Brian Laudrup knows how it feels to taste defeat three times in a week for Rangers - and doesn't want the same for Steven Gerrard and his team.
The Ibrox side are looking to recover their Champions League hopes against Malmo on Tuesday after defeat in Sweden last week brought them back down to earth.
That was followed by a trip to Tannadice that inflicted their first Premiership loss since March 2020 and left them in need of a response when Malmo come to Ibrox for the return leg.
And Rangers hero Laudrup, who suffered the ignonimy of three defeats in seven days during his first week at Ibrox, knows just how it will feel if they fail to get it.
Writing in his Daily Mail column Laudrup said: "It was one of the worst weeks of my whole career. I’d just joined from Fiorentina in the summer of 1994 but those final days of August counted as the toughest of introductions to this new environment.
“We lost to AEK Athens to go out of the Champions League, to Celtic in the first Old Firm game and to Falkirk in the League Cup.
“Welcome to Scotland, Brian. I remember sitting in the dressing room after the Falkirk game and wondering what on earth had happened.
"I’d scored an equaliser but we ended up on the end of a 2-1 loss to go out of another competition.
“I was in my first month at Rangers. And my head was spinning. Three defeats in a week tends to have that effect.
“It was completely unacceptable. This was Rangers. You just didn’t lose three matches in a row.
“Honestly, it was a nightmare. One that still gives me a little shudder when I think about it 27 years later.
“It was one heck of wake-up call. It depend my own determination of the whole squad, to make sure something like it never happened again.
“Now the current Ibrox side must raise their game to avoid repeating the sequence after the second leg against Malmo.
“I really hope they can because, take it from me, it’s an awful place for any Rangers player to be.
“Those standards haven’t changed. To ensure it doesn’t happen again, Steven Gerrard will know his side simply cannot play as they did in their last two matches.”
