Borna Barisic has urged his shellshocked Rangers team-mates to clear their heads and focus fully in trying to get back to the Champions League next season.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s team ended a horror European campaign with the worst-ever record in the Champions League, rounded off by a 3-1 home defeat to Ajax that left them with no points and a goal difference of minus 20. And Croatia international Barisic admits that there has been a mental as well as physical cost to the Rangers squad after suffering repeated hammerings.
But the left back is ready to draw a line under it and get back to concentrating on domestic issues, starting with St Johnstone in Perth on Sunday. Barisic said: “That’s the one thing that we need to do. I think that every time we play Champions League and we lose a game, of course we are disappointed, not just physically but you are tired.
“Mentally, you know they are tough teams but whenever you lose you don’t feel good ... we need to clear our heads, we need to put it to one side. Champions League is unfortunately finished for us. We need now to look forward to leagues and cups. But when you experience the Champions League, you want to play it again next year. We will do everything to be there.”
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