Rangers narrowed Hearts’ lead at the top of the Scottish Premiership to three points as they eventually dismantled 10-man Kilmarnock at Ibrox.<\/p>\n
With the league leaders dropping points in Paisley last night, Danny Rohl’s side knew there was a chance to reduce the gap and, in pursuit of that goal, they made the perfect start.<\/p>\n
There were only three minutes on the clock when Djeidi Gassama nipped in behind Dom Thompson, with the Killie full-back dragging down to the Rangers winger.<\/p>\n
Tavernier tucked the penalty away, Thompson was sent off, and any fears about an upset were immediately allayed.<\/p>\n
The first 15 minutes or so continued that narrative as Mikey Moore tore Kilmarnock’s right-hand side apart but the visitors started to slow the play down and even had a chance to equalise through Bruce Anderson, but the striker squandered it.<\/p>\n
The single goal deficit at half-time was a surprise but in the second half, Rangers motored away from their tiring visitors. <\/p>\n
Bojan Miovski, out of sorts for most the night, curled in a brilliant second from the edge of the box before Andreas Skov Olsen got his first in royal blue.<\/p>\n
Kilmarnock were gifted a consolation by Rangers’ goalie Jack Butland, who completely fluffed a back pass and allowed Greg Kiltie to score from close range. The gap was too big by that point, but a moment to forget for the Rangers keeper.<\/p>\n
But really, Kilmarnock had tired by then. Rangers’ fourth and fifth – tucked away by Oliver Antman and Moore from close range – looked easy, as they knocked the ball around slow legs and tucked them away inside the box.<\/p>\n
With Celtic’s match against Aberdeen postponed, Rangers move second while Kilmarnock remain rooted in 11th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rangers narrowed Hearts’ lead at the top of the Scottish Premiership to three points as they eventually dismantled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-459371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459371","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=459371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}