John Souttar has been dominated out till after the winter break following surgical procedure as Rangers head to Tynecastle on Saturday with Tom Lawrence nonetheless sidelined.
Souttar has featured simply as soon as since shifting to Ibrox in the summertime after signing a pre-contract final January to maneuver from Hearts and that got here on the opening league weekend of the season when he was substituted off within the 67th minute of the win over Livingston.
The highest flight will shut down in mid-November earlier than resuming a month later and it’s a blow to the defender and Gers. Souttar hasn't had his damage troubles to hunt throughout his profession thus far, twice rupturing his Achilles throughout six years at Tynecastle, in addition to struggling earlier hip and ankle damage which mixed noticed him sidelined for over two-and-a-half years.
Now boss Giovanni van Bronckhorst has revealed that the 26-year-old Scotland stopper received’t be accessible for choice till after the winter break with Filip Helander in the identical boat.
Lawrence can be unavailable to face Souttar’s previous membership however Ben Davies is within the squad whereas Kemar Roofe has additionally returned to coaching. The Gentle Blues journey throughout the M8 to tackle Robbie Neilson’s Jambos in a lunchtime kick off the place a win for the guests can be them high of the Scottish Premiership forward of champions and rivals Celtic kicking off later.
Van Bronckhorst stated: "We'll count on John Souttar after the World Cup. That’s very long run and it’s the identical for Filip Helander. I don’t know the timescale for his damage.
“I've lots of sympathy for John. He has the issues he had earlier than. He introduced the issues with him when he modified groups. We'd like for him to be operated on once more and he feels a lot better now. It’s all the time higher to play with out ache and it’s the primary time in lots of months he's pain-free so hopefully that’s the top of the tough occasions he has had and he can get again to full health.
“There aren't any new accidents. All of the gamers who had been on worldwide responsibility are match to characteristic. Other than the gamers we had again earlier than the break we don’t have another gamers again. Tom Lawrence continues to be not accessible."
“Ben Davies is again within the squad. Kemar Roofe is coaching bit components of the coaching periods now so we have to hold assessing him and see what he's again. Hopefully that’s sooner quite than later – each for Kemar and me as a coach."
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