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Another headline grabbing weekend in the Scottish Premiership is quickly followed by a midweek card full of big games made more relevant by another managerial casualty. Rangers travel to Kilmarnock without Philippe Clement after the Belgian was dismissed following a home defeat by St Mirren, while leaders Celtic look to bounce back at home to third-placed Aberdeen after losing to Hibernian. And that is before you look at the scrap at the bottom to avoid relegation. Here's some key points to watch over Tuesday and Wednesday. How might four Rangers men fare in their hour of need? 'I thought Rangers manager job would never come' - Ferguson Glasgow pressure 'doesn't stop', says Rodgers Celtic have now won just once in four games, but that is hardly a crisis considering two of those were against Bayern Munich - they are still runaway domestic leaders and their main rivals have just sacked their manager for failing to narrow the gap. However, Brendan Rodgers will be keen for his reigning champions to get back on track after Saturday's defeat at Easter Road - only their second in the league this season. Jimmy Thelin's Aberdeen have themselves got back to winning ways - three in succession after just two in 16 following their 6-0 thrashing by Tuesday's opponents in the Premier Sports Cup semi-final at Hampden. Indeed, they remain the only side to avoid defeat and to even score at Celtic Park in the Premiership this season, having drawn 2-2 there in October. However, Celtic have improved since then and have won each of their last nine home league games by an aggregate score of 32-0. One more and it will be the first time in the club's history that they will have won 10 in a row at home without conceding. Despite halting their recent slide and jumping back above Dundee United into third spot, the odds are against the Dons considering they have not beaten Celtic in their latest 28 meetings, losing 22 of them, since a 1-0 win in Glasgow in May 2018. Lyall Cameron scored the only goal the last time Dundee visited Fir Park While his future team-mates at Ibrox are in turmoil with the loss of their manager, Lyall Cameron's job until joining Rangers in the summer is to help Dundee out of the relegation play-off spot. Their visit to Motherwell is crucial considering Wednesday's hosts are one place and four points above, but it should be one for the 22-year-old midfielder to relish. Cameron has scored five goals in his five Premiership appearances against the Steelmen – the only opponent against whom he has scored more than twice in the top-flight. He also has the added burden of having to impress a new manager given he thought he would be playing under the now-departed Clement at Ibrox come next season. Cameron will be keen to make sure Michael Wimmer suffers a second successive defeat since taking over as Well manager - the side's sixth in a row overall and seventh without a win. Dundee themselves have only won once in five, losing the other four, but will be aiming for a hat-trick of wins over Motherwell this season. That includes October's win at Fir Park, where - you've guessed it - Cameron scored the only goal of the game before a double in their 4-1 at Dens Park in December. It was no surprise to hear Barry Ferguson admit that he thought his dream of becoming manager of his beloved Rangers had long since gone. The 47-year-old has been out of football management since resigning as boss of part-time Alloa Athletic nearly exactly three years ago. Ferguson's managerial journey started promisingly when he helped Blackpool avoid relegation from the Championship as caretaker player-manager, but it stalled when Clyde lost a promotion play-off final to Queen's Park and he left the following season with the Bully Wee sitting eighth in Scottish League 2. He resurrected his reputation by leading Kelty Hearts to the Lowland League title then a play-off win over Brechin City that took the Fife club into the Scottish Professional Football League for the first time. However, rather than seek a further promotion, he jumped up a league and moved the 19 miles along the road to Recreation Park only to resign before the end of his first term with Alloa sitting eighth in League 1. Ferguson's Rangers role has more recently been as a club ambassador and appearances for legends teams in charity games, but now he has been thrust back into the spotlight as head coach until the summer. Speaking on Rangers TV, publicly at least, he seemed to accept his role was merely to steady the ship until a permanent successor to Clement is chosen. However, deep down anyone in his position, especially someone who was so adored at Ibrox as a player, will be hoping to be such a success that he forces the board, or the potential new owners negotiating a takeover, to think again. In former team-mates Neil Mc Cann and Billy Dodds, he has certainly surrounded himself with assistants with more experience of managing at higher levels and is already promising changes to make Rangers more attack-minded. Indeed, their first game in charge brings them head-to-head with another former Rangers player who has long been linked with the Ibrox job - Derek Mc Innes. Mc Innes has won two (and lost two) of his home games against Rangers as Kilmarnock boss, while the Ayrshire side of have won six of their latest 12 home games against the Glasgow side, losing only five. The latest victory was by a single goal in October and they go into Wednesday's game having won five of their latest seven home games overall. However, Rangers gained revenge by thrashing Kilmarnock 6-0 at Ibrox in December and Ferguson will be hoping to match the 3-1 wins on their latest two Premiership away days to cast off the blues that followed Saturday's defeat by St Mirren and led to Clement's departure. Premier League news conferences and build-up 'Over my dead body' - Arteta won't quit title race Double World Cup winner Kitshoff forced to retire Do something funny for money this Red Nose Day Comic Relief is hitting the Big 4-0 and this Red Nose Day we’re going big to celebrate! 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