By Akeem Lawal
RANGERS manager, Steve Gerrard has revealed that Nigeria international Leon Balogun has a “50-50” chance of being fit enough to feature in the Scottish Premiership clash at St Mirren on Sunday.
Sportsbiz247.blogspot.com reports that the Super Eagles centre-back limped out of Thursday night's Europa League 2-0 win over Brondby having earlier opened the scoring with a powerful header.
But the 33-year-old appeared to pick up a hamstring issue during the second-half and was substituted.
Balogun was later spotted walking around pitchside, suggesting the problem was not a serious one.
Ibrox boss Gerrard hasn't ruled the Nigerian out of Sunday's visit to Paisley but conceded he remains a fitness doubt.
"We will give Leon every chance for the weekend, he is still a doubt but not ruled out just yet.
"We will assess him as the day goes along and we will try and get him recovered.
"He has an outside chance for the weekend but we also have to analyse the risk so we will make a really late decision on that one but it is probably 50-50,” Gerrard said.
A lay-off for Balogun would further tighten Rangers' options at centre-back, with Filip Helander a long-term absentee and Nikola Katic on-loan in Croatia.
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