Rangers manager Philippe Clement knows his side aren’t far away from being in with a shout of advancing out of the Europa League league phase.
Although, even with reckoning only another point from their remaining three fixtures should be enough to guarantee at least a play-off position, Rangers won’t go into their match against Tottenham Hotspur with any intention other than to win.
"Everyone is really excited for the game," he told Rangers TV ahead of kick-off.
"The team have already worked hard this season in Europe, so I think with one point more we will qualify. But we are not counting, we want to go full for the three points today and to challenge for the top eight. That would be an amazing achievement of the team.
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"To look at this game, battle with England against a really top team out of the Premier League, so it's a really big test for all our squad now.
"They have took really good lessons and improvements the last week's, the last month's, step by step. This is the next step to take. It's a really big one but we are looking forward to it."
The Rangers boss has made four changes from last time out, with Connor Barron and Leon Balogun dropping to the bench while Ianis Hagi and Danilo aren't included in the current Europa League squad.
In come Robin Propper, Mohamed Diomande, Nedim Bajrami and Ridvan Yilmaz.
Explaining the alterations, Clement said: "We are missing Dani and Hagi because they are not on the European list. And also with some players, I need to take care towards our game on Sunday for the cup final.
"It was difficult to put your strongest team out tonight and the strongest team on Sunday so we had to make some changes there.
"Ridvan will play in front of Jefte in that role. He has a lot of attacking qualities, but we need also good defensive work on the side's because they come a lot with their full-backs.
"Nedim [Bajrami] will play behind Hamza [Igamane] in his preferred position, his best position also, the position we bought him to play that role. Until now he's played a lot of games on the left side because Rabbi [Matondo] and Oscar [Cortes] were injured."
