Robinson wants to recreate winning Boxing Day performance against Rangers

Stephen Robinson wants his side to "hurt" Rangers by defending well and doing the "simple things" right, as they try and record back-to-back victories against the Ibrox side.

St Mirren beat Philippe Clement's side 2-1 in Paisley on Boxing Day thanks to Caolan Boyd-Munce's injury-time winner, and are now sitting in the top half of the table, above Motherwell and Kilmarnock on goal difference alone.

Should St Mirren win, they'd record consecutive league victories over Rangers for the first time since they won three in a row in 1979-80 under Jim Clunie.

"We proved only a few weeks ago that we can beat them, deservedly so in my eyes," Robinson said.

"We were very good first half, they were very good second half, and then we came strong again.

"You have to defend well. They've got a lot of talent up front, a lot of spark up front, Vaclav Cerny is a big threat, and they've got other players that can win games on their own.

"So we're aware of that but if we press properly and we stay in the game then we believe we've got threats of our own in the forward areas, in the wing-back areas.

"Rangers will play and try and dominate the game and dominate possession, which is fine for us. We've got players that can hurt the spaces in behind, so it has to be the same level of defensive performance.

"We have to defend well, we have to do the simple things. We've defended much better in recent weeks. And then we have to believe when we land on the ball, which we have done in in the last two games and in the previous game against Rangers."