“Borna has a small issue at the moment and I think he will be out for the weekend, also.
“Hopefully we will have him around for the Brondby game.”
Impact
Rangers carry less of an offensive threat when Barisic is out of the side so the challenge for Bassey is to narrow that gap.
He started well on the front foot against Aberdeen but although his opponent Ojo received an early yellow card, there was no further serious penetration from the left flank. The former Leicester man is only in his second season of first team football and still clearly a work in progress but further end-product has to follow, if he is to claim that slot as his own.
Making that impact has to be the aim for the London-born player and he has already demostrated his capapbility earlier this season, against Dunfermline in the League Cup in particular.
Bassey has many of the required attributes to make a real go of it, at Ibrox, but now is the time to show he has the necessary quality to make the grade.