Philippe Clement has confirmed Tom Lawrence has suffered a minor injury as he urged caution over Connor Barron as not to "burn him alive" through Rangers duty.
The Ibrox boss is without Lawrence who limped off during the loss to Lyon in the Europa League on Thursday.
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Clement made two changes with Nico Raskin and Ross McCausland coming in for Lawrence and Barron - with the latter still named on the bench.
"Tom Lawrence has a small injury, nothing big but it is too risky to let him play minutes," Clement confirmed ahead of the match against St Johnstone.
"Connor Barron has been playing a lot of minutes in the last weeks and months and been very important in that way.
"We need to see also that we don't burn him alive and Nico is doing good things in training came also in a good way on Thursday so it is his moment.
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Ianis Hagi also returns to the Rangers squad for the league match after his stand-off with the club was resolved during the week.
The Romanian internationalist is on the bench but Clement is keen to see him return to the line-up in rapid fashion after rejoining first-team training.
On whether it's a case of slowly reintroducing Hagi to the first-team set-up, Clement told Rangers TV: "Not slowly, as fast a possible. Because of his situation, he has been training with the second team, that is of course another level than the first team.
"It's good that he is back, he showed good things on the ball, physically we need to see how far he is."
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