One Rangers ace is dealing with a race to show his health for his or her upcoming Scottish Premiership conflict with Dundee United, it has been revealed, in what might come as a blow to boss Philippe Clement.
Rangers endure robust begin
After simply 4 video games within the Scottish Premiership, Rangers sit eight factors behind early tempo setters Celtic and Aberdeen, albeit with Sunday’s sport in hand. The Glasgow giants drew their opening sport in uninspiring trend, and the factors hole to their Outdated Agency rivals was prolonged because the gulf at school between the pair was made abundantly clear within the final sport earlier than the worldwide break.
Scottish Premiership desk because it stands earlier than gameweek 5 | |||||||
Place | Staff | Performed | Wins | Attracts | Losses | Objective Distinction | Factors |
1 | Celtic | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 15 |
2 | Aberdeen | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 15 |
3 | Dundee United | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
4 | Rangers | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
It summed up a torrid begin to the season for Clement’s facet, who have been additionally knocked out of the Champions League in controversial trend after Jefte noticed a questionable second yellow card towards Dynamo Kyiv, who went on to attain twice to knock out their Scottish opponents.
It signifies that it has been a troublesome worldwide break for Rangers followers and their staff, although they now have an opportunity to start making amends towards Dundee United, who they are going to be anticipated to beat.
That will not be as straightforward as initially thought although, with Jim Goodwin’s facet at the moment a spot above Rangers and but to style defeat this season with two wins and two attracts of their opening 4 video games. To make issues worse, Clement has been left sweating on a number of of his gamers for the conflict.
Rangers ahead to be assessed
Talking forward of the sport, Clement revealed that he was nonetheless ready on a couple of members of his squad, in addition to ruling three out of competition totally.
All of Rabbi Matondo, Ridvan Yilmaz and Danilo will miss the conflict, with the Rangers boss explaining that “Ridvan continues to be out together with Danilo and Matondo.”
Elsewhere, Ross McCausland picked up an harm over the worldwide break, however might nonetheless function: “Ross (McCausland) picked up a knock on worldwide obligation, nevertheless it shouldn’t be too dangerous.”
However there’s nonetheless a choice to be made round new signing Nedim Bajrami, who turned Rangers’ eleventh summer time signing on switch deadline day when he signed from Sassuolo.
Clement defined that the Albanian ahead had solely skilled together with his new staff for the primary time on Friday, and that consequently a choice could be made on Saturday as to his involvement in Sunday’s conflict.
The attacker, who scored the quickest objective in EURO finals historical past over the summer time, is anticipated so as to add extra verve to the Rangers frontline after it struggled within the early a part of the marketing campaign, however could take every week or two to get absolutely up to the mark with the calls for of his new facet.
