Neil Critchley was left frustrated after seeing his Heart if Midlothian side lose 1-0 to Rangers at Ibrox.

The home side took a sixth-minute lead through Cyriel Dessers but Hearts were arguably the better side for long periods but couldn't convert the chances they did create.

Critchley spoke of not wanting the nearly feeling of playing well but not getting a positive result. He also discussed Musa Drammeh, the upcoming international break and more.

Read or listen to everything he said below...

Neil, do you feel you could have got something out of that game, just based on the way it went?

Yeah, we do. We got off to the worst possible start. We were too tentative at the start. Rangers scored. I think we grew into the game, but their best moments probably came from us giving the ball away in the mid-third of the pitch in the first half when they broke on us. But we controlled a lot of the game. We had a big chance right after half-time and I felt that if we'd have taken that, with the feeling around the ground, maybe the game would have swung even more in our favour. I think in the second half we've controlled the game, pushed Rangers back and we've had nearly moments. But I don't want us to be a nearly team. People keep saying, 'Oh, good performance', but I don't want that feeling. Good performance is about getting points and winning games and we should have got something from that game today.

That chance that Kenneth had in the second half as well from a back pass, are those the moments at a stadium like this you just really need to take?

Yeah, definitely, of course. You know you're not going to get loads of opportunities, although if we'd have made better choices, made a better pass, better crosses, we'd have created more. We failed in the last moment and that's what let us down on Thursday night and that's what's cost us picking up at least a point today.

Musa returned to the squad. Can you talk to us about his last few weeks and how he's worked his way back into the squad?

Because of how he's trained. He trained really well the other day and he looked really sharp and he's trained himself into selection and I put a big emphasis on how we train every day. I've just said that to the players now. In many ways I was proud of how we played and how we came here and tried to take the game to Rangers. We didn't just sit back and sit on the ropes for 12 rounds. We wanted to play on the front foot and try and dominate the game. I thought we've contributed to a good game of football. We pushed them right back and that's how we train and that's our belief every day and our mentality from being... I don't want us to be a nearly team. I don't want that feeling.

Does the break come at a good time for you now after a relentless schedule?

No, I'd obviously rather get this feeling out of my system and be playing again and have a chance to win another game. I don't like losing games of football regardless of who we're playing and where we're playing at. You could feel Rangers' quality and everything. Today on the side you could feel it, their physical power, their technical quality. But we wore them down I felt. I thought our mentality wore them down but our quality let us down. So no, I wish we were playing again.

How big will the next couple of weeks be just for you to be able to get some time away from the group of 15?

Yeah, it's really important. The next few days we've got to get the balance right. I think the game schedule we've been on has been relentless. So we'll have the next few days where we're in for training. There'll be a midweek game for the players who haven't played. That's really important. They'll get some rest and then obviously we get a week leading into Celtic which will be vitally important.

What happened at the end, Craig Gordon didn't look happy?

Yeah, I think because it was a possible handball. I've not seen it back yet and I don't know if it was in the box, not in the box. I don't know. I think the time, three minutes, I thought it should have been longer than that. We had seven minutes at St Johnstone last week and I don't remember the physios coming on or anything. So three minutes, I don't know where that's come from. It should have been longer in my opinion. So maybe we would have got a free kick and that would have been... Because we were pushing right to the end. The players gave everything, they went right to the end. We were nearly there, nearly something dropped for us and we just needed that little bit of... Sometimes you need a little bit of luck as well and we've probably not had that in the last couple of games as well.