Rangers captain Lee McCulloch has called for some dressing-room introspection before next Saturday's crunch match with Hearts at Tynecastle.

The second-place Light Blues had a chance to put further pressure on the Championship leaders when they took on Alloa at Ibrox yesterday.

However, after gilt-edged chances were missed by Kris Boyd and David Templeton in the first half, Ally McCoist's side saw their eight-game winning run ended by the Wasps.

Although McCulloch did eventually get the breakthrough in the 72nd minute from a Lewis Macleod corner, Liam Buchanan levelled six minutes later.

In their later kick-off, Hearts beat Falkirk 2-1 away to stretch their lead at the top over Rangers to six points before their much-anticipated meeting in Gorgie next Saturday. McCulloch admitted the Ibrox players would have to take stock.

"It wasn't a normal day for us, we weren't at our normal self," said the 36-year-old. "It was bitterly disappointing to draw after going ahead.

"We didn't create as many chances in the second-half as we did in the first half and we usually score those chances so we are disappointed with that.

"We had a great clean sheet record coming into the game and that is that out the window as well. So basically, as a full team we have to have a look at ourselves. I will be watching the game again to get prepared for a massive game next week."

The home side were booed off by disgruntled fans at half-time and full-time.

Despite the lacklustre performance, McCulloch's goal should have been enough to take all three points but Rangers were stunned when the visitors, who had drawn 1-1 with the Govan side earlier in the season, struck to again deprive Rangers of two points.

The Ibrox side, almost inexplicably, were in some disarray when keeper Steve Simonsen parried a drive from Kevin Cawley before Buchanan scooped the ball high into the net from a couple of yards out.

McCulloch said: "It was a scrappy game but I thought we missed a fair amount of chances, not just the strikers, by players all over the pitch.

"We missed some chances that we would usually score so the game could have been dead and buried at half-time but it wasn't to be.

"The longer the game goes on, the more nervous you become but we got the breakthrough and then threw it away with a moment of madness.

"They broke on us, outnumbered us and got their goal back and we didn't have enough to win the game in the dying stages."