DEREK McINNES claimed Dundee’s equaliser felt like a balloon popping for his Rangers aspect as they threw away two factors from a profitable place at Dens Park.
Behind by Bradley Fink’s opener, the Ibrox males turned the sport on its head with two marvel objectives from Badredine Bouanani and Nico Raskin arriving both aspect of the break.
Seemingly coasting in the direction of the seventh straight league win which might have taken them prime of the desk, Dan Neil’s stumble allowed Callum Jones to assert a deserved level for the Darkish Blues.
Clearly annoyed {that a} much-improved second half show didn’t seal one other three factors, McInnes mirrored: ‘I feel it’s two elements. I feel the primary half, Dundee perhaps shaded it. Definitely they had been a handful.
‘We spoke forward of the sport with the gamers about we wanted to defend. Defenders wanted to be good defenders. We knew Dundee would combine the sport up, they might come after us on full press.
‘We additionally knew that we had to make use of the ball and transfer the ball faster.
McInnes cannot cover his frustration as his Rangers aspect dropped two factors within the title race
‘Their entrance two (Fink and Ash Hay) had been a handful, they are going to be for any again 4 this season. We by no means fairly bought to grips with them within the first half.
‘However we scored an excellent aim from Bouanani, which justifies the choice for me.
‘We defended with much more goal. The efficiency for 20-25 minutes culminated in Nico’s aim.
‘It ought to be a profitable aim, as a result of it was such a high-quality aim. The frustration is that we had the sport there, we had been dominant. We had the sport by the scruff of the neck.
‘Dundee had been struggling to get out of their very own half. We had been in such place. It was nearly like a balloon popping after we made a mistake, which might occur.’
Neil’s error got here after Dujon Sterling’s mistake allowed Fink to provide Dundee the lead.
‘The primary aim is avoidable,’ McInnes acknowledged.
‘I simply thought we had been a bit sleepy and a bit not able to take care of it.
‘After which the second aim is a mistake. Pay attention, I’m not going to criticise any of my gamers for it, however it’s a mistake and it was tough to say something aside from that as a result of we had been so good within the recreation.’
Jones (second from left) is hailed after he capitalised on Neil’s error to equalise
Rangers misplaced their impetus as soon as Dundee levelled, although, with McInnes believing his gamers needed to reply in a extra productive method to the set-back.
‘We by no means actually bought again to that very same degree,’ he continued.
‘Though we did have sufficient balls of their field to attain. We ought to be scoring.
‘I feel what it does do, it kills your momentum, to start with, as a result of soccer’s not only a bodily recreation, however mentally.
‘It additionally offers Dundee one thing to hold on to. Unexpectedly Dundee are considering, we’d simply get one thing right here. However we nonetheless labored the ball into adequate areas.
‘We nonetheless have two broad gamers and two strikers. We nonetheless bought sufficient balls within the field. We nonetheless had alternatives. We nonetheless made them defend.
‘So. though we didn’t fairly get to the identical kind of degree, I nonetheless thought we had been the dominant workforce and we had been the workforce that appeared extra prone to win it.’
Bouanani curls in a leveller simply earlier than half-time for his first Rangers aim
Dundee boss Steven Pressley felt his gamers had been effectively definitely worth the level that maintains their excellent begin to the season.
‘To make use of an outdated cliche, it was a recreation of two halves,’ he stated.
‘I believed our first half efficiency was a extremely excellent and really dominant efficiency.
‘We restricted Rangers to only a few possibilities and we created various possibilities and possibilities that we felt we may have capitalised on extra.
‘We had been actually robust within the duels and the second balls, the elements of the sport that I spoke about previous to the sport.
‘However the pleasing factor as effectively is after we bought on to these second balls, we had been brave in our play and we actually tried to play.
‘So, I couldn’t have been prouder of the group.
‘However the one factor we did count on was a response from Rangers.
‘We needed to trip our luck at occasions. In opposition to the Previous Agency, you must dig in and undergo a bit.
‘We did all of these issues after which we nonetheless got here again for extra.
‘So actually, actually happy with the group.
‘Some actually nice issues to take from it and a bit of little bit of perspective. We’re the primary membership to take some extent off Rangers in eight video games, so our gamers ought to be actually happy with their achievements tonight.’
