After 3 goals successful his erstwhile 2 games - decisive contributions successful wins astatine Aberdeen and Falkirk - anterior to suffering his hamstring wounded against Motherwell, Shankland's lack comes astatine a peculiarly atrocious clip for him and for Rangers.
With chap striker Youssef Chermiti expected to beryllium retired for a lengthy play aft suffering anterior cruciate ligament damage against Hibernian past month, McInnes is present near without his 2 starring strikers.
"Having [Shankland] and Youssef out, 2 guys that warrant you goals astatine Premiership level, there's nary uncertainty it's a stroke for us," McInnes said.
"Their disappointment's different people's accidental arsenic you've seen adjacent from Saturday - Ryan getting his goal, Kevin [Kelsy] getting introduced, we've got Bojan Miovbski, who knows his mode astir the Scottish Premiership, truthful it's not each doom and gloom connected that beforehand but it is disappointing news."
Rangers were bully worth for their triumph implicit Motherwell, but with the fig of chances they created it should person been much comfortable.
"If Lawrence Shankland was connected the transportation throughout, he'd beryllium walking distant with a mates of goals," erstwhile Rangers midfielder Andy Halliday said connected BBC Sportsound.
Naderi scored the lone extremity of the crippled connected Saturday, capitalising connected a blunder from Motherwell goalkeeper Alex Paulsen to rotation the shot into an bare net.
The large striker is simply a consenting idiosyncratic but tin helium present the benignant of scoring numbers Shankland has consistently produced successful the Premiership?
Naderi scored 3 goals successful his 11 games past play aft joining Rangers successful January, 2 of which came successful the 8-0 Scottish Cup rout of lower-league Queen's Park.
The German has scored 3 successful 8 appearances this word - 1 less than Shankland's 4 goals successful 10 games.
Since joining Rangers, helium has averaged a extremity each 189 minutes. That fig is 146 minutes for Shankland, stretching backmost to the commencement of past play for Hearts.
The lone striker connected Rangers' books whose stats comparison favourably with Shankland is Miovski, who averages a extremity each 148 minutes. However, the erstwhile Aberdeen favourite has recovered it hard to get a accordant tally successful the side. Big-money signing Kelsy volition travel into the premix pursuing his accomplishment from Portland Timbers.
The Venezuelan had a aureate accidental to denote himself connected his debut against Motherwell but showed small composure arsenic his changeable clipped the crossbar connected its mode out.
Of course, it is acold excessively aboriginal to unreserved to judgement connected Kelsy's quality to capable the Shankland void, but 13 goals successful his past 46 games - averaging 1 each 190 minutes - would suggest the Ibrox nine person not signed an out-and-out scorer.
"It's not an perfect scenario," erstwhile Rangers goalkeeper Cammy Bell said connected the BBC's Scottish Football Podcast.
"They would person wanted to let a small spot of clip for Kelsy to find his feet successful Scottish shot and astatine Rangers. He's not going to get that now.
"You'd deliberation Kelsy is going to beryllium the 1 that volition person to measurement up to the sheet and people important goals due to the fact that you can't trust connected Shankland for now."
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