Rangers manager Philippe Clement has revealed Neraysho Kasanwirjo could be out for the rest of the season following knee surgery.
The 22-year-old on-loan Feyenoord defender, known as ‘Nana’, suffered the injury playing for the Netherlands Under-21s against England and has missed the last three Rangers fixtures.
Following the 1-0 Scottish Premiership win over St Johnstone at McDiarmid Park, Clement said: “Nana’s operation was good, but he will be at least out for four to six months. So we cannot count on him, so we will see at the end of the season how things go.
“We have the agreement with Feyenoord that he will do his rehab there, but I stay in touch with Nana, who was really disappointed not to continue the work he’s been doing, because he loves the club, he loves the dressing room, even loves the staff – that doesn’t happen so much. So we will see at the end of the season how it will be with him, but we cannot count on him in the next couple of months.”
Rangers travelled to Perth on the back of a stunning 4-1 Europa League win at Nice on Thursday night which took them a step closer to qualification to the knockout stages but yet again there was a drop in performance in the league.
Clement, however, claimed Josh Rae’s performance prevented the Light Blues racking up a more impressive scoreline. The Saints keeper made several saves before and after an own goal in the 63rd minute by former Rangers midfielder Jason Holt.
Clement said: “It was a good performance today, only thing we missed is to score the second, third or fourth goal to finish off the game earlier and to kill the belief with the opponent, which we did well against Nice. But we have to say also, there was a really good goalkeeper on the other side.
Callum McGregor believes Celtic’s strength in depth was evident in the 5-0 thrashing of Ross County. Brendan Rodgers made six changes following the creditable 1-1 Champions League draw with Club Brugge on Wednesday night and four of them – Liam Scales, Luke McCowan, Paulo Bernardo and Adam Idah – scored in the first half along with the Hoops skipper as the rampant leaders wrapped up the points by the interval.
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Jack Hamilton replaced injured County goalkeeper Ross Laidlaw just before the break and he prevented a more damaging score-line with a series of good saves, but there was no doubting Celtic’s superiority.
“The guys that have been coming into the games have made a huge impact for us,” said Callum McGregor. “We make a few changes and the level is super high again. Brilliant energy, brilliant quality, summed up by Luke McCowan. He gets his goal and a few assists as well. But that’s we want, everybody to come in and work as hard as they can for the team and produce those moments. And like I said, we’re all in it together.”
