Steven Hammell was but to burst onto into the Motherwell first staff the final time they tasted a league victory towards Rangers at Ibrox, 25 years in the past.
Owen Coyle scored twice because the Steelmen shocked Rangers on Could 5, 1997.
Nonetheless, Hammell is not any stranger to a win over the Glasgow giants, having been a part of a powerful Motherwell aspect that beat a star-studded Rangers staff 2-0 in his first sport towards them, again in 2000, and would like to make historical past tomorrow night.
Targets from Kevin Twaddle and John Spencer noticed a Motherwell aspect that included gamers like Andy Goram, Martyn Corrigan, Simo Valakari and Don Goodman, overcome the likes of Stefan Klos, Claudio Reyna, Arthur Numan, Jorg Albertz and Giovanni van Bronckhorst.
Hammell would really like nothing higher than to style victory in Govan, however is aware of it’s going to be a tough job.
He mentioned: “That’s the objective. No matter who it's, we’ll put the staff out to attempt to win the sport.
“It’s very tough. The stats and the historical past of that isn’t good – however I wasn’t in cost for lots of these video games!
“I bear in mind we gained a sport right here, one among my first video games towards Rangers, however that’s going away again to Andrei Kanchelskis, Rod Wallace and all these guys who have been taking part in, in order that’s how way back that was.
“It will be nice to get that once more, to get that feeling, however any likelihood to win a sport right here on this league is tough.
“Like each sport we go into, we’ll attempt to give the perfect account of ourselves, we’ll go in to attempt to win the sport – that may by no means change.
“We'll put the perfect staff out that we will, with what we’ve received at our disposal now, and put a game-plan collectively for us to harm them as a lot as we will.
“It’s a staff that’s received a brand new supervisor, new concepts, they’ve seemed totally different.
“They’ve gained the three video games they’ve are available for, they’ve confirmed a aspect to them the place even when it’s not excellent, they’re getting over the road.
“We’re what we will carry to harm them, whereas being totally conscious of what they’ve received.
“It’s a really tough one for us, we have to put the sport on the weekend [2-2 draw against 10-man Kilmarnock] to mattress now, and take as many positives as we will out of it, and be as ready as we will be.”
Hammell says Motherwell undertook some good work throughout the five-week World Cup lay-off, however hoped to make use of dwelling video games towards St Mirren and Kilmarnock as a springboard to successive away video games at Ibrox and at Livingston.
That didn’t go to plan , with burst pipes forcing a postponement of the primary sport, whereas Killie fought again to take a degree that had seemed decidedly unlikely when their captain, Alan Energy, was proven a straight crimson card 68 minutes in.
Hammell mentioned: “We wished to make use of the St Mirren and the Kilmarnock video games to present us that platform to then go into these two away video games with actual confidence and goal, and having extra factors.
“We've got the St Mirren sport nonetheless to play, however we wished to enter these video games in a very good place, on and off the pitch.
“It’s a really tight league, opposition is hard, everybody feels they'll beat everybody else, and we’ve seen that for probably the most a part of this season.
“That will probably be no totally different tomorrow.”
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