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Rangers benefited from lack of VAR last time we were at Ibrox, says Well boss

Graham Alexander says Motherwell should have won the last time they played Rangers at Ibrox, with the Glasgow giants benefiting from Scottish football's lack of VAR.

Alexander says Fashion Sakala's 12th-minute strike in the September 19 clash shouldn't have stood, and that his side would have won with Kaiyne Woolery's goal after 66 minutes.

Motherwell travel to Govan on Sunday to take on the Premiership champions, and Alexander hopes they can go one better and take all three points.

He said: "If we had VAR we would have won the game, that's the reality. They scored a blatantly offside goal, which everybody saw, and we scored a perfectly legitimate goal ourselves to get the draw.

"Listen, we were under a lot of pressure in that game as well, so we understood that there was a tough challenge in front of us for 90 minutes.

"But one thing I always say to my players is that they never give up, they're always going strong to the end.

"They haven't got that in their make-up to give up, that's what kept us in the game and got us that point.

Kaiyne Woolery netted a leveller for Motherwell at Ibrox back in September (SNS Group)

"It could have been different on a different day and a lot of games are - there are moments in games that go your way or they don't, and they determine how the rest of the match goes.

"However we go about the game, we're going to have to run, tackle, pass, press, so we always do the same things in every game, but we can't afford to lose any focus, which I don't believe we will."

When asked if pressure on Rangers to chase leaders Celtic might be something Motherwell can benefit from at Ibrox, Alexander pointed out that his side have issues of their own, having not won a league game since the turn of the year.

He said: "There's pressure on all teams, there's pressure on us. We haven't had the wins we feel we should have, but that's down to our control, not anything else, apart from things that we could have controlled better.

"We have to try and make those improvements, so there's pressure on us to win games, because we don't want the season to peter out.

"We want to finish strong, we want to finish as high as we can.

Alexander says his side will need to work hard on Sunday again, but they never give up (SNS Group)

"Every team coming to this stage in the season has something to play for - the league table shows you that - so we'll deal with ourselves.

"If you play for Rangers you're under pressure to win every single game, so I don't think they'll see Sunday's game as any different from any other that they play, from the start to the end of the season, to be honest."

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