{"id":275662,"date":"2025-11-21T15:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275662\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T15:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:50:08","slug":"rohl-gives-john-souttar-and-derek-cornelius-injury-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275662\/","title":{"rendered":"Rohl gives John Souttar and Derek Cornelius injury updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Meanwhile, Bailey Rice<\/a> needs to have surgery after picking up a muscle injury in training.\n<\/p>\n

\n Rohl hopes to have Souttar and Moore back by the end of December, but admits muscle injuries are unpredictable. Meanwhile, Cornelius’ set-back could keep him on the sidelines for longer.\n<\/p>\n

\n Souttar was forced to sit out of Scotland’s 4-2 win over Denmark after sustaining an injury in the warm-up to the game, replaced by Hibs<\/a> defender Grant Hanley. He’d started for his nation in a 3-2 defeat against Greece days before.\n<\/p>\n

\n Meanwhile, Cornelius sat out of his country’s first fixture, a 0-0 draw with Ecuador, before returning to the starting line-up against Venezuela on Tuesday.\n<\/p>\n

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\n However, the left-sided centre-back who is on loan from Marseille, had to be removed inside 30 minutes.\n<\/p>\n

\n Moore meanwhile has picked up a muscle injury playing for England Under-19s.\n<\/p>\n

\n Rice is also injured and having surgery today while Youssef Chermiti and Liam Kelly<\/a> are doubts for tomorrow’s meeting with Livingston.\n<\/p>\n

\n Rohl said, asked when players with muscle injuries would return: “John and Mikey, I hope at the end of December. But it\u2019s a muscle injury, it could be 25 days, it could be 40 days. You never know. Derek at the moment, I have a little doubt that it’s just four weeks, five weeks. It could be longer. Yeah, and Bailey is today is Bailey’s surgery, it’s a big one.”\n<\/p>\n

\n Rangers<\/a> have other options at centre-back although Souttar and Cornelius have generally been first picks this season.\n<\/p>\n

\n Nasser Djiga, who didn’t feature for Burkina Faso over the past fornight, is on loan for the season from Wolves while Emmanuel Fernandez, a \u00a33.5million signing from Peterborough this summer, has started just two games.\n<\/p>\n

\n Nasser Djiga is on loan from Wolves (Image: Andy Buchanan \/ Shutterstock)\n<\/p>\n

\n James Tavernier<\/a> has also deputised in the centre of defence and Clinton Nsiala<\/a>, frozen out of the first team by Russell Martin<\/a>, has been training with Rohl’s side in recent weeks.\n<\/p>\n

\n Meanwhile Rangers are hopeful that Dujon Sterling<\/a> could feature over the course of the next week in his first appearance since an Achilies injury sustained against Athletic Bilbao in April.\n<\/p>\n

\n The club face Livingston at Ibrox<\/a> tomorrow in the Scottish Premiership<\/a> before hosting Braga in a must-win Europa League<\/a> encounter midweek.\n<\/p>\n

\n John McGlynn’s Falkirk will then travel to Ibrox next Sunday as a busy match schedule over the festive period begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, Bailey Rice needs to have surgery after picking up a muscle injury in training. Rohl hopes to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-275662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275662","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=275662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}