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Rangers Europa League squad revealed as Juninho Bacuna added but defender drops out

Rangers have announced their squad for the group stage of the Europa League.

The Gers are set to take on Lyon, Sparta Prague and Brondby.

The most notable player missing from the squad is central defender Jack Simpson.

The 24-year-old was signed from Bournemouth in January and has failed to land a permanent starting spot in the Rangers starting XI.

In total, Simpson has featured eight times for Rangers since his move from the south coast, but has only tasted action once this campaign, coming in Rangers' comfortable League Cup victory against Dunfermline Athletic.

New signing Juninho Bacuna was listed as part of Rangers' squad for the upcoming six matches.

Signed from Championship side Huddersfield Town, the 24-year-old Curacao international will have his chance to impress on the European stage.

Steven Gerrard will be hoping his side can emulate the success had in the competition in recent seasons.

Ryan Jack was also named in Steven Gerrad's squad for the Europa League possibly indicating that his return from injury might not be far away.

Steven Gerrard recently spoke about the return of Jack to the first team fold at Rangers, he said: "He's getting closer and closer, but we need to be patient with him.

"He's missed a lot of football but he's one that we're really looking forward to having back.

"Ryan's a standard setter and someone who we've missed this season."

Rangers Europa League squad in full

* - denotes player B list (academy trained)

Goalkeepers

Allan McGregor

Robby McCrorie

Jon McLaughlin

Jay Hogarth*

Kieran Wright

Lewis Budinauckas*

Jack Mcconnell*

Defenders

James Tavernier

Connor Goldson

Filip Helander

Calvin Bassey

Borna Barisic

Nathan Patterson*

Leon Balogun

Leon King*

Lewis MacKinnon*

Kyle McClelland*

Adam Devine*

Jack Harkness*

Kelsey Ewen*

Harley Ewen*

Zak McKay*

Kristian Webster*

Midfielders

John Lundstram

Ianis Hagi

Ryan Jack

Steven Davis

Ryan Kent

Joe Aribo

Glen Kamara

Juninho Bacuna

Stephen Kelly*

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Scott Arfield

Alex Lowry*

Cole McKinnon*

Murray Miller*

Robbie Fraser*

Connor Allan*

Mackenzie Strachan*

Leyton Dunlop*

Forwards

Alfredo Morelos

Scott Wright

Kemar Roofe

Christopher McKee*

Arron Lyall*

Ross McCausland*

Robbie Ure*

Tyler Pasnik*

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