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Danny Rohl names his starting line-up to face the Dark Blues in their latest Scottish Premiership clash at Dens Park
Danny Rohl has named his Rangers starting XI to face strugglers Dundee in this afternoon’s Premiership showdown at Dens Park in Tayside (3pm BST).
The German boss have win each of his two league games in charge so far and will hope to make that three against the Dark Blues, who continue to languish towards the foot of the table.
However, Steven Pressley’s men shocked defending champions Celtic on home soil a few weeks ago and will be eager to prove that their 4-0 mauling at the hands of current leaders Hearts last time out was just a mere blip.
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Rohl has made FOUR changes to his Rangers team from the side that lost 2-0 at home to Italian giants Roma on Thursday night.
Derek Cornelius gets the nod over Wolves loanee Nasser Djiga to start at centre-back, while Mohamed Diomande takes over from Connor Barron in midfield. Danilo and Bojan Miovski replace Max Aarons and Youssef Chermiti in attack.
Midfielder Barron is back in the matchday squad after serving a one-match suspension during last weekend’s Old Firm League Cup semi-final at Hampden, as does forgotten attacker Nedim Bajrami.
What has Danny Rohl said pre-match?
“Sunday is a different kind of game, I think against Roma you're a bit more the underdog, now you're more the favourite, you have to win this game. It's clear we want to go there, we want to win this game, and we will face a team who will put everything in to make it as hard as possible, and we have to find a solution, we need fresh legs as well, I think there's not too much time between the two games, but I'm confident we can go again.
“This morning we spoke about the Roma game, what we have to improve on, the performance, to understand where we are at the moment, there are some things we have to improve very soon.
“And then it's about the next game, I think now we want to try to have three wins in a row in the league, it would be fantastic if we could go to the international break with that.
“But for this we have to work hard, we have to face our opponent, who knows what they have to do against big teams having beat Celtic at home 2-0, and we have to be careful of course.”
Here's your confirmed starting XI’s ahead of today’s league encounter in the City of Discovery...
Rangers XI:
Jack Butland; James Tavernier (C), John Souttar, Derek Cornelius, Jayden Meghoma, Mohamed Diomande, Nicolas Raskin, Mikey Moore, Danilo, Djeidi Gassama, Bojan Miovski.
SUBS: Liam Kelly (GK), Nasser Djiga, Max Aarons, Connor Barron, Nedim Bajrami, Oliver Antman, Thelo Aasgaard, Lyall Cameron, Findlay Curtis.
Dundee XI:
Jon McCracken; Ryan Astley, Billy Koumetio, Drey Wright, Paul Digby (C), Emile Acquah, Imari Samuels, Tony Yogane, Cameron Congreve, Luke Graham, Ethan Hamilton.
SUBS: Kieran O’Hara (GK), Ethan Ingram, Aaron Donnelly, Ashley Hay, Simon Murray, Charlie Reilly, Joe Westley, Callum Jones.
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