Philippe Clement pointed to selection struggles as he responded to a question on the attacking nature of his side against Kilmarnock.
Rangers ran rampant against the Ayrshire side with a flurry of goals in the second half to earn a 6-0 victory in the Scottish Premiership.
Danilo started up front with Hamza Igamane also involved from the start alongside Ianis Hagi and Vaclav Cerny.
Clement discussed his team selection post-match as he insisted the only reason it has taken time to adopt a more attacking system is down to player availability.
Responding to a question on the starting XI "setting the tone and Rangers on the front foot", Clement said: "Yes, but how many times in this one year did I have two strikers available in the squad? That's the reality of the story also.
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"So it's major, it's important to keep everybody fit and you say now the right choices, but I'm sure if we didn't win with 6-0 that maybe you would have said, why is Connor Barron not starting today?
"It's like that. It's like that, but all these players are pushing, they're working hard. I cannot say anything about that.
"We need to keep it that way and then they all will have their moments to shine. They all will have their moments also to sit on the bench and to be ready for the next game because it's such an ultra marathon this season that we need this rotation and smart rotation in the squad and that's what we're going to do the next weeks and the next month.
"So I'm sure maybe you're going to be the first one if we don't win the game to say, why is that one not playing? But that's easy after the game with insight. So that's the difficulty about this job."
