The skipper netted a first half hat trick as the Light Blues romped into the quarter final draw
16:02, 08 Feb 2026Updated 19:53, 08 Feb 2026
Rangers 8 Queen’s Park 0 – Best of the Scottish Cup action
Philippe Clement used to insist he was no magician during his stint as Rangers boss.
But Danny Rohl can claim to be an exorcist.
This encounter with Queen’s Park came one day shy of a year since Callum Davidson’s Spiders stunned Clement’s Light Blues by dumping them from the Scottish Cup.
But the ghosts of that humiliating defeat were well and truly laid to rest as Rohl’s rampaging Rangers buried any chance of a repeat upset.
The loss to the Championship strugglers played a huge role in Clement’s demise, with the Belgian axed a fortnight after a 97th minute penalty miss from James Tavernier consigned his side to one of the worst results in the club’s history.
But the skipper certainly made up for his part on that day of shame this time with a first-half hat-trick – a first of his career – as Gers ran amok before the break.
His early corner had already teed up new signing Ryan Naderi to head home his first goal for the club before he slammed home at the second attempt from a Mohamed Diomande cross.
Calum Ferrie – last year’s Queen’s hero with his last-gasp penalty stop – turned fall guy when he let Tavernier’s in-swinging corner slip through his grasp into the net.
He was beaten again by the right-back as Tavernier slammed home a penalty after Roddy MacGregor was penalised for handball.
Tavernier claimed another assist just before the interval when his corner was turned into the net by Matty Shiels.
Gers took their foot off the gas in the second half but still added three more.
Naderi claimed his second of the day just after the restart with another thumping from Antman’s lofted ball to the back post, while Miovski got in the act late on as he flicked past Ferrie from a Maghoma cross.
Tochi Chukwuani then completed Gers biggest win since November 2020 in the last minute. Here’s five talking points from Ibrox.
Lightening fails to strike twice
Not content with repairing much of the damage done by Russell Martin, Rohl is now setting about soothing the wounds of the Clement era.
The German admitted in midweek he’d been surprised by the Ibrox boo-boys during his side’s win over Kilmarnock but there was no chance of his side suffering a repeat shock against Queen’s.
As last year proved, these are the type of occasions when teams can quickly come unstuck if approached with the wrong attitude.
Under Clement, Gers were often slow and lethargic. This time they set out with a ruthless desire that saw them punish Queen’s almost every time they entered the Championship side’s box in a devastating first 45 minute showing.
Having responded last Sunday’s drab draw at Easter Road by smashing in 12 goals across two games, it sets the Light Blues up nicely for a couple of huge games away to Motherwell and at home to Hearts. Win both of those and Rangers’ hopes of a Double will be very much on.
Tavernier redemption
The skipper looked crushed by his stoppage-time penalty miss last year.
But he had a smile as wide as the Clyde this time round as he walked off at there break having bagged three goals and two assists.
Memories of that shock moment must have been flooding through his mind as he stepped up to take another penalty this time.
Rangers’ James Tavernier celebrates after scoring to make it 2-0
But thankfully for Tavernier, all the pressure was off with Gers already three up.
He’d already had a helping hand from Ferrie – the man who foiled in him in such dramatic fashion 12 months ago – when the Queen’s keeper punched a Tav corner into his own net.
And he could get nowhere near the captain’s pin-point strike as Tavernier claimed the match ball.
Naderi off and running
The German missed a golden chance to get off the mark on Wednesday night as he made his debut against Kilmarnock.
But it didn’t take him long this time to bag his first.
Roddy MacKenzie was the man tasked with marking the £4.75million signing but Naderi found it easy to give him the slip as he peeled into acres of space at the back post to nod home the eighth-minute opener.
And he used every inch of his towering 6ft 4ins frame to thud home his second just after the break.
The former Hansa Rostock ace will have tougher tests in the weeks ahead but already he looks to be the focal point Rangers have been searching for in attack.
Oliver’s twists
Oliver Antman barely featured in the first three months under Rohl – and when he did, he didn’t look anything like being worth the £4million Gers spent on in him in the summer.
But in his quarter-hour cameo against Killie in midweek, the former Go Ahead Eagle finally gave a glimpse of the quality which saw him finish last season as the most creative wideman in the Eredivisie.
Switched to his preferred left-hand wing, he could drift inside onto his stronger right foot and look to link up.
And there was further examples of that as he made his first start since November.
But when asked to change flanks and rill in at right-back for the second half he continued to offer a threat, teeing up Nederi’s second with a floated cross to the back post.
It’s certainly more like it as far as Rohl will be concerned.
Calamity Queen’s
The Hampden outfit were reinstated into the competition after fourth round conquerors Stranraer were booted out for fielding an illegible player.
They’re probably wishing they hadn’t bothered after this sore one.
Three of last year’s heroes – Ferrie, goalscorer Seb Drozd and Louis Longridge – were back in the side but there was no chance of lightening striking twice as the Ibrox side scored at will.
Rangers score to make it 3-0 as Calum Ferrie punches in a corner
Perhaps had Aidan Connolly kept himself onside – as he probably should have done – when he scored a disallowed goal just after Rangers’ opener it might have turned the atmosphere against the hosts.
But once the flag went up Gers never again looked troubled.