{"id":351584,"date":"2025-12-16T11:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/351584\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:31:10","slug":"rangers-1-0-hibernian-emmanuel-fernandez-on-target-as-hosts-move-up-to-third-in-scottish-premiership-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/351584\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers 1-0 Hibernian: Emmanuel Fernandez on target as hosts move up to third in Scottish Premiership | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rangers moved into third place in the Scottish Premiership with a 1-0 win over Hibernian although Danny R\u00f6hl\u2019s side provided little inspiration for most of the night at Ibrox.<\/p>\n

The Gers fans had begun to grumble about their disjointed side when defender Emmanuel Fernandez netted with a header in the 34th minute for his third goal in 10 appearances and it proved enough to secure all three points.<\/p>\n

Rangers were all but knocked out of the Europa League on Thursday night with a 2-1 away defeat to Ferencvaros, which left them with one point from 18 in Europe.<\/p>\n

However, R\u00f6hl has found domestic duties less demanding since taking over from Russell Martin and now has six wins and two draws in eight fixtures without finding top form.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Rangers moved to within nine points of leaders Hearts – whom they face at Tynecastle on Sunday, live on Sky Sports – with a game in hand.<\/p>\n

Sunday 21st December 12:30pm<\/p>\n

Kick off 1:30pm<\/p>\n


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Both sides had early chances.<\/p>\n

After Hibs attacker Elie Youan drove a shot over the crossbar, Rangers’ much-maligned Youssef Chermiti, back in the side along with Mikey Moore, Findlay Curtis, Mohamed Diomande and Dujon Sterling, drew a save from goalkeeper Raphael Sallinger with an angled drive.<\/p>\n

Gers defender Nasser Djiga headed Connor Barron’s resultant corner wide.<\/p>\n

The visitors, who looked physically stronger all over the pitch, settled into the game with growing confidence.<\/p>\n

Rangers could not find any rhythm or fluidity and fans grew increasingly anxious, which in turn affected the players.<\/p>\n

Hibs striker Kieron Bowie fired a long-distance drive just over the crossbar and in the 29th-minute, fit-again Sterling – who was starting for the first time this season – cleared a Warren O’Hora header from a corner off the line.<\/p>\n

However, it was Rangers who took the lead after a brief spell of pressure soon afterwards, Fernandez glancing in a header from a Sterling cross which caught out the Leith defence.<\/p>\n

\"Emmanuel<\/p>\n

Image:
\n Emmanuel Fernandez celebrates scoring Rangers’ winner against Hibernian<\/p>\n

There was a VAR check for a Hibernian penalty in the 42nd minute for a Sterling handball from a Bowie shot, but there was an offside in the build-up.<\/p>\n

Moore began to influence more at the start of the second half but still Rangers struggled to create.<\/p>\n

Youan’s effort from 30 yards was gathered by home goalkeeper Jack Butland, who, like his Hibs counterpart, was seeing little real action.<\/p>\n

The visitors were moving forward with relative ease but could not penetrate the Govan side’s unconvincing rearguard, which kept testing the nerve of the home support.<\/p>\n

\"GLASGOW,<\/p>\n

Image:
\n Hibs missed the chance to leapfrog Rangers in the league<\/p>\n

In the 78th minute, Gers substitute Djeidi Gassama raced through to beat Sallinger but was ruled offside, with VAR confirming the decision.<\/p>\n

Chermiti fired a shot straight at Sallinger with three minutes remaining, with the Hibernian stopper denying Gassama before the end.<\/p>\n

It was another positive result for Rangers but performance levels will surely have to rise in weeks and months to come.<\/p>\n

Rohl hails determination over style <\/p>\n

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\"Danny<\/p>\n

Danny R\u00f6hl reacts to Rangers\u2019 win over Hibs as they moved up to third in the Scottish Premiership<\/p>\n

Danny R\u00f6hl acknowledged determination over style following Rangers’ narrow win over Hibernian.<\/p>\n

The Ibrox head coach said: “I’m very proud of the group, the outcome is about results and I’m still not happy with them every time, but I see at the moment a group who is running for each other, who speak to each other, block shots.<\/p>\n

“Sometimes we make mistakes, but the basics are right at the moment and if you do the basics right, then I feel we have quality in areas to win games.<\/p>\n

“From the last eight games, six wins, it’s not because we play tiki-taka, it’s about effort, effort, effort.<\/p>\n

“We know it was not the nicest game in some parts.<\/p>\n

“I think also in the first half, between 10 to 25 minutes, we lost a little bit of control, but always when we’re attacking forward, when we play forward, then you feel we can really hurt opponents, this is what we have to do more.<\/p>\n

“But when I look at the moment how many players we have not available and I see then that we’re running 95 minutes and put everything on, for me it was a fully deserved win, even at some moments, but all in all it was great.<\/p>\n

“I wish in the future that we use the open spaces from the opponent to kill them. This is also crucial because then I can relax a bit more on the touchline.”<\/p>\n

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\"GLASGOW,<\/p>\n

David Gray reflects on Hibernian’s loss at Rangers and their penalty claim, which was dismissed due to an offside<\/p>\n

Hibs head coach David Gray was left frustrated by the defeat, saying: I asked the players to be brave, be aggressive, get after Rangers and go toe-to-toe and I thought they did.<\/p>\n

“I thought they won the ball back well, in good areas and had a lot of control in the first half.<\/p>\n

“But the bit that let us down all night probably, which has been really unlike us, is the final third.<\/p>\n

“For all the control I felt we had, considering this was a difficult venue to come to, their ‘keeper didn’t really have a save to make, so it wasn’t as if we had chance after chance and that was down to a lack of decision-making sometimes and a lack of quality.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rangers moved into third place in the Scottish Premiership with a 1-0 win over Hibernian although Danny R\u00f6hl\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-351584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}