Rangers manager Steven Gerrard hailed Joe Aribo for thriving in a new left-back position in the club’s 3-0 win against Livingston on Wednesday, reports Completesports.com.

The playmaker was surprisingly deployed in the position by Gerrard and acquainted himself well.

“What can I say about Joe Aribo? Gerrard told the club website.

“I tell you what I’ll say about him – good players can play football, and top players can play anywhere on the football pitch and a manager can ask a player to do a role.

“Good players can do some and can’t do some, but Joe Aribo is a top player, so whatever I ask him to do, he goes out and gives it his best shot.

“He is my ‘Man of the Match’ tonight just because when you think about it, he is a number 10 and he is just so comfortable at left-back and cruised it and breezed it.

“That left-back performance is as good as we have seen in my three years that I have been here.

“So well done to him for parking his ego and doing a fantastic job for his teammates – well done.”