Rangers: Kemar Roofe set for return

A chunk of early groups information has emerged forward of Glasgow Rangers’ conflict with Dundee at Ibrox within the League Cup tonight…

What’s the newest?

Gentle Blues supervisor Giovanni van Bronckhorst has revealed that striker Kemar Roofe will play a component within the match, making his first look of the season.

Academy graduate Alex Lowry, who suffered an harm for the B Crew earlier this season, can be closing in on his comeback to the senior squad.

Talking in his pre-match press convention on Tuesday, the pinnacle coach mentioned: “Lowry is taking part in at the moment with the B-Crew to provide him minutes, he’s near a return to play with the primary crew. Roofe is within the squad for tomorrow, he’s prepared for minutes which we are going to attempt to give him.”

Massive enhance for Rangers

Roofe’s return could possibly be an enormous enhance for van Bronckhorst for this match and the upcoming video games within the Champions League and the Premiership.

The previous Leeds United marksman has been out of motion for 19 matches this time period, after lacking 13 video games within the entirety of the 2021/22 marketing campaign.

He is probably not match sufficient to begin tonight, given his full lack of involvement in a aggressive recreation since 2021/22, however he might make an affect off the bench earlier than being an choice to begin within the weeks to come back.

Final season, he scored three objectives in two League Cup matches and has discovered the again of the web six occasions in ten home cup appearances since becoming a member of Rangers in 2020.

The ahead is a confirmed goalscorer and is somebody van Bronckhorst can depend on to offer a objective risk in video games. He has scored 34 occasions in 72 outings for the membership within the final two campaigns, though there are query marks over his effectiveness in build-up play as he has solely registered 5 assists in that point.

Roofe plundered 12 strikes from 13 begins within the Premiership and Europa League mixed final season and this reveals that he has the standard to be an everyday goalscorer for the crew.

Due to this fact, having him again for this recreation, and certainly upcoming matches, could possibly be an enormous enhance for the supervisor. The Jamaica worldwide has the standard so as to add firepower off the bench or from the beginning for the Gentle Blues.

The Gers head coach will even be delighted to have Lowry again within the close to future because the proficient teen has proven loads of promise in his brief profession to date. He has scored two objectives and offered two assists in seven first-team outings for the membership, which means that he could possibly be a helpful choice to name upon when he’s again in competition.