Kris Boyd is beginning to fear he could lose his place in the Rangers team if he does not start scoring league goals.
The striker has netted five times this season but all the goals came in two cup ties, against Clyde and Queen of the South, and he has not scored in his last five matches in any competition.
The 31-year-old has never gone longer without a goal as a Rangers player and admits he is annoyed by his league drought since returning to Ibrox - but he promised the goals will flow when he breaks his duck.
Boyd, who was promoting BT Sport's live coverage of Hibernian's Scottish Championship visit to Ibrox on Monday, said: "I'd be lying if I sat here and said it's not annoying me. It is. I was brought back to score goals.
"I feel as if I have done other aspects of the game a lot better but I want to score goals. I'm a striker, that's what I have done all my career.
"I have sat in numerous interviews and said I feel as if it's not far away but right now it's not going in the net.
"But I'm not going to hide away from it and not get myself in the box. If I miss chances I will keep going back. If there is one thing I'll do I will get myself in the position to score goals.
"And if I do miss another few I'm not really going to be bothered, because I know it will turn pretty soon. And I know, as soon as it does, hopefully I can kick on and get a few more.
"Strikers do go through spells where they don't score. I felt before it was only about three games, so to find myself six or seven in the league is new. But I go into every game expecting to score and I'm not going to change.
"I have probably been the only striker that has stayed fit but there is competition for places. There are four or five strikers at this club that can come in and take your place.
"I need to get myself scoring, I need to keep performing the way I've been doing in other aspects of the game.
"But I know when I start scoring other things will come, because right now I might be a bit tentative to do things because of confidence."
Boyd helped Rangers to a 3-1 victory at Falkirk on Tuesday that booked their place in the Scottish League Cup quarter-finals, and the forward is relishing the potential chance to face another Scottish Premiership side.
"Our main priority is to get back to the top, we know that, but the cups are a great opportunity for us to show that we are not far away from the level that's required to play at the top," he said.
"We did that against Inverness, I thought we ran out comfortable winners there, and the next round of the cup is going to give us that opportunity, because there is not that many teams left from our league or below."
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