Michael Beale has named his Rangers team to take on St Johnstone in the fourth round of the Scottish Cup.

The Ibrox boss is participating in the tournament as Light Blues manager for the first and will be hoping it is the start of his team retaining the trophy they won last year.

Last time the two teams met it was the hosts who ran out 2-1 winners thanks to goals from James Brown and Nicky Clark.

However, since that fixture at McDiarmid Park in November, Callum Davidson's side have only won once in their last eight games.

And Beale will be hoping his team can continue to pile the misery on the Perth club.

During his pre-match press conference, the Englishman spoke about how delighted he is that Rangers will have the backing of a large allocation of fans during the fixture.

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He said: "It has been big in all the away game so far. Wherever we go, we know we have got a fantastic support.

"It helped us massively at Dundee United, it helped us again midweek. We have had some really difficult away games recently; obviously with the weather and changes in pitches and all that.

"I expect all of that to be involved in a real tough cup tie.

"It is obviously nice for us because for our players we can go there and know the crowd is going to be behind us and supporting us.

"I think the crowd, our fans are aware it is a very, very important game and we are aware it is going to be on a tough pitch against an opponent that is going to make life difficult for us.

"But the most important thing tomorrow night is that Rangers are in the next round of the cup - that's our focus.

"I'm sure the fans who are travelling up to Perth are aware of whatever it takes we want to come away with a victory and into the next round."

Rangers XI: McGregor, Tavernier, Goldson, Davies, Barisic, Lundstram, Jack, Tillman, Fashion JR, Kent, Morelos

Subs: McLaughlin, Colak, Kamara, Sands, Wright, Arfield, King, Devine, Lowry

St Johnstone XI: Matthews, Brown, Gordon, Considine, Montgomery, MacPherson, Phillips, Hallberg, Wright, May, McLennan

Subs: Parish, Mitchell, Murphy, Clark, Wotherspoon, Bair, Crawford, Carey, Gallagher