Rangers fell behind to Jonah Ayunga's 32nd-minute goal before Hamza Igamane refused to come on as a substitute, telling the manager he was injured. The club had rejected a bid for Igamane earlier in the week and the player had trained and warmed up beforehand. Findlay Curtis equalised with 12 minutes to go, but Rangers could not secure a winner and now sit seventh in the Scottish Premiership, six points behind Celtic. Russell Martin criticised the team's lack of energy, intensity and courage on the ball despite a stronger second-half finish.
Hamza told me he was injured. We had a bid this week for Hamza, we rejected it, all was fine, trained fine yesterday, warmed up fine. I turned around to him at 60 minutes because I wanted two strikers on the pitch. And Hamza told me he was injured.
We don't start well enough again, not enough energy and intensity. The ball can't get behind us like that two-v-one, it's impossible. It's much easier when you show courage to take the ball and stick to the ball. There's too much tension, there's not enough courage with the ball, so we have to fight more than we should without the ball. It's nothing new. The second half we finish strongly and I thought we'd go on to win
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