Cyriel Dessers wants Rangers boozer recommendations as striker's mates plan Celtic Park winner toast

Cyriel Dessers' mates have arrived in Glasgow and are looking for a boozer to watch the Old Firm clash thanks to the away fans’ ban at Parkhead.

Which is just another reason for the rejuvenated Rangers striker, who has taken his goal tally to nine, to make sure they aren’t drowning their sorrows by mid-afternoon. The Nigeria international knows shut-out Ibrox support will be pouring into pubs or crowding round tellies at lunchtime, desperate to see their team win on enemy soil without them - just as Celtic did at Ibrox in September.

And although he and his team-mates are going into a lions’ den with 60,000 home fans baying for blood, Dessers is convinced Philippe Clement’s side has the belief and mentality to zone out from the bedlam and concentrate on delivering a famous victory. “I think we will be able to block it out,” he said. “A game with these circumstances and this build up during the week, you will be fired up as a player. Of course, the fans can give you an extra boost, but we will be ready without our fans. We know how it is and what we can expect, so we will be ready.

“This is our job and we cannot have excuses like this. We need to do our job and focus on that, and on what we can control, and that’s on the pitch.

“I expect an intense afternoon. I actually like it. We played a couple of weeks ago in Seville and I like these nights when everyone is against you. I think our team likes it as well. Rangers have a good experience in European away games so we are looking forward to it.”

Dessers has been thrust into the limelight as the only fit Rangers striker, due to injuries sustained by Danilo and Kemar Roofe. And after a decidedly dodgy start to his career in Scotland, the former Feyenoord attacker is finding