LEE McCULLOCH has warned that Rangers will need to be on their guard against Hibs at Easter Road tonight.

However, the versatile player believes the Ibrox club are on their way to the title and have it in them to take nine points from their three remaining games.

Walter Smith's side face Hibs tonight before meeting Aberdeen at Ibrox on Saturday and finishing the season with a trip to Dundee United on Sunday week.

Taking all three points against the Leith side this evening would put Rangers back on the top of the table after Celtic's 2-1 win over United last night, and McCulloch expects Hibs will make it difficult.

"It has been a good venue for us this season, but it is always a tough one," he said. "The first 20 minutes, especially, always seem to be hard.

"They have some really good, dangerous players. Their regular frontline of Derek Riordan, Steven Fletcher and Colin Nish are quality forwards who are all capable of scoring goals.

"But we have a job to do ourselves and, if we keep our level of performance up where it has been recently, we are confident that we can take three points and stay in a good position with two games to go.

"We are in a position now that means we know what is required regardless of what is happening elsewhere. It's in our own hands."

And McCulloch knows that Saturday's monumental Old Firm win has put the champagne on ice for Rangers.

"Psychologically, the Old Firm win was massive because it sets us up for the end of the season with games that are hard but ones we feel are winnable," he told the Rangers News.

"It is a good thing that there is so much competition for places at this point of the season because different people will be called on for different games.

"People who are not playing in one game, like me, have to be patient and wait our turn because nobody knows this game better than the manager.

"His experience at a club like this means he makes the right calls. That's how championships are won."