Philippe Clement insists Rangers’ fans pyro show disrupted their rhythm on a stop-start night at Dens Park but saluted his side for their five-star show that maintained his perfect Premiership start to life at Ibrox.
The Belgian was delighted with his side’s display against Dundee with five different scorers all on target to send the Light Blues into Sunday’s Viaplay Cup semi-final against Hearts on a high.
But it was a night of high drama on Tayside with kick off delayed for 45 minutes due to the Rangers team bus being stuck in traffic and then when the match eventually did get underway Kevin Clancy was forced to halt it after just a couple of minutes due to pyro in the away end which caused a fire alarm to go off.
Clement didn’t use either as an excuse but admitted his own support didn’t help on a night when Ryan Jack, Danilo, Cyriel Dessers, Sam Hammers and James Tavernier, for the penalty spot, all scored.