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title: "Rangers vs St Mirren early team news: Seven out as McInnes Hunts First Win"
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# Rangers vs St Mirren early team news: Seven out as McInnes Hunts First Win

**Rangers vs St Mirren at Ibrox on Sunday hands Derek McInnes his next chance to claim an overdue first win of the season.**

He goes into the Premier Sports League Cup second-round tie with a badly stretched squad.

[The Scotsman reports](https://rangersnewsfeed.com/rangers-vs-st-mirren-injury-news-7-out-and-1-doubt-as-derek-mcinnes-considers-changes-for-ibrox-clash/) seven players are out and one is a doubt for the 4pm kick-off at Ibrox, with the manager weighing changes after Thursday’s horrendous Europa League exit.

McInnes has not won any of his first four competitive matches, a run that hit its lowest point in midweek when a 1-1 draw sent the Gers out of Europa League qualifying 3-2 on aggregate to Jagiellonia Bialystok.

Read Rangers set out [the major talking points from a wretched night in Govan](https://readrangers.com/2026/08/13/rangers-europa-league-jagiellonia-talking-points).

St Mirren, by contrast, travel to Ibrox as holders of the trophy, a point flagged by [BBC Radio Scotland’s Scottish Football Podcast](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0p4h17z).

## Rangers vs St Mirren injury list

Two of the biggest absences are well known. Youssef Chermiti faces a significant spell out after the anterior cruciate ligament injury suffered against Hibernian, while Tuur Rommens is sidelined for up to eight weeks with a groin problem – [the double injury blow the club confirmed last week](https://readrangers.com/2026/08/11/rangers-confirm-injury-chermiti-rommens).

With no senior left-back available, it could be three at the back once again, while a reported loan move for former Hearts full-back James Penrice is not yet confirmed.

McInnes, [speaking to BBC Sport](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cly8w7wm9v8o) after the exit, knows the mood has to change fast.

> We need to get more quality, we need to get more confidence into the team …We have to get things moving in the right way quickly, he said.

A win would at least get McInnes off the mark and he needs it. Lose and it’s a real crisis at Ibrox.

Confirmed team news will follow on Sunday.