{"id":209290,"date":"2025-10-18T17:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/209290\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T17:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:33:08","slug":"stevie-smith-names-rangers-starting-xi-for-dundee-utd-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/209290\/","title":{"rendered":"Stevie Smith names Rangers starting XI for Dundee Utd clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The under-19s head coach is taking charge of the senior side on an interim basis after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rangersreview.co.uk\/news\/25236723.russell-martin-news-interviews-updates-manager\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Russell Martin<\/a> was sacked just under a fortnight ago.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The final nail in the coffin for the 39-year-old was a 1-1 draw away to Falkirk in the Scottish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rangersreview.co.uk\/news\/24294923.scottish-premiership-news-everything-need-know\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Premiership<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Read more:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  From that stalemate, Smith has made three alterations to the team today.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In come Jayden Meghoma, Thelo Aasgaard, and Oliver Antman, as Nasser Djiga, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rangersreview.co.uk\/topics\/connor-barron\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Connor Barron<\/a>, and Mikey Moore drop out.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Smith will be assisted in the dugout this afternoon by Brian Gilmour, Rhys Owen, and Sal Bibbo.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I really want to enjoy it,&#8221; said Smith ahead of taking charge of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rangersreview.co.uk\/news\/24286409.rangers-profile---everything-need-know-gers\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rangers<\/a>.&#8221;I think there are times as a player when you just go day to day and you don&#8217;t actually sit back and enjoy the moment that you&#8217;re in.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I&#8217;ll enjoy it a lot more if we win, but that enjoyment will probably come in the days and weeks after.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Confirmed Rangers starting XI: Butland, Tavernier, Souttar, Cornelius, Meghoma, Rothwell, Raskin, Aasgaard, Antman, Gassama, Miovski.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Subs: Kelly, Aarons, Barron, Chermiti, Bajrami, Cameron, Djiga, Moore, Curtis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The under-19s head coach is taking charge of the senior side on an interim basis after Russell Martin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-209290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}