Beaming Clement salutes multiple Rangers heroes as Cerny, Jefte, Tavernier, Sterling and Dessers talked up

Philippe Clement urged the Rangers fans to raise the roof at Hampden in their return against Dynamo Kyiv - as he piled praise on Cyriel Dessers for putting them into pole position for the Champions League play off round.

The much-maligned Nigeria struck with virtually the last kick of the game in Poland to earn a 1-1 draw against the Ukrainian side and ensure it’s all to play for in the return in Glasgow. Clement was delighted for his front man, not short of critics, and said: “I’m happy for Cyriel that he scored the goal. If you compare him to seven months ago, he does many more things really well for the team. Maybe people have a perception about him but I know defenders don’t like to play against him and he’s only growing. That’s what we want.

“Now it's about getting all our fans behind us in Hampden Park to make the difference and we have this 12th player on the pitch with all the noise they can make and push my team forward to qualify. It’s going to be a really big night and I hope our fans make so much noise that the roof comes off.”

Gers were trailing at the break when Jefte was brought on and Clement praised the young Brazilian, along with new signing Vaclav Cerny who set up the leveller after coming off the bench. The Belgian said: “The half time message was to continue the good things we were doing and improve where we could, our pressing, organisation, calmness on the ball and finding the right spaces. We showed them images of that like we always do. They take the lessons really well. We’re in this rebuild and in those circumstances it’s good to get this result with the fitness of players like Vaclac coming straight from his holidays - he trained four times - and Dujon after injury trained once and Tav has