MADJID BOUGHERRA believes the momentum is with Rangers after the point they took at Parkhead.

The gap between the Old Firm remains at two points, and all the indications are that this title race could go to the wire again with 13 matches to go.

But Bougherra believes Rangers were the happier of the two sides - and has insisted that the drive for the title is in the hands of the Ibrox side. We are well within the title," he said. "We feel confident that we can still go on and win it. Even when we lost the game against Celtic in December we kept believing in ourselves and yesterday I think we were the better team.

"We have shown we have good players and a good team and we feel confident."

Despite insisting that Rangers were happy with a point, Bougherra did admit there was a feeling the Ibrox side should have taken all three.

A rollicking from Walter Smith led to a far more effective second period and Bougherra thought Gers were the superior side.

He added: "I feel we should have won the game as we played so well in the second half and we created the best chances.

"We did not do so well in the first half and our passing was not good. There was a lot of pressure on us.

"We can be happy with the way we defended. It is always good to come out of a big game with a clean sheet.

"We were satisfied with the point but we feel that we were good enough to win. The manager was happy at the end of the game but he was not happy at the interval.

"It is probably the angriest I had ever seen him. We all knew why.."

Youngster John Fleck came through his first Old Firm game relatively unscathed and Bougherra believes it was the right decision to start with the 17-year-old.

"He is a player who is always calm and I think he had done enough to earn his start," he said.

"He played well and it will have given him a lot of experience to play in such a high-profile game. I am sure he will have learned from it.

"He will be a brilliant player for Rangers and I am sure in Old Firm games to come he will be one of the players that make the headlines."