Pressure points up for grabs as out-of-form Genk come to Ibrox

An inability to keep the opposition out appears to be their Achilles heel – no clean sheets in their 10 matches this season is a statistic they will need to improve upon if they are to turn their fortunes around.

New signing Tobias Lawal has taken over between the sticks after an early-season injury to Hendrik van Crombrugge, who himself had played second fiddle to teenager Mike Penders for the second half of last season.

Penders signed for Chelsea at the beginning of last season but came back on loan and is tipped to be the latest in a long line of top-class goalkeepers produced by Genk’s renowned academy, with Thibaut Courtois among its most famous graduates.

The loss of last season’s top scorer Tolu Arokodare to Wolves can’t have helped. His 23 goals earned him a £23m switch to Molineux, although he only moved on 1 September so the drop-off in form was already well under way before he departed.

The good news for Genk is that another recent product from that seemingly never-ending conveyor belt of talent, Kostas Karetsas, should be fit to play having missed the past couple of games.

The 17-year-old Greece international, who tormented Scotland on his first start at Hampden in March after a promising debut in the first leg of the Nations League play-off, was born and bred in Genk and was wanted by the Belgium national team before opting to play for the nation of his parents.

Like the rest of the Genk team, he is perhaps yet to hit his stride this season but he enjoyed his last trip to Glasgow and will be keen to be just as influential this time around.