Philippe Clement: Focussed On Performance

MANAGER Philippe Clement said focus is on his squad’s performance as they get back to action against Hibernian in the Scottish Premiership tomorrow afternoon.

It’s been four weeks since Rangers’ last league outing, and Clement says the challenge for his side is not to forget the progress made in recent months as he encouraged them to continue showing the right performance and mentality.

Speaking to the media at this afternoon’s pre-match press conference, he said: “It is about us, it is about performing and focusing on our performance, if we perform well then the points follow.

“It is all about showing the right mentality, which they have shown in the last couple of months, and showing what we can do together on and off the pitch.

“Today was the first day we had all the players back together because Cyriel and Fabio played on Tuesday evening, and they had a lot of travelling to do so they could not train on Thursday to be fit for the game.

“It was the first time today so in that way it is always exciting because I always see our story together like a book. I talked about that in the past and every week we are writing new pages together, but it is important they don't forget the pages we wrote together before in the way that we play football and in the way of what they need to do together on the pitch.

“It seems like months ago that we played together. That is my feeling, so I want to see that they didn't forget anything tomorrow, that is the challenge.”

Clement has welcomed Dujon Sterling, Kieran Dowell, Abdallah Sima and Ross McCausland back to training, but will be missing Ridvan, Ryan Jack, Oscar Cortes and Danilo for tomorrow’s match.

When asked about the return of Sima, Clement continued: “It is important because he has been out for a long time so you cannot expect miracles from the start. He has shown his quality, his power, his pace, he has the appetite for goals, and he came back in a good way in training so that is positive. It is now building rhythm again and making him stronger again and then he is going to play an important part in these last few months.”

On Hibs, Clement continued: “Hibs are a good footballing team, they create a lot of chances, score a lot of goals, I think third most in the league and they are really hungry to beat us.

“I feel it more every time we play against each other that hunger and desire becomes bigger. That is my feeling around that, so we need to see a really good Rangers team and we need to feel a really good support from the fans to play a really strong game to win against them.

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