Philippe Clement is happy to have a selection headache after Rangers closed the gap on cinch Premiership leaders Celtic with a commanding 3-0 win over Hibernian.
Defender Ridvan Yilmaz and midfielder Todd Cantwell gave the visitors a two-goal interval lead at Easter Road with substitute Cyriel Dessers adding a third in the second half to leave the Light Blues five points behind their Old Firm rivals with one game in hand.
Keeper Jack Butland chipped in with some crucial saves but Clement spoke in glowing terms about his whole squad.
“It is about everybody,” said the Rangers boss, who reiterated his earlier statement that Abdallah Sima would be out for “between two and three months” after having an operation on his thigh.
“To be honest, after a game like this, I don’t even remember who scored the goals because for me it is not important who scores.
“It’s scoring as a team and it is the same with Jack. He makes the saves because the other guys will get red cards if they make saves with their hands.
“But, for example, John (Souttar) also made a really good save with his chest. It’s a team effort. That’s what we wanted to create a few months ago. To see a team all the time on the pitch and the guys are doing that now.
“I hope also after several victories they keep on understanding where it is coming from. It is not falling out of the sky.
“It is about a lot of effort, a lot of solidarity and not having too big an ego to play for yourself.
“So I am going to be really strict on that and to look at the team and making team decisions.
“I told them after training yesterday [Tuesday] they give me quite a headache for the moment to pick a starting 11.
“But it is a good thing. I hope they give me a lot of headaches the next couple of months.”
Before the game Clement revealed the extent of Sima’s injury.
The 22-year-old Senegal international, who has scored 15 goals since arriving on loan from Brighton in the summer, was sent home from the Africa Cup of Nations after picking up the injury in training.
Clement told Rangers’ official website: “Abdallah had his operation and the surgeon was really happy with the way it went.
“It was a good operation, everything went well and he will be out for between two and three months.
“He is positive, he is someone who is always working hard and we expect him to be back as fast as possible in a healthy way and we can count on him at the end of the season.”
Hibs boss Nick Montgomery was left ruing some missed opportunities.
He said: “Myziane (Maolida) has a chance from six yards and it’s a top save from the goalkeeper.
“Those are the moments that change games. If that goes in it’s 2-1 the crowd lifts and I’m pretty sure we could have got back into the game. We would have been right in the ascendency.
“If you don’t take your chances you are going to start chasing the game and you can’t do that against a team like Rangers.”
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