Honest Scott Arfield admits there’s no way to sugarcoat the Celtic sickener.
The Rangers midfielder is also at a loss to explain his team’s slump in form since the winter break.
But Arfield isn’t prepared to hide from the horrors. Instead, he makes sure he sits and suffers through them again. And as well as searching for answers, he says watching the woeful moments should act to fuel the fires of everyone inside the Ibrox dressing room.
Arfield and his team-mates go into tomorrow’s clash with Hearts playing catch-up for the first time in a long time in the league.
Six points ahead at resumption, the frittering of a lead began against Aberdeen and Ross County and was turned around completely by their Parkhead hammering.
Arfield can’t explain the regression. But he knows solutions have to be found and fast.
Asked if he could put a finger on reasons for the flops, Arfield said: “No, not really to be honest with you. We’ve lost two games this season and we don’t want to lose any more.
“You reflect on every game, of course you do. You do your research pre and post-game. If you don’t do that then you won’t move forward collectively and individually. Every player would have watched it back.
“You don’t forget that feeling of walking off the pitch with that disappointment and that needs to be your fuel to your fire for the remaining 14 games.
“If we win all of our games then obviously we’ll be in a better situation. There are plenty of games to go. There are 14 left of this season and a lot of football to be played.
“It was a bad night for everybody, no doubt about that. I can’t sugarcoat that. But we move on as quickly as possible and it’s a massive game on Sunday.”
Rangers are just a point behind at the summit. Two home wins in the next five days over Hearts and Hibs could easily see them back on top by this time next week.
But club legends such Ally McCoist described Parkhead as a “wake-up call” and warnings simply have to be heeded.
Arfield said: “It was just a disappointing night all round. We never really got going in the first half and the game got away from us. It was just a number of things.
“Their rotation caused us problems. We knew what to expect in the first 10 or 15 minutes of the game.
“They took confidence from an early goal but we can take positives from the second half. They never really troubled us in the second half and if we had got that goal the game might have been different.
“Of course it would have. Goals change games. If you manage to get that under control and score a goal, the game changes. Every game we go into here, we think we can win. That was one that got away from us on Wednesday night.
“You’ve always got opportunities to put that right and Sunday is a massive game for us. We have to react in the right way, stick together and get the result everybody needs.”
The pressure is clearly on the Light Blues going in to face Hearts, who have already taken a point from Ibrox this term.
The margins for error right now at Rangers are virtually zero but Arfield said: “That’s always the challenge with Rangers, anyway. I don’t think that changes.
“But obviously with the deficit we had and now that we’ve not got that, we need to get back to winning games. Winning games is the most important thing.
“Performance sort of comes second, especially when you are on a run like this. We need to get that.
“If the two marry together then it’s the perfect storm so hopefully we can get back to winning games and take confidence from it.”
Arfield also believes the arrival of Aaron Ramsey and his imminent appearance on the park and not just the training pitch will give the squad a boost.
The on-loan Juventus star is building up his fitness to get involved in the title run-in.
Arfield said: “When I played against him he caused us enormous problems. He can create that opportunity or score a goal from midfield.
“He will help us enormously. Hopefully he gets fit as soon as possible and helps us on the pitch.”
