The glamour tie of the Europa League draw is finally upon Rangers with Man Utd providing the opposition on matchday seven of the new format.
Old Trafford will have nearly 4,000 members of the Ibrox faithful have braved a severe weather warning to be in attendance, legally, in what is one of the hottest tickets of the season.
It didn’t look like Philippe Clement would still be the manager by the time this fixture came around, but he has named his Rangers team to take on a Man Utd side under even more scrutiny than his own.
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Options are limited in that the Gers boss has eight key players missing from the match day squad.
John Souttar, Mohamed Diomande, Oscar Cortes, Danilo and Ianis Hagi in particular will be sorely missed in terms of the depth that they would have brought.
Clement will be glad to have the experience and presence of Jack Butland back in goals as well as the experienced duo of James Tavernier and Leon Balogun.
Robin Propper has saved his best Rangers performances for Europe and he will need to be at his best against the likes of Amad Diallo and Bruno Fernandes.
Midfield picks itself, not on form, but because of who is available.
The Nicolas Raskin and Connor Barron partnership has featured regularly on Thursday nights and they will play a major role in keeping Man Utd at bay as well as getting Rangers on the front foot.
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With no Diomande or Hagi, and Tom Lawrence only just back in training, Nedim Bajrami gets the chance to prove that he is worthy of his £3.4m transfer fee.
Hamza Igamane and Vaclav Cerny come back into the starting XI and are joined on the left by Ridvan Yilmaz.
The Turkey international might be out of position, but his style of play, aggression and pace make him a natural fit for Clement’s system and this type of game.
Hopefully, the first XI can get off to a good start, because there isn’t much to look at it Clement has to turn to his bench.
There can’t be many complaints about a team almost every fan could have picked.
