While the boss summons two secret weapons to support the title charge, Philippe Clement uses the “extra powers” of the Rangers.

The manager believes that his players’ time in Spain will give them “extra powers,” and he believes that having one-on-one conversations with each player will offer them a competitive advantage.

Philippe Clement is adamant that his formidable Rangers will come back home rejuvenated and prepared to dominate the second half of the campaign.

The Ibrox manager has been putting his team through an intense winter training camp in the Spanish resort town of La Manga for the last five days. The rigorous training included two daily sets of lung-bursting drills designed to build up the reserves of stamina that Clement feels would be necessary if his squad is to continue to improve under his direction.

His tired Light Blues lost their bounce-game match against Germans Hertha Berlin 1-0 on Saturday. On Monday, they will return to their Auchenhowie camp, but not before they play another friendly kickabout against Copenhagen at Ibrox tomorrow night. Clement has promised to keep pushing his team in Glasgow. However, the big Belgian is confident that his players will be back to their best come Saturday’s Scottish Cup trip to Dumbarton. The team is about to embark on another demanding schedule that may see them play up to 13 games in a mere 58 days.

“We saw good things on a pitch that was not the best,” stated the Ibrox manager, who was oddly sent out during the Berlin match for berating the referees. We attempted to create space on a pitch that wasn’t the biggest by playing at a good tempo against a squad that waited for transitions and didn’t want the ball.

Thus, those are the conditions that increase the difficulty of scoring a goal. I witnessed a lot of players’ strong intentions and effort, which is exactly what we need right now.

The players are going to go pretty deep this week and in the coming weeks, so they will benefit financially from that.

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