Rangers Take Second Place As Gerrard Marches On & Others Slip Up – Whisper It Quietly We’re Above Celtic

With plenty of positives to take from Rangers’ Europa League draw with Villarreal in midweek, it was back to Premiership action yesterday and an Ibrox based affair against St Johnstone.

Fans had few worries going into the match given the spirit and confidence shown in the last game and the players proved they’d taken a damn good boost from our Spanish adventure by hammering five past our opposition at the weekend.

James Tavernier opened the scoring and was joined on the scoresheet by Alfredo Morelos, Scott Arfield, Kyle Lafferty and Daniel Candeias – although the visitors did help themselves to a consolation from the penalty spot but nobody was going to let that ruin the day.

Hearts and Celtic dropped points this weekend so the victory propelled us into second place in the table and we are now five behind Hearts, ahead of both Hibernian and Livingston on goal difference.

This, of course, hasn’t happened, but Celtic are behind us in sixth place so whisper it quietly.

We have a long way to go yet and there’s plenty of games left in the season, but if you don’t enjoy weekends like that you’re following the wrong sport.

Rangers				St Johnstone
Tavernier (9), Morelos (34), Arfield (52), Lafferty (74), Candeias (79)				Alston (pen 77)
McGregor				Clark
Tavernier			56	Foster
Goldson				Kerr
Katic				Shaughnessy
Flanagan				Tanser
McCrorie				Wright			61
Candeias				Alston
Coulibaly			63	Craig			57
Arfield				Kennedy
Kent			71	Wotherspoon
Morelos				Watt			72
Substitutes
Worrall				Anderson
Dorrans			63	Kane			72
Ejaria			56	Swanson			61
Lafferty			71	Mitchell
Foderingham				McMillan
Halliday				Nydam			57
Middleton				Callachan

Game Statistics
21	Goal attempts	11
10	On Target	3
7	Corners	4
9	Fouls	10
0	Yellow Cards	2
0	Red Cards	0
61	%	39