Barry Ferguson has been widely praised for taking off Clinton Nsiala half an hour into his first game in charge of Rangers.
The Ibrox side went 2-0 down less than 15 minutes away to Kilmarnock on Wednesday evening.
Before things got any worse, however, Ferguson promptly withdrew Nsiala, bringing on Ridvan Yilmaz in his place and moving James Tavernier to centre-back.
The alteration proved dividends, with Rangers going on to earn an impressive 4-2 comeback win thanks to goals from Vaclav Cerny, Cyriel Dessers and Nedim Bajrami.
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Speaking post-match on Sky Sports, punditry duo Kris Boyd and James McFadden praised Ferguson for his early substitution: "You've got to give a lot of credit to Barry and his staff because it's not easy, especially when it's a young boy, to take him off and then all the focus shifts to him," said Boyd.
"As I said at half-time, it could have been any one of the outfield players that came off after 25 or 30 minutes."
McFadden took a similar sentiment. He said: "Credit to Barry and his coaching team, they make a brave decision to make a change that early. And it worked for them.
"Barry Ferguson, Neil McCann and Billy Dodds were absolutely loving it at the end there. They've come into an extremely difficult situation, so it's quite right they lap it up. Rangers looked stronger as the game went on, they didn't wither."
After securing a much-needed victory in his first game at the helm, Ferguson now turns his attention to the visit of Motherwell to Ibrox in the Scottish Premiership this weekend.
Aiming to make it back-to-back wins in charge, the 47-year-old will be looking forward to returning to home soil after an arduous trip to Ayrshire.
