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<\/p>\nDanny R\u00f6hl won his first league game in charge of Rangers with a 3-1 victory over Kilmarnock at Ibrox.<\/p>\n
Rangers’ first home Premiership win of the season gave R\u00f6hl the dream start to life in Scotland after he suffered a 3-0 Europa League defeat at Brann in his first match in charge in midweek.<\/p>\n
But the German got the perfect response from his new side as Derek Cornelius headed in a 15th-minute opener from James Tavernier’s free-kick.<\/p>\n
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\n Derek Cornelius opened the scoring for Rangers <\/p>\n
The Ibrox crowd then sang R\u00f6hl’s name, but the positive mood was punctured when Rangers goalkeeper Jack Butland made an error at a corner to allow George Stanger to finish into an empty net after the Englishman had completely missed his punch.<\/p>\n
Butland’s opposite number, Eddie Beach, then nearly made an even bigger error as his drop-kick hit Cornelius and looped back over the entire defence for Bojan Miovski to head into an empty net, but the strike was ruled offside by VAR.<\/p>\n
The home side did manage to restore their lead just six minutes after half-time as Danilo’s downward header from a fine Jayden Meghoma cross crashed in off the post.<\/p>\n
Just six minutes later, Butland atoned for his first-half error with a superb one-handed save to stop Bruce Anderson’s bottom-corner header.<\/p>\n
Substitute Youssef Chermiti then scored his first Rangers goal since joining the club in a \u00a310m deal from Everton with a 72nd-minute strike that Beach should have kept out.<\/p>\n
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\n Youssef Chermiti scored his first goal for the club<\/p>\n
Rangers were denied a fourth late on as Nicolas Raskin’s goal was disallowed for offside.<\/p>\n
Victory in R\u00f6hl’s first home game in charge moves Rangers up to fifth, 13 points behind leaders Hearts, while Kilmarnock drop to eighth.<\/p>\n
R\u00f6hl: Win a ‘small step’ in recovery<\/p>\n
R\u00f6hl believes the win is no more than a “small step” in the rehabilitation of the Ibrox club.<\/p>\n
The 36-year-old was installed as Russell Martin’s successor last Monday and after a first win over Kilmarnock, is looking ahead to a trip to Hibernian in midweek followed by their Scottish League Cup semi-final against Celtic at Hampden Park next Sunday.<\/p>\n
“I must say I really enjoyed our performance,” said the ex-Sheffield Wednesday boss. “Everything was not perfect, but it was a good step forward.<\/p>\n
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\n Danny R\u00f6hl celebrates his first win in charge of Rangers<\/p>\n
“(A) first win is always important for the group to create the confidence. I saw much more good things. Thursday was a big disappointment, not just the tactical part but how we played with intensity.<\/p>\n
“Today it was much better. It is a small step in our journey, we know where we want to go.It helps to lift the confidence of the group and for me, it was important to see a team on the pitch who was working hard, ready to go.<\/p>\n
“I saw some good individual steps forward. All in all, I’m happy. I know we still have to improve a lot of things, it’s not more than three points. You have to win this game if you want to do more: we did and now we go forward.<\/p>\n
“On Monday, we’ll watch the game back, we’ll show them what was good and what we have to improve and then I want to see again the next step on Wednesday.”<\/p>\n
Kettlewell backs goalkeeper Beach to bounce back from errors<\/p>\n
Kilmarnock boss Stuart Kettlewell backed inexperienced back-up goalkeeper Beach to bounce back from a tough afternoon.<\/p>\n
Kettlewell, who revealed there was genuine anger in the dressing room afterwards about all three goals conceded, said: “You’re not going to lock yourself up in a room and feel sorry for yourself.<\/p>\n
“He’s a big personality, a confident lad. He’s made a couple of errors and one he’s punished for.<\/p>\n
“He has to pick himself back up and he will. But you have to understand that if you make errors, you’re going to be hurt at this level.”<\/p>\n