Rangers kick off the defence of their Scottish Cup crown with an all-Premiership clash with St Johnstone.
The Light Blues have bad memories of their last trip to Perth with then boss Giovanni van Bronckhorst suffering defeat in a run of results that ultimately cost him his job. Michael Beale has since arrived and is unbeaten since taking over in the dugout. His side have shown their powers of recovery on more than one occasion with Kilmarnock midweek the latest five-goal thriller win. They've reached the League Cup Final with an extra-time win over Aberdeen and now they get started in the other domestic competition.
Should the Ibrox men advance to the next stage they will discover their last 16 opponents tomorrow night but that will be at the back of the minds of the players and staff with the job at hand to be done first this evening. Speaking ahead of the trip to McDiarmid Park, Beale said: “There is another game tomorrow, we are a big club and there is always a disaster waiting around the corner, we can’t come off it, we are still trying to push consistency in the way that we play and in team selection.
