Mark Warburton's Rangers sit 11 points behind leaders Celtic
Ross County’s Andrew Davies cancelled out Clint Hill’s opener for the Light Blues in Dingwall.
Gers’ fifth draw in 12 Premiership outings keeps them in third place, 11 points behind leaders Celtic, and left Warburton frustrated at the poverty of his side’s play.
And Davies reckons there will be more pain to come for the Ibrox men if they remain intent on leaving their defence exposed with what the County scorer branded “risk football”.
He said: “We got the early goal and then had six counter-attacks that we had to take advantage of to get ourselves out of sight.
“It wasn’t a good level of performance in terms of moving the ball quickly and decision making. We were sloppy.
“If you are loose and sloppy in decision making then the other team will get chances. A loose pass or a sloppy tackle – whatever it might be – we gave the ball away too cheaply at times.
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Clint Hill scored in Rangers' 1-1 draw with Ross County
“We dropped two points by being sloppy and not clinical enough.”
County had a glut of late chances to win for the first time in 10 league games.
Davies reckons Gers make it too easy for opponents to attack them by always playing out from the back.
“Defensively, the way they organise themselves, I think they’re open,” he said.
“When you look at Aberdeen and Hearts, they’re very solid, not open.
“With Rangers, they give you chances. They will get punished against good teams. We should have punished them but we didn’t. That’s where I rank them.
“They keep trying to pass their way out. That’s obviously how their manager wants them to play. But it’s risk football. They are taking risks in bad areas of the pitch. That’s how it looked.
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“Some teams sit off them and they’ve looked really good.
“If you press them, like we press them, are they good enough to deal with the ball under that sort of pressure?”
County stay bottom but took heart from a performance that could have yielded a win – especially if ref referee Andrew Dallas hadn’t failed to spot Rangers keeper Wes Foderingham handling a passback from James Tavernier inside his own six-yard box.
Staggies boss Jim McIntyre said: “The referee made some strange decisions.
“It’s a handball by Foderingham, I don’t know why he didn’t give it. Wee things like that are pivotal.