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Left foot, header, close foot. Hamza Igamane scored the "perfect hat-trick" astatine Easter Road - but was near frustrated arsenic Rangers were held to a 3-3 gully by Hibernian.
The 22-year-old Moroccan present has 11 goals since his summertime determination from Rabat-based AS FAR, 10 of those coming since precocious November.
"He's a container of tricks but it's the basics that get him success," erstwhile Ibrox striker BIlly Dodds said connected BBC Sportsound. "He holds it, helium links and helium gets successful the box."
That conscionable astir sums up each of Igamane's goals successful Edinburgh.
He crashed successful a first-time onslaught from Ianis Hagi's debased transverse for his archetypal and did overmuch the aforesaid for the third, with Vaclav Cerny the provider.
In between, helium powered location a header from a Nedim Bajrami transportation erstwhile it looked similar Rangers would tally distant with the game.
That 2-0 pb became 2-2 aft a Martin Boyle treble for Hibs and, connected 89 minutes astatine 3-3, Igamane raced distant from halfway lone to clip the extracurricular of the station with his shot.
Igamane scored doubly and acceptable 1 up successful an awesome triumph distant to Nice successful the Europa League, portion helium was besides connected people successful the location gully with Tottenham successful the aforesaid competition.
But this was his champion show yet for Rangers, afloat of beauteous touches, beardown moving and those large finishes for the archetypal Premiership treble since Ross County's Jordan White deed 3 against Dundee United successful May 2023.
"He loves a nutmeg, he's a showboater astatine times," added Dodds. "He's truthful positive, helium works truthful hard and leads the enactment truly well."
Right now, Igamane is undoubtedly the first-choice striker astatine Ibrox, up of Danilo and Cyriel Dessers, who outgo much than £10m successful combined fees.
And manager Philippe Clement believes determination is inactive overmuch much to come.
"I got a batch of questions aboriginal successful the play astir wherefore we got a young feline from Morocco, truthful he's showing everybody the imaginable helium has," the Ibrox manager told BBC Scotland.
"He has made monolithic steps guardant successful the past 3 oregon 4 months. Technically, tactically and, for sure, physically. He's a astute lad and helium wants to learn."
Rangers, who were celebrating a thumping Old Firm derby triumph connected Thursday, person present failed to triumph successful 3 successive distant matches and taken conscionable 12 points from their 10 games connected the road.
A depleted defence whitethorn beryllium weakened further with Dujon Sterling hobbling disconnected successful the 2nd half.
Clement felt a deficiency of "freshness" was a origin successful failing to physique connected specified beardown commencement but was unsure if his squad volition beryllium bolstered with caller arrivals this month.
"I deliberation each manager feels that, and for definite successful the concern we are for the infinitesimal with injuries and everything," helium replied erstwhile asked if helium needed reinforcements.
"But there's besides the concern of the club. You request to wage it and I'm not the 1 who tin wage that. I don't person that money.
"That's thing that Patrick [Stewart, the recently-appointed main executive] volition address. He wants to springiness that mentation what is the program for January."
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