Cyriel Dessers handed Rangers defence from Michael Beale after star jeered by own fans at Ibrox

Michael Beale backed Rangers striker Cyriel Dessers to come good at Ibrox - despite being JEERED by his own fans.

The £4.5 million Nigerian had a poor game in Gers’ 4-0 victory over Livingston yesterday. Dessers failed to get on the score-sheet and gifted the visitors a chance to score in the second half. The front-man - who only arrived from Cremonese this summer - was the subject of groans from a large section of the Ibrox support before being hooked by Beale with his side 1-0 up. Rangers eventually went on to win comfortably thanks to late goals from Danilo, Abdellah Sima and Kieran Dowell. Dessers got his first goal for the club in their midweek Champions League qualifying victory over Servette.

And Beale is adamant that he’ll be a success at the club. He said: “You can see that Cyriel has come off not having a pre-season. And he missed the last two months of last season as well through injury. He scored in midweek and was heavily involved in our first goal today. Listen, we want a lot from these players.

“But his goal against Servette will do him the world of good and we’re still tinkering things up front. Cyriel will be fine here.”

Beale was pleased with certain parts of his side’s performance against Livi. They picked up their first Premiership win of the season but it was only secured late on. After what he described as a ‘rough week, the manager said: “The game was in three parts. The first part, we started well and scored a good first goal. But after Jose Cifuentes’ goal was ruled out, we slowed down and got stuffy.

“We spoke about it but didn’t improve until the subs came on. Part of our play was wasteful when we had good moments after our approach to the final third. There was tension in the stadium