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Joe Aribo suffers head injury in Rangers' League Cup win

Joe Aribo suffered a head injury in Rangers' 1-0 win over Livingston in Wednesday's Scottish League Cup fixture.

Aribo could only manage 22 minutes of action in the encounter before he was replaced by Steven Davis.

The Super Eagles midfielder challenged Ricki Lamie in an aerial battle but was on the receiving end of an elbow which left him bleeding.

That’s a an elbow clearly ffs on aribo that’s bad the blood streaming down his face is terrible thoughts on that was it meant pic.twitter.com/OAH4Lob9Fp

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In response to the collision, medical personnel rushed to stop the bleeding and cover the bruise with bandages, after which the midfielder walked off the pitch by himself.