{"id":866087,"date":"2025-08-18T21:15:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/touch-and-go-cyriel-dessers-latest-as-rangers-prepare-for-ucl-qualifier-against-club-brugge\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T21:15:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:15:50","slug":"touch-and-go-cyriel-dessers-latest-as-rangers-prepare-for-ucl-qualifier-against-club-brugge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/touch-and-go-cyriel-dessers-latest-as-rangers-prepare-for-ucl-qualifier-against-club-brugge\/","title":{"rendered":"Touch and go: Cyriel Dessers latest as Rangers prepare for UCL qualifier against Club Brugge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cyriel Dessers converts from the spot during the Champions League 3rd qualifying round, 1st leg, Rangers Vs Viktoria Plzen Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow. Scotland, 05\/08\/2025. [Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rangers<\/a> head coach Russell Martin has revealed the injury status of Super Eagles striker Cyriel Dessers following his side’s 4-2 victory over Alloa Athletic in the League Cup, Soccernet.ng reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Scottish manager was appointed as the Gers tactician back in June<\/a>, but has had a tough start to his career at Ibrox.<\/p>\n

Rangers lost to Viktoria Plzen in the second leg of their UEFA Champions League qualifier, but were able to make it to the next qualification round, where they’ll face Club Brugge.<\/p>\n

Nigeria’s Unity Cup hero, Cyriel Kolawole Dessers, picked up a nasty injury in Rangers’ UEFA Champions League<\/a> qualification clash against Viktoria Plzen at the Doosan Arena.<\/p>\n

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Cyriel Dessers looked in pain as he was helped from the pitch with what appeared to be a suspected knee injury. [Photo Credit\/ X\/PLZ Soccer].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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While many feared for the worst, the former Southampton coach revealed Dessers’ ankle twist will see him miss just a few games, and he could be in line to feature against Club Brugge tomorrow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Soccer Latest update on Cyriel Dessers<\/a>\u2018 injury<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Russell Martin<\/a> has revealed Cyriel Dessers is a major doubt to feature in the club\u2019s biggest game of the season at the Ibrox Stadium after initially hoping he’d be fit.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBig Cyriel is probably the only concern. He’ll be touch-and-go,\u201d the 39-year-old gaffer said in quotes revealed by The Scotsman<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s responded really well to treatment. It was nowhere near as bad as we first feared. So if it’s not tomorrow, we expect him to be back for the weekend (v St Mirren) and next week.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Sampson Dweh and Cyriel Dessers in action during the 3rd qualifying round match FC Viktoria Plzen vs Glasgow Rangers, Plzen, August 12, 2025. [Photo Credit\/ ImagoxMiroslavxChaloupka].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rangers have won just two of six competitive games under Russell Martin, drawing three and losing one. However, a place in the UEFA Champions League is up for grabs, and they need to step up their performance<\/p>\n

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Russell Martin with a huge update on Rangers striker Cyriel Dessers pic.twitter.com\/habRN3Lxo2<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Scottish Sun Sport (@scotsunsport) August 18, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As per Ibrox News<\/a><\/strong>, Rangers will get a minimum of \u00a321.6m if they make it to the Champions League’s group phase which is a huge incentive that could dictate the rest of the season as they need to buy players before the summer transfer window shuts.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tAdefolahan is a multilingual journalist and writer at Soccernet Nigeria.<\/p>\n

With a track record of involvement in College sports, Adefolahan is focused on crafting engaging football content and utilising his language skills and extensive sports knowledge to enhance content accessibility for a global audience.<\/p>\n

He has interviewed Nigerian stars like Finidi George, Junior Lokosa, and Abraham Onahi Ogbu.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Soccer Cyriel Dessers converts from the spot during the Champions League 3rd qualifying round, 1st leg, Rangers Vs Viktoria Plzen Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow. Scotland, 05\/08\/2025. [Photo Credit\/ Imago]. Rangers head coach Russell Martin has revealed the injury status of Super Eagles striker Cyriel Dessers following his side’s 4-2 victory over Alloa Athletic in the League […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":866088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123736,2005,32578],"tags":[123734,5844],"class_list":{"0":"post-866087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cyriel","8":"category-soccer","9":"category-touch","10":"tag-cyriel","11":"tag-touch"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}