No broken bones but Bates to have scan on ankle injury

Rangers defender David Bates will have a scan on the ankle injury he suffered in Sunday’s 3-2 defeat by Celtic this week but broken bones have been ruled out.

The 21-year-old, below, was caught by Tom Rogic’s follow through when the Celtic midfielder scored past Rangers keeper Wes Foderingham to make it 1-1 and was carried from the field on a stretcher with only 15 minutes played.

Manager Graeme Murty told Rangerstv: “David is going to have a scan on his ankle, he has not broken it. It is a freak injury, he steps to the ball and goes to try and make a block and the ball flicks off his shin which takes it out of Wes’s grasp and as Rogic has a shot he comes down on David’s ankle.

“It looked a nasty one at the time and David is obviously upset but we won’t know the extent of it until we have it scanned. “He is off at the moment with his foot up, he has got a very fat ankle and we are very disappointed for him. “We are taking our time to make sure we get the assessment done properly and get a proper prognosis and a timescale in due course.

“We don’t know how long we have lost him for.”