According to Roger Hannah and Robert Grieve, Cyriel Dessers was benched as part of some “major” Rangers team news after upsetting his management in the middle of the week.
When the regular starting striker was left out of the starting lineup after his strange exit from the 4-0 victory over FCSB on Thursday, October 24, the two Scottish Sun journalists responded via X to the Gers’ lineup for their match against St Mirren on October 27.
Grieve and Hannah think the manager wasn’t pleased when Dessers, 29, left the Europa League game and went straight down the tunnel, alleging that he had been poked in the eye. This forced Clement to bring on Hamza Igamane, who scored his first goal for the team.
Grieve stated: “Dessers complained of an eye problem during the midweek European match and left the field, but it seemed the manager wasn’t very pleased.”
“Yeah, I thought the manager wasn’t very happy,” Hannah continued. Hamza Igmane will be encouraged and start today after coming on and scoring the team’s first goal.
James Tavernier, the Rangers captain, also dropped
After a difficult season thus far, Clement appears to have finally produced the lineup that many supporters have been clamoring for.
Feyenoord loanee Neraysho Kasanwirjo is finally given the opportunity to make an impression right away after James Tavernier is dropped from the starting lineup for the first time, despite the fact that his form is much below his best and supporters want him replaced.
The two are once again paired with Mohamed Diomande in a better position than them as a result of Tom Lawrence’s injury during the European triumph and the outstanding alliance Connor Barron formed with the returned Nico Raskin against the Romanians.
Even though St. Mirren shouldn’t be the most difficult opponent, Rangers will hope that they can begin to establish more control in midfield as they are all too frequently played through with easy.
Given the abundance of striker alternatives surrounding him, Dessers has done a respectable job of scoring goals over the past year, but he has generated conflicting reactions from both supporters and commentators.
Given that the Nigerian’s play veers so frequently between impressive and frustrating, it may come as no surprise that Igamane has been given a second Rangers start.
It is unlikely that Dessers’ eye problem would be a long-term problem because he was obviously angry about it in the middle of the week and Clement stated he apologized afterwards [Rangers Review, October 24].
Igamane has a significant chance to build on his first goal and stake a claim, regardless of whether the Belgian’s choice to bench the senior player was motivated by that or more by the need to rest his striker before the pivotal trip to Pittodrie on October 30 to play Aberdeen.
A senior Light Blues player has been informed that he must permanently leave Rangers, according to other Rangers news.