Under-pressure Philippe Clement insists he’s “200 percent confident” in the Ibrox board’s backing - despite being told where to go by Rangers’ furious travelling faithful.

Stuttering Gers slipped up for the fourth away game running as they were held 1-1 by Dundee after a dismal Dens Park display. It means Clement’s side have spilled 21 points from their 11 Premiership games on the road this year and now trail Brendan Rodgers’ swaggering Celtic by 15. That is all too much for an enraged Gers fanbase, who took aim at their boss as the beleaguered Belgian led his team down the tunnel at full-time.

But Clement is confident he can win them back over - and insists he still has the support of his Ibrox paymasters. He said: “Yes, of course the fan sare unhappy. We are also unhappy, all of us are unhappy, to lose these three points. Supporters are always behind us when we are good, when we play good games. So today it was not a good game. So I understand that they are unhappy about that.

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“I know these supporters, that they don't give up the moment we show quality. It's about us showing the quality on the pitch and then they are directly behind the team, always. So it's our task to do that as fast as possible. That starts on Sunday, to show quality again and on both sides of the game. Not only offensively, also defensively.

"Today, defensively, it was better compared with the last away games. In that way, a positive. The game that Clinton Nsiala played for his third game for the Rangers, a positive point. But at the end, it's about results, of course. A lot of points spilled over the last two or three weeks.”

Asked by Record Sport how confident he was in the board’s backing, he said emphatically: “Two hundred percent. We have everyday talks about everything, about January, about next season, about everything.”

With five defenders ruled out through injury and stand-in skipper Nico Raskin suspended, Clement was forced to throw for AC Milan kid Nsiala in for his first ever senior appearance. But the enforced change only spread nerves through the depleted backline - which Dundee ruthlessly exploited as Oluwaseun Adewumi swept them Docherty’s team ahead inside six minutes.

Rangers got themselves level 11 minutes before the break - but only Nsiala survived a strong penalty shout as he clumsily collided with Simon Murray in the box. As Dundee appealed, Gers raced forward to level through Vaclav Cerny.

Mohamed Diomande came close to a winner late on as he rattled the crossbar but Clement admitted his side would have barely deserved the victory. “If you start then with conceding a goal after six minutes, you make it more difficult for yourself,” he said.

“I missed in the first half movement up front, movement behind this defence to open up spaces. Determination in that way, with and without the ball.

“That was better in the second half, but not good enough to win the game and to open up the defence of the opponent who are, of course, very low with a lot of people there. So, not doing in that way or showing the quality that the team showed the last couple of weeks in the final third.”

A Gers side that only a week ago swept Celtic aside to record the first derby win of Clement’s reign have also dropped points in successive trips to Paisley, Motherwell, Leith and now Tayside. But he insisted: “It has to do with confidence also, going behind.

“Maybe it gets in the minds of players about last games, losing points in away games. It's also maybe something to do that you need to play a lot of times with the same players. I missed freshness with Jefte and Ridvan Yilmaz on the full-backs, to be decisive with the final pass, the decisive pass. So I think it's a lot of things together, but it was not good enough today. It's very, very frustrating because I know what the team is doing work on.”