James Tavernier hit a first-half hat-trick as Rangers breezed into the Scottish Cup quarter-finals, avenging last year’s shock defeat by Queen’s Park.<\/p>\n
Almost exactly 12 months ago, Calum Ferrie was the hero for the Championship side, making save after save and stopping a late penalty from Tavernier in one of the biggest upsets in the history of the tournament.<\/p>\n
This time, the goalkeeper was sent the wrong way from the spot by the Ibrox captain after punching a corner from the full-back into his own net, while Tavernier’s first goal was forced home from close range.<\/p>\n
Ryan Naderi opened his Rangers account on his first start and Matty Shiels knocked in an own goal before the interval, both coming from corners.<\/p>\n
Naderi helped himself to a second header early in the second half and Bojan Miovski steered in the seventh on 80 minutes.<\/p>\n
Tochi Chukwuani, who flicked on Tavernier’s delivery for the Shiels own goal, completed the rout, applying the finish to a neat passing sequence.<\/p>\n
Queen’s Park made it through by default after Stranraer were expelled for not following the correct procedure for registering an on-loan goalkeeper in the previous round.<\/p>\n
While the reprieve will provide a healthy boost for the club’s coffers, there was little danger of lightning striking twice in such an error-strewn display that will compound the misery of a team sitting bottom of the second tier.<\/p>\n
The visitors did have the ball in the net at 1-0 but Aidan Connolly was offside by quite a distance, a fleeting moment of joy swiftly doused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Tavernier hit a first-half hat-trick as Rangers breezed into the Scottish Cup quarter-finals, avenging last year’s shock…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-414909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414909","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=414909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}