Sources: Significant Rangers update on Connor Goldson, Ryan Jack and Ben Davies injuries
Rangers have been handed a huge double boost by Connor Goldson and Ben Davies, sources have told Football Insider.
Goldson, 29, was feared to be out for months after hobbling out of Wednesday’s 7-1 thrashing by Liverpool with a thigh injury and filmed leaving the ground on crutches.
His centre-back colleague Davies, 27, also suffered an injury during the midweek Ibrox humiliation.
But scans have showed the pair have not been as badly injured as first feared and the club’s medical staff have delivered upbeat bulletins to manager Giovanni van Bronckhorst.
Goldson’s thigh injury is expected to sideline him for weeks rather than months and he could be back before the season’s mid-November cut-off.
Davies is in contention to start Sunday’s 12pm Scottish Premiership clash against Motherwell.
But Ryan Jack is expected to miss out after limping out of the Liverpool match with the latest injury of his injury-plagued Rangers career.
Van Bronckhorst and his coaching team are assessing their options as they look to deal with the physical and psychological fall-out of Wednesday night.
The defensive ranks are already depleted with John Souttar and Filip Helander out with long-term injuries.
It means that Davies is the only senior centre-back currently fit, with Leon King still only 18 and learning his trade.
John Lundstram and James Sands could be re-deployed at centre-back, while another Ibrox man, the academy product Lewis Mayo, is currently on loan at Kilmarnock.