Solid Start Pleases Goldson

CONNOR GOLDSON has been delighted with Rangers' solid defensive displays so far in 2020/21 and after four clean sheets in four league games he is hoping for more of the same against Kilmarnock at Ibrox this weekend.

27-year-old Goldson has been an impressive performer in all of the Light Blues' Premiership fixtures this season - against Aberdeen, St Mirren, St Johnstone and Livingston - and speaking at this morning's Zoom press conference at the club's training centre, he gave his thoughts on why the team has not been conceding goals.

He said: "Hard work over pre-season. Obviously, we kept quite a lot for clean sheets last year and we've started the season well defensively.

"How long can we keep it going? I don't know, but we'll try to do our best to keep another one on Saturday. But you never know - goals can be scored at any moment in a game but as long as we concentrate and try to limit the opposition's chances then we've got a good chance.

"Obviously we know that if you keep a clean sheet you only need one goal to win a game of football.

"It's good to be keeping them and we're all happy with how it's going, but we know it is very early in the season and there are a lot more games to come."

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Goldson has enjoyed playing alongside Leon Balogun and Flip Helander in Rangers' league games so far this term, having also partnered George Edmundson in the centre of defence in pre-season matches.

He explained: "I feel like now at the club we have five really good centre-halves. Niko is unfortunately injured but I think you can see the quality and no matter who plays it's a position that we've got a lot of depth in.

"In the last few games I've been playing with Fil and we all know what Fil is - he is a great defender. He is experienced and calm, and he's not someone I need to worry about being next to. I can just let him play his own game and know that he will be the steady Eddie next to me.

"I think you saw against Bayer Leverkusen he hadn't played a full 90 minutes in six or nine months and he looked like he had been playing week in week out. So I'm happy with whoever I play next to and I'm just lucky that at the moment I have got a shirt myself."

Having enjoyed a positive start to the season personally, Connor is looking forward to this weekend's big game against Kilmarnock.

He added: "We've had a good week of training. It's been good and the boys have worked hard. There has been real quality in the sessions and it's given the new boys a chance to train with the whole team. Before that I don't even think they had a real training session with the boys that were playing, so it's let us understand them and them understand us more.

"I feel if we can get a win tomorrow and next week against Hamilton then it's been a good start to the season."