When Beale recently commenced his Rangers reign, he would have appreciated that getting wins on the board was far more important than performances at this stage.
The former Queens Park Rangers boss has managed to secure his primary objective, posting wins over Hibernian, Aberdeen and Ross County, yet that triple-header would have strengthened the feeling that he has much work ahead.
Each triumph came by a one-goal margin, the second of two 3-2 wins in his opening matches coming courtesy of goals netted in the 95th and 97th minutes respectively.
Last time out, a first-half John Lundstramgoal proved to be the difference at Ross County, Rangers recording just their second clean sheet in nine games.
While Celtic remain rampant at the top, Rangers can only stay within nine points, but Beale will be looking at the bigger picture as much as he is on trying to pull off one of the more unlikely title revivals in Scottish footballing history.
From Motherwell’s perspective, they will not mind travelling to Ibrox at this stage of Beale’s progression at Rangers and having improved in their last two outings.
Although pride was taken from losing 2-1 to Celtic before the World Cup break, Steven Hammell would have been slightly more pleased with the draws which followed versus St Johnstone and Kilmarnock.
That was more the case with the stalemate in the former, Motherwell having come from behind to earn their point, but they gave up a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 with a rival in the following fixture.
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Despite that frustration, Motherwell were able to move three points clear of the bottom two, and getting this fixture with Rangers out of the way comes at a favourable time with no more league fixtures to come versus either of the top two until the middle of March.
Adam Devine will likely continue at left-back for Rangers as Borna Barisic continues to recuperate after his exertions at the World Cup with Croatia.Beale will give consideration to selecting
an unchanged team, but he acknowledged that tiredness was present in the camp after the win over Ross County.That could see James Sands, Ryan Jack and Alfredo Morelos all come into contention for starting roles
