Philippe Clement has defended his harm file at Rangers as he surveyed his depleted squad forward of the sport in opposition to Dundee, reside on Sky Sports activities.
When the Belgian took over as supervisor in October 2023, he vowed to enhance the health and availability of the squad which he inherited from earlier supervisor Michael Beale.
Nevertheless, Rangers are once more quick in numbers and significantly naked within the defensive choices forward of the journey to Tayside.
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Captain James Tavernier stays on the sidelines beside John Souttar (groin) and Neraysho Kasanwirjo (knee), Jack Butland (leg) and Leon Balogun, whereas midfielder Tom Lawrence remains to be out.
Utility participant Dujon Sterling is a doubt after sustaining a knock within the 3-3 draw with Hibernian on the weekend which in the end left Rangers 13 factors behind Premiership leaders Celtic.
“It’s a totally different situation,” mentioned Clement, who can even be with out suspended midfielder Nicolas Raskin for the sport in opposition to Tony Docherty’s facet.
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Rangers supervisor Philippe Clement tells Sky Sports activities Information there are totally different causes for his or her poor away kind within the Scottish Premiership this season
“Final season, we had in huge spells, 10/12, gamers out.
“Now we have four for sure. OK, Jack also, but that’s an accident. It’s not really an injury. It’s a contact injury. And some of the others are also contact injuries. that’s part of football.
“The tough factor is, it is multi functional place.
“So that’s a difficulty for every club in the world. You cannot predict that and it is not possible to have seven centre-backs in your squad.
“So we’ve got by no means been in a scenario this season that we’ve got had 12 accidents on the similar time and the membership additionally labored actually laborious to strengthen some departments.
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“So we got a really good physio from Aberdeen with Kevin (Bain), which we made changes in the performance department.
“So there are actually good steps made in that method, so we can’t examine with the scenario that was final season.
“It’s about finding solutions and that’s what we’ve been doing in the last couple of weeks.
“For instance, placing Ridvan Yilmaz at proper full-back and him doing a extremely good job there.
“So we need to be creative, to have the good level with the defence and not to concede the goals that we conceded against Hibs on the two set pieces.
“I must make selections round that, additionally in direction of this recreation, as a result of it is also one of many strengths of Dundee.”
