Rangers injury tracker for Celtic with Goldson and Lundstram timeline named as Philippe Clement 'avoids' one thing

Connor Goldson and John Lundstram are poised to be pitched into the Old Firm frenzy after coming through Rangers final training session ahead of their trip to Parkhead at lunchtime.

And while Gers boss Philippe Clement refused to confirm they would both start - insisting he’d wait to see if there was an reaction to being put their paces - the availability of the experienced defender and midfielder would be a massive boost as his team faces the prospect of taking on the league leaders and 60,000 of their fans with no backing of their own. Clement said: “Connor trained, so we will assess tomorrow what to do with that. He did train. I will make my decisions tomorrow after watching back the training and after speaking with the doc and the medical staff.

“Lunny trained, so we will see. I don’t want to say now that ‘yes, there’s a chance’ and then tomorrow he’s not in the selection – and people will say he was playing games. That I want to avoid. I don’t like to play games and to say that somebody is in and then this afternoon he feels a reaction from the training and we are not going to make a stupid risk and lose players for the rest of the season. It is better to make this assessment tomorrow and then it is clear.”

It is equally clear that Clement, unbeaten in 16 games as Rangers boss, believes his team can handle the heat that will be generated at Celtic Park. He added: “I don’t see a difference for my players because we have been to Seville and they were also not all behind us and there were also a lot of people.

“Of course, we had some fans there but the players go to play games and win games because they are ambitious. You have seen in the last couple of weeks an ambitious team in all the different circumstances.