Rangers left it late to gain a crucial three points away at Aberdeen last night in the Scottish Premiership.

A double from Scott Arfield in stoppage time ensured victory for Michael Beale's side, but the performance was far from polished.

Beale described the display as five out of ten, but there is not much time to dwell with a fixture against Ross County to come on Friday.

After last night's game, glaring statistics have emerged of Rangers' record in going behind during matches.

Since they won the league under Steven Gerrard during the 2020/21 season, the club have played 55 Premiership fixtures.

Of those, the Light Blues have gone behind in 22, a percentage of 40. Results in those 22 games have seen Rangers win 11, draw six and lose five.

It is not the worst record in the world, but under Gerrard, Giovanni van Bronckhorst and now Michael Beale, the Ibrox team are giving themselves an uphill battle on too many occasions.

In comparison, Celtic have gone behind in just seven games in their 54 league matches since losing out on 10-in-a-row to Rangers. This is just 13 per cent of their fixtures.

Meanwhile, Scott Arfield hailed a “very important” Rangers victory after producing a game-changing cameo appearance from the bench to earn Michael Beale’s side a dramatic 3-2 triumph at Aberdeen on Tuesday night.

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Arfield told Rangers’ website: “I have worked with the manager for around four years all in, and he knows me very well and knows what I can give to this team and to the squad.

“When you are not in the starting team it is so important that you come on and you try and impact games.

“You look at the ability, particularly in the midfield area where I am trying to get into… It is all about driving the standards and driving the players and that is what creates the good harmony and creates winners and that is our aim, to keep pushing each other.

“It was very important that we started this week in the right way.

“For the first half we controlled large parts of it, they got a good free-kick and the boy did great to score it.

“It was a poor start to the second half, conceding the goal and then again it was about us trying to get back into the game and it only takes one big moment to change it.

“Even before the goals, I probably should score myself with the left-footed shot inside the box so it was all about getting it right and you never know when football can change.

“It can change in the blink of an eye and we have had that done to us so many times over this season in games when we should’ve come away with the three points, so it was very important we did that.”