Rangers’ Philippe Clement Fires Up Title Race Response as Celtic’s Rivals Get Firm Dressing Room Reminder

Rangers’ Philippe Clement Fires Up Title Race Response as Celtic’s Rivals Get Firm Dressing Room Reminder

As his team approaches the top slot, the Belgian was taking more questions about their hopes for the championship.

Any possibility that Rangers manager Philippe Clement was turning his attention away from Celtic and the title run-in was laughed aside.

Before the crucial Scottish Premiership match against Aberdeen, the Belgian stressed that no player in the Ibrox dressing room should be glancing at Brendan Rodgers’ team. Due to Celtic’s error at Pittodrie, if they can defeat the Dons by a three-goal margin on Tuesday, they will be able to quickly climb to the top of the table.

Despite the joy among the fans, Clement dismissed the hype around the title. When asked if the conversation had reached the locker room and about even the scores with Celtic, he laughed: “No. I hope not in the dressing room, also, but not in my thoughts. It is about yourself and thinking about the next game. It is not about thinking in the next weeks and months (as a player) – that is my job to think about integrating all the players back into the squad.”

Rangers: Ryan won’t be playing for them Jack, who is on rest, will face Neil Warnock’s Dons as his first opponent. When asked if the veteran manager’s presence affected his preparations, Jack responded as follows: “No, because we are ready for every scenario. Things can change during games and we have been training on lots of things. It is no difference for us.”

Fabio Silva, meantime, praised Clement’s influence and loved his maiden goal in light blue. The Wolves loanee is eager to continue his scoring run. He declared: “I’m very happy to get the goal, everyone knows striker enjoys goals. For me though it’s about how I can help the team with my movement and when we don’t have the ball. The most important thing is the results. It gives me a lot of extra confidence to get the goal, I hope to get more goals and assists. There is a lot of games so it is impossible to play all of the games, it is good for the coach to have different options.

“Everything is nice here, I am very happy to be here. I feel I am improving each game. The dressing room is amazing, as are the staff and with the fans we have it is a special environment. The coach prepares us in training for things to be more natural in games. Everyone is involved and working for us to win.

Silva also acknowledges that he had to put in a lot of effort to get off to a strong start against Livingston and to produce well against clubs that come to Ibrox with a lot of depth. He continued, saying: “It was a physical game with not a lot of space to work in, we have to manage this and it is up to me to be prepared – the coach works with us on this also.”

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