Plzen with the pressure off.

Russell Martin insists they should think again.

His team may have taken a huge step towards securing a final eliminator for European football's top tournament with their 3-0 win last week, but they stumbled two back domestically with yet another dismal display in Saturday's Dundee draw.

And the scrutiny on this new Light Blues lineup will be as intense as it has been at any stage since Martin arrived looking to rip up the Ibrox playbook and install his own bold vision.

"No would be the word," said the new Ibrox coach when asked if the pressure levels would be lower this evening. "We play for a club where you can't ease off ever.

"We've got a sold-out away end and it's a big night for us after being a bit disappointing on Saturday with a few things.

"Hopefully we'll see some stuff we didn't do well enough come out and do it better and then bring lots of the stuff from the first leg we brought to the party at Ibrox.

"So no. It's my job on the training pitch to not come off the players one bit at any point.

Even when we get into a flow and it starts looking really brilliant, which I'm convinced it will be at some point.

"It's my job to make sure we stay on them all the time, to keep growing.

"And [tonight] is just a part of that.