Uefa Cup: Ball to make European debut for Rangers

Rangers defender Craig Moore is expecting Moscow Dynamo to adopt a defensive formation in the first leg of their Uefa Cup second round clash.

That could mean employing just one front man against the Rangers back line, but Moore knows coping with a counter-attacking team is a special task.

Michael Ball is set for his European debut having played the last two games as part of a three-man defence. England scouts will be watching him as well.

Moore said: "He has worked very hard to get a level of fitness and I think he has looked really comfortable. He gives us balance as well because he is naturally left-sided."

Although their league form has been patchy, Dynamo thrashed Anzhi Makhachkala 5-0 in their final game before flying into Scotland. Anzhi were the team Rangers struggled to beat in the previous round in the one-off encounter in neutral Warsaw.

Anzhi coach Alexander Markarov had supplied information to his counterpart Alexander Novikov, branding Rangers as cloggers whose star players were over the hill.

Rangers welcome back centre-back Lorenzo Amoruso from a domestic suspension but will be without strikers Shota Arveladze and Michael Mols.

Arveladze is ineligible because he played in the Champions League for Ajax while Mols completes a three-match ban for his sending off in a Champions League qualifier against Fenerbahce. Billy Dodds, Peter Lovenkrands, Scott Wilson and Christian Nerlinger are also unavailable.