The latter made an instant impact with a perfectly-timed run that was finished with a towering header in off the crossbar. The perfect start for Rangers and him on just his second league start.<\/p>\n
However, a procession to a straightforward three points didn’t materialise as Livingston fought back and looked strong.<\/p>\n
Yengi exposed Rangers’ centre-backs and ran clear, coolly finishing under Jack Butland to level. Shortly after, it was so nearly worse for the home side.<\/p>\n
Yengi saw his close-range shot divert off Fernandez’s arm. It was on target, but a foul wasn’t given. The guidance from VAR HQ was that the defender’s arm was deemed to be in a natural position and the ball to be struck from close range. <\/p>\n
Martindale and his team will likely disagree with that judgement. It was a crucial call that will likely be dissected, not least given referee Ross Hardie was not called over to the monitor to review. <\/p>\n
As the game wore on, Livingston were comfortable for the large part. <\/p>\n
Djeidi Gassama somehow missed on the counter before Yengi was superbly denied when clean in on Jack Butland. <\/p>\n
In the dying seconds of injury time, substitute Robbie Muirhead fired just over as Diomande’s late, controversial, tap-in ultimately proved the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latter made an instant impact with a perfectly-timed run that was finished with a towering header in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-277710","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\/277710","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=277710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}