CLEMENT: MOVING TO OUR GOALS STEP BY STEP

PHILIPPE CLEMENT believes his squad are moving towards their goals ‘step by step’ as they rounded-off pre-season with a 4-4 draw away to Union Berlin this afternoon.

Tom Lawrence and Cyriel Dessers both netted doubles, and Clement says he can see his team growing each week.

Speaking to RangersTV at full-time, Clement said: “There were a lot of good things in this game, defensively we need to do things better but that is normal with new players who are coming in.

“They are young, so they will learn a lot out of this and it’s also good for players coming out of injury that they could have game time.

“You see the team grow, and you see it week by week, that is what we aim for and that is what we work hard for with all the squad to make them better – we are step by step going towards our goal.

“There were some real team goals, with good combination play and good finishing so it is really important. We had some other good actions also where the goalkeeper has had a few good saves.

“It is important to have offensive players who have stats, and it is important in the number 10 role that you have somebody who is in the right positions and making the right runs.

“In the way we play football you always get the chances to score. Tom did that role brilliantly today, so I am really pleased about the way he played not only with the ball but without the ball.”

Clement says it is now key to continue to get stronger, on an individual level with players returning from injury and as a team, as focus turns to Saturday’s Scottish Premiership opening match against Hearts.

He added: “We are taking the right steps and we cannot do miracles. We knew with Danilo and Oscar Cortes, if you come from that far away.