Rangers have confirmed goalkeeper Steven Simonsen is likely to miss Saturdays Scottish Cup clash with Dumbarton despite an improvement in his condition. The English shot-stopper was carried off on a stretcher after colliding with the post during the 1-0 League Cup win over St Johnstone. The 35-year-old suffered swelling on the left side of his face and was taken to a hospital for further treatement. And while in better shape, Lee Robinson is expected to start in goal at the weekend. Steve’s as well as we could have hoped for. The scan showed positive results and I saw him last night, McCoist told his clubs website. He clearly had a big swelling on the left-hand side of his head which thankfully has gone down a little bit today. He’s a serious doubt for Saturday. And McCoist has backed Robinson to step up to the challenge. He’s a confident lad and more importantly, he’s a very good goalkeeper. We’ve got faith in him to do a job for us and we’re happy with him, said the Rangers manager. We wouldn’t have signed him if that wasn’t the case and looking back now, that’s maybe turned out not to be the worst decision we’ve made this season. He added: I did go on record as saying it’s a vital – if not the most important – position on the park and with the injury to Cammy, we felt we had to get cover. Lee has certainly given us that and it looks as though bringing him in was a good call because the injury to Steve could lead to him playing on Saturday. ((Natalie))
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:11:10 +0000