Michael Beale is looking for more of the same from last weekend's triumph over Celtic when Rangers take on Hibs.
Todd Cantwell, John Souttar and Fashion Sakala and were all on hand to dump their rivals at Ibrox by three goals to nil in a game that handed Beale his first derby win over Ange Postecoglou and co who had already been crowned Scottish Premiership champions. Yet Beale spoke of finishing the season strong at Ibrox and face a Hibs side who need to be flawless in their final three games to have any sliver of finishing third.
Rangers meanwhile will be looking for the final standings to be as short of a gap as possible, with Celtic dropping to a 2-2 draw with St Mirren on Saturday. Beale also hinted there could be opportunities for fringe stars, as he did against their rivals last weekend, with some key players such as Connor Goldson missing.
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He said: “In terms of the young players, we’ve lost Bailey Rice and Zak Lovelace to international duty with Scotland and England Under-17s, at the Euros.
“So there will be one or two others get an opportunity. There’s players that have been injured for big parts of the season that need an opportunity as well and we are going to need everyone.
“We probably have 16 players to get us through the last three games next week: Saturday, Wednesday, Saturday.
“We want to end the season well. We know the teams we are playing this week are still in the hunt for European places, so they are not slowing down.
“It is important for us that after two home wins against Aberdeen and Celtic that we back that up this weekend.”
Rangers starting XI: McCrorie, Tavernier, Souttar, King, Yilmaz, Jack, Lundstram, Raskin, Hagi, Cantwell, Sakala
Subs: McGregor, McLaughlin, Matondo, Arfield, Devine, Lowry, McCausland, Lyall, Ure
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