Inside the Rangers dressing room inquest after Motherwell flop as 'honest words' revealed by Michael Beale

Michael Beale ripped into his Rangers players after they were booed off the pitch despite beating Motherwell at Ibrox to go third top.

A deflected Cyriel Dessers goal from a Rabbi Matondo - who later went off with an injury that will keep him out until after the next international break - shot gave Gers an undeserved victory and after withstanding a late Motherwell onslaught, their fans let them know in no uncertain terms that the performance was nowhere near good enough.

Beale was in no mood to argue with that assessment. He said: “From the first minute onwards I was unhappy with the team today. The unforced errors with the ball were unacceptable for players playing here. That performance today was a really poor one. It was a good goal but outside of that some of our play was so poor against a team which was in a good place and is well-organised and came here with a plan. They executed their plan better than us because we constantly turned the ball over and left ourselves vulnerable.

“Losing Rabbi to injury – and it doesn’t look like a good one – didn’t help us, that’s for sure because we were few and far in our team of players like that today who could outplay and dribble with the ball. In terms of a performance that is well below what the players expect, I expect, the fans expect.

"We got away with one today. I don’t want to take anything away from Motherwell. They came here and played well. I'm sure Stuart (Kettlewell) will take a lot from the game. But for me that’s well below what I am looking for from this team.”

Beale, who also revealed that Tom Lawrence will be out until after the international break with a calf complaint, refused to use Thursday’s exertions against Real Betis as an excuse. He added; “I can’t