Glasgow Rangers shall be trying to return to profitable methods within the Premiership this afternoon, in any other case it will likely be one other marketing campaign with out a league title.
The Boxing Day defeat to St Mirren means the Ibrox facet now trails Celtic by a staggering 12 factors, with over half the season nonetheless to be performed.
Philippe Clement is definitely a person underneath critical stress and a number of other of his beginning XI let him down towards the Buddies, most notably Nedim Bajrami.
Nedim Bajrami’s sport in numbers vs St Mirren
The Albanian midfielder was deployed in his most well-liked place as a quantity ten on Thursday, but it surely’s honest to say his efficiency was a large disappointment.
All through the primary half, he accomplished simply 11 passes, took 22 touches and received zero duels. Going ahead, Bajrami did not even register a shot at purpose whereas failing to succeed along with his solely dribble try.
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St Mirren vs Rangers – Key stats |
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Stat |
Highest Ranked |
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Correct passes |
Dujon Sterling (74) |
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Key passes |
Hamza Igamane (4) |
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Tackles |
Richard Taylor (5) |
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Floor duels received |
Mohamed Diomande(7) |
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Photographs on course |
Danilo (3) |
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Through Sofascore |
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It was no shock to see him subbed off after simply 45 minutes as he was changed by Danilo, who scored the membership’s solely purpose of the night.
Towards Motherwell, the previous Sassuolo midfielder should be dropped, and this might imply Mohamed Diomande is relocated to an attacking midfield position.
With this modification, Nicolas Raskin will come again into the beginning XI after dropping to the bench for the midweek conflict, and it may very well be a change which works wonders for the Gentle Blues towards the Steelmen.
Why Nico Raskin should be unleashed towards Motherwell
With Diomande shifting to a extra superior position this afternoon, there’s a free house subsequent to Connor Barron which Raskin might fill with ease, particularly contemplating how spectacular the Belgian has been over the previous couple of weeks.
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The £19k-per-week gem has emerged as one in every of Clement’s most constant performers not too long ago, cementing his place within the beginning XI.
Within the high flight this time period, Raskin has averaged a 90% cross success fee together with profitable 65% of his complete duels and averaging 3.3 tackles per sport. This tenacious facet to his sport is one in every of Raskin’s most interesting qualities and will turn out to be useful towards Properly at this time.
A couple of years in the past, journalist Bob Faesen lavished reward on the younger participant as he was making his breakthrough with Customary Liege, saying:
“He’s nonetheless solely 19, however he has actually shone. He’s a box-to-box midfielder. He can play in each place in the midst of the park. He’s technically gifted, however he’s additionally a little bit of a pitbull.”
These qualities have proven by over the previous couple of months because the midfielder has lastly damaged into Clement’s beginning XI and is delivering on his huge potential.
Slotting him in alongside Barron will permit the Ibrox facet to dictate the play towards Properly, making certain that the facet may have management of the ball for almost all of the sport.
Three factors is all that issues, particularly with an Previous Agency conflict developing on January 2nd.
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