The Light Blues travel to Parkhead in the Old Firm Derby looking to continue their impressive league form of late.
The Gers head into the match with an excellent away record in the league, and also having won 10 consecutive Scottish Premiership matches, and the manager says his side must start fast in order to maintain their good form.
He said: “Both games since I have come back in the derby we have started slow, we have improved after half time but we certainly need to make sure that we start this game well, that we are strong defensively and we carry a threat going forward with our key players.
The boss says there is a positive feeling amongst the squad heading into the fixture as they look to come on top in the fixture for the first time this season.
He continued: “The team arrive at the game in fine form of 10 consecutive league wins and this is the biggest test going away from home that we have had, albeit our away form has been very good, we are certainly looking forward to the game.
“We have obviously scored a number of goals and you would say in the last three or four away games that we have missed big chances to score even more.
“We are in a positive place and it is game that we have been looking forward to as a squad and now it is important that that the players now execute the game plan and perform.”
The Rangers manager wants his players to rise to the occasion and says it important that they impose their own style on the fixture to leave with a positive result.
He added: “If you look at the majority of the games we play we are a possession based team, it is important that we take the ball and we stay with it and we get our attacking players on the ball, whether that is Todd, Malik and Ryan breaking from midfield it is important that those guys go and show their quality and if we get moments we have to execute them.
“We had big moments at Ibrox and Hampden as well and we didn't, ultimately it comes down to the boxes, you'd like to be dominant in between them but big games are won in the two penalty boxes and the games are always tight and generally won and lost in moments, whether that is off a set piece or a moment of brilliance, they generally are won in the final third, it is important that our big players step up tomorrow.”