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Rangers Win…..Now Over To You Celtic

Goals from Kris Boyd, Kenny Miller and Steven Whittaker gave Rangers a comfortable 3-0 win in a match they played some of their best football in my opinion over the last few weeks. Rangers made a couple of adjustments to the side that beat St Mirren 2-1, Kenny Miller came back in for John Fleck and Lee McCulloch came in for Kyle Lafferty.

Rangers(4-4-2): McGregor, Whittaker, Weir, Wilson, Papac, Naismith, McCulloch, Thomson, Davis, Boyd, Miller

Kilmarnock(4-4-2): Brown, Hay, Fowler, Wright, O’Leary, Pascali, Bryson, Skelton, Hammil, Kyle, Fernandez

The Champions went ahead at Ibrox on 7 minutes when Kevin Thomson picked up the ball on the right-hand side of midfield, drifted inwards to create an opening and he played an intelligent pass into the box for Kris Boyd to latch on to and slide the ball under Mark Brown for his 14th goal against Kilmarnock. The in-form Rangers hitman had another goal controversial disallowed for offside – McCulloch appeared to be offside, however, I thought Boyd bent his run to keep him on.

After a fine save from Steven Naismith’s effort, Mark Brown was forced to pick the ball out the back of the net again when Lee McCulloch managed to slide the ball through an open Kilmarnock defence for Kenny Miller just to poke the ball into the corner past the Ex-Rangers and Ex-Celtic Goalkeeper. Killie still had confidence to attack, and made some fine passing moves which forced McGregor into a couple of decent saves, firstly, from Manuel Pascali and then a long-range effort from Kevin Kyle was palmed to safety by the Rangers No.1

After 35 minutes, the third goal came through Steven Whittaker – but mainly due to the sheer work-rate of Kenny Miller as he nodded the ball past Frazer Wright out to the wing, almost isolated, he used his pace to break away and cut the ball for the onrushing Steven Whittaker to fumble the ball into the net and the second attempt.

Walter Smith said after the match, “We’re delighted with the win. It’s always slightly awkward coming back after an international break to get everybody together. In the first half we created quite a number of opportunities and we didn’t take them all. In the second half, I was a little bit disappointed that that creation seemed to dry up. We didn’t make very many opportunities in the second half of the game until maybe late on. In the other SPL games, Hibs lost ground on the Old Firm by drawing 1-1 away to St Mirren, Motherwell drew 1-1 with Aberdeen, Falkirk got their first home win and Hearts lost 2-1 to St Johnstone with Csaba Laszlo rumoured to have resigned from Tynecastle.

Its now over to Celtic again, away to Dundee United – C’mon United, do us a turn!

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