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Rangers injury worries

Stafford Rangers boss Phil Robinson was today sweating on the fitness of summer signing Djoumin Sangare as he begins the battle to drag his team off the bottom of the Blue Square Premier. Stafford Rangers boss Phil Robinson was today sweating on the fitness of summer signing Djoumin Sangare as he begins the battle to drag his team off the bottom of the Blue Square Premier. Sangare limped out of Saturday's 1-0 home defeat by Woking with a groin injury to join Rangers' growing injury list. Nathan Talbott, Kevin Street and Del Olaoye all missed the Marston Road reverse, which left Boro without a point after their first three games. Street is the only one of the three with an outside chance of being fit for Saturday's trip to Oxford United, leaving Robinson hoping that he receives a positive bulletin on Sangare today. "Djoumin has quite a bad groin strain which we will have another look at today to see just how bad it is," said Robinson. Read the full story in the Express & Star.

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Sangare limped out of Saturday's 1-0 home defeat by Woking with a groin injury to join Rangers' growing injury list.

Nathan Talbott, Kevin Street and Del Olaoye all missed the Marston Road reverse, which left Boro without a point after their first three games.

Street is the only one of the three with an outside chance of being fit for Saturday's trip to Oxford United, leaving Robinson hoping that he receives a positive bulletin on Sangare today.

"Djoumin has quite a bad groin strain which we will have another look at today to see just how bad it is," said Robinson.

"We are not ruling him out for Saturday yet, but we will know a lot more today. But we fear it is a bad one."

Olaoye and Talbott have both been ruled out for the foreseeable future and face appointments to see consultants to assess the extent of their injuries.

And with Nathan Smith still recovering from the knee problem that kept him out all last season, Robinson admits he could do without bad news about Sangare.

"When you put him into the equation it's a big portion of our tried and tested first team players that we are without," he added.

"That's a blow in our position."

Rangers wasted some glorious chances against Woking before falling to a sucker punch on the counter attack from the Cards.

Robinson said: "It is very frustrating. We played some good football at times, created some good chances in the game - again - and their goal just summed it all up.

"We fashioned a clear-cut chance for Greg Stones, the keeper pulls off a save, a breakaway straight down the middle and they score within a couple of seconds.

"We'd had them watched in midweek and knew they were going to try and catch us on the break.

"We need to put our chances away, but what's also hurting us at the moment is three key players Nathan Talbott, Kevin Street and Del Olaoye absent."

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