Rangers striker Martyn Waghorn keen to top scoring charts

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Waghorn first player in UK to score 25 goals this season

Rangers striker Martyn Waghorn believes he can pip Celtic counterpart Leigh Griffiths to become Britain's top-scorer.

Last month, the former Wigan forward became the first man in the UK to score 25 goals but just two goals since have allowed Griffiths to overtake him at the top with 29.

However, Waghorn believes the title is still there for him to snatch, despite claiming he has a different job to do than his Hoops rival.

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Speaking ahead of this weekend's trip to Alloa, he said: "It would be good to finish as Britain's top goalscorer and I don't see why I couldn't. There are a lot of other fantastic players across the country but I'll just keep doing my job and the goals are a real bonus.

"There are a lot of things being said about the competition between Leigh and I. But I've got a different job to his. He is in the Premiership, I'm in the Championship.

"I'm doing my job for Rangers, he's doing his for Celtic. We've each got our own personal objectives. Mine is about getting Rangers promoted. I came here with the mindset of scoring goals but it wasn't my first priority- that was to get Rangers back to where they belong.

Griffiths setting the pace in the goalscoring charts

"Is the comparison fair? My job is different. My job is playing out wide and through the middle. I'm doing a job for the team and so is he. That's what you've got to do."

Waghorn has not scored in his last four games and blew a golden opportunity to break his duck when he failed to control a Barrie McKay cross with the goal at his mercy against Kilmarnock last weekend.

But the 26-year-old insists he is more concerned with ensuring Rangers' Ladbrokes Championship title bid stays on track than his own shot at personal honours.

Waghorn blew chance to add to his goals tally against Kilmarnock

"We've been winning so that is the main thing first and foremost," said Waghorn, who has also played for Sunderland and Leicester as well as loan spells with Charlton, Hull and Millwall.

"I had a chance late on against Kilmarnock but my touch wasn't quite there. However, on another day it would have gone in. "It's my job to put the ball in the areas that get us the three points and we've been doing that even if I'm not scoring the goals, so it's not too worrying.

"It would be nice to score from a personal sense but we're still top of the league and still in the cup, which is the most important thing."