With Rangers sitting on zero points from four UEFA Europa League matches, midfielder Nicolas Raskin made no attempt to dress up the scale of the task ahead of tomorrow night’s meeting with Braga at Ibrox.
For the Belgian, the equation is brutally simple.
“It’s time to get some points. We still have zero, so it’s not great.
“We want to go there and win the game,” he said, underlining the stark reality of the club’s current league phase predicament.
Every match from here is effectively a knockout tie. Raskin didn’t shy away from that either.
He said: “Now we have to win everything. There’s no calculation.
“If we want to think about anything, we need to win tomorrow.”
Rangers’ European campaign has been derailed by a combination of soft concessions, missed chances and a pair of red cards that turned uphill battles into impossible ones.
Raskin was frank in his assessment: “We’ve not scored enough, we’ve lost cheap goals, and in Europe you can’t get away with that.
“If you’re not 100% sure, you lose.”
Braga, who stunned Celtic in Glasgow last month thanks to goals from Ricardo Horta and Gabri Martinez, arrive with momentum and confidence.
Their win at Celtic Park prompted questions over whether that result should serve as a warning for Rangers.
Raskin dismissed the comparison but recognised the threat: “We’re very different from Celtic, but Braga are a good team with very good players.
“We’ve prepared them and expect a very good game.”
The subtext is clear. Rangers cannot afford another slow start or another European night defined by self-inflicted damage.
Röhl’s side need accuracy, discipline, and above all, conviction.
Tomorrow is more than a match, it’s the fork in the road for their entire European season and even with all the progress the new German Head Coach has made in the league, three European defeats in a row would be a major question mark in his Rangers report card.
Now injured winger Mikey Moore, on loan from English Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur was adamant after the previous defeat to Roma at Ibrox that Rangers had to be perfect in their remaining games.
He said: “We need to look at the next four games in the Europa League and we need to win all four of them, really.”
This is a message being echoed by Raskin – and one that Rangers, if they are to maintain their well earnt recent European reputation – must follow up on, starting tomorrow night.