The Light Blues boss leads his troops into a Viaplay Cup semi-final showdown this weekend with Hearts at Hampden with a potential first trophy of his Ibrox career just 180 minutes away. It is a competition that the men from Govan have not lifted in recent times and they will be desperate to book a return ticket to the national stadium for the December showpiece and get the League Cup in the trophy cabinet.
It’s been a solid start to life under the new boss after he replaced Michael Beale with three wins from three in the Scottish Premiership and a Europa League draw on the road. Rangers followed up their last-gasp turnaround win over Hearts last weekend in Govan with a five-star display against newly promoted Dundee. It’s Steven Naismith’s men once again this weekend in the last four battle in Mount Florida. Clement is aware of the test his men face and concedes they must be ready for that challenge in what he has labelled a ‘big game’.
He said: “I want them to be ambitious to become better. It is not that it was the perfect performance, we can do things better than that performance, but you seen that they start to understand more and more of the story of what we want to do.