Oscar Cortes only just returning to the Rangers team, Philippe Clement has suggested the winger has sustained another injury problem. “Oscar would’ve been on the bench but he had a small problem yesterday evening, not in training,” explained Clement. ”We need to assess that in the next couple of days.”comes after goals from Hamza Igamane, Leon Balogun and Cyriel Dessers eventually put a desperate Dons side to the sword.Heading into the game, the absences of several Rangers first-team stars from the matchday squad turned heads amongst the Gers support.
With Rabbi Matondo, Oscar Cortes and Kieran Dowell all excluded from the selection, it had some asking transfer and injury questions around all three players.Speaking after the match, Philippe Clement moved to clarify the situation first on Rabbi Matondo and explained that it was a purely ‘sportive’ decision.
Claiming the attacker has been demoted, the Rangers manager suggested that both Zak Lovelace and Bailey Rice are ‘performing better’ than the ex-Schalke winger in training.
The comments come after Rangers News exclusively revealed earlier in the day that Matondo is in negotiations to leave Rangers on loan this summer.
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