Steven Gerrard admits his team only performed for 90 seconds of the defeat to Hearts as he blasted the eight passengers in his team.

Very few of Gerrard's starting eleven got pass marks at Tynecastle after struggling to impose themselves on the game.

Ryan Kent gave the away side the lead at the start of the second half and Gerrard was pleased but then angered by how they reverted to their first half performance.

Rangers made two changes at half time with Jon Flanagan hooked after picking up a booking and Ryan Jack also replaced.

And Gerrard revealed the Scotland midfielder picked up a calf injury that forced him into making that substitution.

But he wasn't willing to hold back on his players and insists fans deserve better than what they got.

(Image: SNS Group)

He told RangersTV:"Disappointed. I won’t use the word frustrated because we didn’t deserve to take anything out of the game.

Show Player

"We were rushed off the park, we were out battled and outfought. It’s the first time in 100 games I haven’t recognised my team in and out of possession. Very disappointed. I hope it takes another 100 games before I see it again.

"We deserved nothing out of that football match.

"That’s a cop out for me. I don’t think our supporters deserve to see me stand here and say ‘oh it’s just a bad day at the office’. It’s not a bad day at the office, we’re Rangers and I should at least recognise us doing the right things, what we work on every single day.

Show more

"We were outfought, we were out battled and we had five, six, seven or eight passengers. It’s the first time over the course of a 90 minutes I’ve been shocked by a performance by us.

"We never played well for the first 45 minutes. Having said that we still had the best chances of the half, we tried to liven them up and get into them.

"We were forced into a change with Ryan Jack, he’s got a calf problem. Jon was on a yellow card so we wanted to change it there. At half time we thought ‘okay, we haven’t played great but there’s another 45 let’s see if we can try and at least be recognisable’. We were for a minute and a half, scored a great goal and then fell into the trap of getting outfought."

(Image: SNS Group)

Gerrard was also willing to take blame himself and admits it could be a fiery team meeting back at the Hummel Training Centre on Monday.

He felt that the players didn't know what they were doing and admits they'll all be able to get things off their chest over the next two days.

He added: "We weren’t really sure what we were trying to do. Are we trying to play out? Are we trying to go long? Everyone was caught and not sure what we were doing which is my fault. I’m asking them to do it but I didn’t recognise them today.

"I get your question but I’m not feeling one percent of positivity right now whether there’s a game on Wednesday or not. I need to get over this first and foremost, and speak to the players tomorrow.

"We need to talk about it and both get stuff off our chest. Then we can maybe start thinking about Wednesday but I think what we have to do is think about Monday and Tuesday first and get through them."