STEVEN GERRARD will give his walking wounded every chance to star at Hampden as Rangers bid for Betfred Cup final glory against Celtic.
The Gers are continuing to monitor defender Borna Barisic after he missed the draw with Aberdeen on Wednesday night and midfielder Steven Davis is a doubt with a knock he picked up at Pittodrie.
Barisic was able to train on Friday and Gerrard will finalise his preparations for the Hampden showdown in the coming hours.
Gerrard said: "He (Barisic) trained today (Friday), he did a lighter session. So far, so good. The key to it will be can he get through tomorrow (Saturday) because obviously that will be a bit more intense, short and sharp stuff. Today (Friday) it was quite light. We expected him to get through today, tomorrow will be key, but we’re hopeful.
“We have a couple of knocks that we are concerned about. I don’t think I’m going to benefit from telling you who’s received those knocks…
"We will give everyone the best chance. We have one more session to go today and most of the lads who played on Wednesday night did a second day recovery today so we didn’t test anyone.
"No-one is ruled out at this moment but we definitely need to get one or two through tomorrow’s session before we confirm the team.”
Rangers threw away a two goal lead in midweek as they lost ground in the Premiership title race on the eve of the Old Firm final.
But Gerrard insists there will be no hangover from the Dons draw come kick-off at Hampden.
He said: "We knew this month and in this block we were going to be faced with all kinds of different challenges and different hurdles to get over and whatever the outcome of those individual games we had to move on as quick as we can because the next game is only days away.
"So we’re not going to benefit from feeling too good or too disappointed with ourselves. We just have to wipe the mentality clean and get ready to go again. The reaction from the lads has looked good since. We have one more day to prepare.”
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