There was more energy in the Rangers team here. They moved the ball faster and got up the pitch quicker.<\/p>\n
Rohl had also clearly instructed Thelo Aasgaard and Djeidi Gassama to get higher up the pitch when the Ibrox side were in comfortable possession, effectively giving them a front four with Danilo and Bojan Miovski.<\/p>\n
Nico Raskin and Mohamed Diomande provided a strong base in midfield and, while they are very far from the finished article, the early signs appear promising.<\/p>\n
There was an energy and resilience about Rangers. They scored three goals and very nearly had a fourth, Nico Raskin being denied by the tighest of VAR offside calls. <\/p>\n
Rohl’s side will now approach two huge matches this week with a dollop of confidence restored, albeit some familiar old failings remaining in evidence. Goalkeeper Butland failing to deal with a routine corner, for one. <\/p>\n
Kilmarnock’s determination and organisation was to be admired. They defended with honesty and commitment, which meant they were always in the match until Chermiti’s killer third 15 minutes from time.<\/p>\n
They rode their luck and weren’t able to pose enough questions to their hosts at the other end of the field. Rangers, ultimately had a little too much quality. <\/p>\n
This defeat is unlikely to derail what’s been a solid start to the season, though, with the Ayrshire side right in the mix for the top six in a very congested table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was more energy in the Rangers team here. They moved the ball faster and got up the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-226855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}