Derek McInnes’s Derek McInnes Youssef Chermiti update arrived with a setback at Ibrox: Rangers lost 2-1 to Hibernian, and Chermiti was carried off on a stretcher before half-time. The defeat came in McInnes’s first home match in charge.
The result left Rangers five points behind Celtic and St Mirren after two games. Josh Campbell put Hibernian ahead from the spot in the 12th minute after VAR flagged a foul by Vanja Dragojevic on Jason Kerr, giving McInnes’s side an early deficit to chase.
Ibrox swings late
Rangers then spent the closing stages trying to rescue the match, and Miguel Chaiwa turned the ball past Raphael Sallinger in the 85th minute to make it 1-1. For a brief spell, Rangers looked set to leave with a point instead of a home defeat.
Callum Wright decided it in the third minute of added time for Hibernian. That finish turned a hard-fought recovery into a second defeat in three matches for McInnes as Rangers manager.
Chermiti injury concern
Chermiti’s exit is the other immediate issue for Rangers. The striker had been linked with a failed bid by Galatasaray for a reported club-record fee of £22million, so any injury scare around him carries extra weight for a squad already under pressure from the result.
The source does not give Chermiti’s diagnosis or recovery timeline, so the next practical checkpoint for Rangers is the club’s medical update on how long he will be unavailable. Until then, McInnes is left with a defeat to absorb and a forward line that may need to adjust quickly after the stretchered-off exit of one of its most closely watched players.
