'Confident' Rangers 'fully focused' on 'getting the job done'
Connor Barron says Rangers will approach their home tie with Fenerbache "with confidence" as Barry Ferguson's side look to reach the last eight of the Europa League and avoid a record fourth consecutive defeat at Ibrox.The Scottish Premiership side bring a sensational 3-1 advantage from Istanbul into the second leg tonight, but the midfielder insists no one in the squad believes the job is done."All the boys are buzzing," the 22-year-old said."It was a great result over in Turkey last week but we know it's not over. Everyone's fully focused on making sure the job's done."Interim manager Ferguson watched on with glee as his side dominated Jose Mourinho's side and handled the heat from a ferocious Fenerbache crowd. But Barron knows they need to be even better."We need to be better than what we were over there, Fenerbahce are a top side," he the Scotland under-21 international said. "We respect them and we've got to make sure that we're on the ball tomorrow."We've got to go on and meet every game head on. We're at a big club, these are big matches, every game's a big match."We've got to go out and apply ourselves properly and make sure that we do all we can to get through the tie."We go out there with confidence and look to get through to the next round. "That's all our team's focused on. Every single one of us are focused on getting through to the next round and that's the only thing that we need to care about."For much of the season, Rangers' European exploits have been the only bright lights in an otherwise dull campaign. They are looking to avoid avoid an unprecedented fourth home defeat in a row after defeats to Queen's Park, St Mirren and Motherwell. Barron said it would be a "massive achievement" to make the last eight."We want to go as far as we can in the competition," he added."It would be a massive achievement to make the quarter-finals."There's been a couple of knocks and bumps on the road but it's about how you overcome them and how you look in the future now. "We've got to take every game as it comes and make sure that we win every game we play in, including tonight."
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