Kilmarnock 0 Rangers 2: match report

By Roddy Forsyth 953PM GMT 09 March 2010

One nonexistence Steven Whittaker scores the initial Rangers idea at Rugby Park Photo PA

Six games left and counting. Rangers competence be the theme of a takeover bid from Andrew Ellis nonetheless that stays to be seen but if the Monopolies Commission were still in life it would positively be alerted to the relentless allege of the Ibrox side on all accessible made at home honours.

Half a dozen victories some-more in the joining and the Scottish pretension is theirs after a stout opening opposite Kilmarnock at Rugby Park, where they strode on with goals from Steven Whittaker and Kenny Miller, both in the second half.

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The customarily warn was that Kris Boyd, on the track for his 100th joining idea for Rangers, lengthened a mini-drought opposite a bar who are customarily deliberate a landowner to means repairs at the hands of their former employee.

Having seen off Celtic last month on Robbie Keanes debut, no less Jimmy Calderwood spoken resolutely that his side could have history, not customarily by violence Rangers but by pulling off an Old Firm stand in when the Parkhead side lapse to Ayrshire for Saturdays Active Nation Scottish Cup quarter-final tie.

There was positively small to select in between the sides in conditions of goalmouth movement for twenty mins until Lee McCulloch sent Boyd loping off along the right for a cranky to the nearby post that was met by Danny Wilson still upfield after a dilemma flog but the teenage centre-backs try was stillborn, shut off at the post as Kilmarnock belatedly reacted to the danger.

Boyd, on the track for his miracle goal, was the target of a superb pointed by round from Miller after Kilmarnock conceded receive weakly in midfield and he roughly responded in next to character with a fantastic left feet bombardment that customarily customarily forsaken over the crossbar.

If Rangers often had the dilemma in receive and charge in the opening 45 mins they additionally endured dual critical alarms annoyed by the customarily arguable Allan McGregor. Just after the half-hour symbol he was called on to understanding with a curling cranky from Iain Flannigan on the Killie left.

It looked a candid take for the goalkeeper but someway the round was authorised to dump for Mehdi Taouil to try a pot from 10 yards. The Moroccans bid was driven with full force but additionally true at McGregor, who was visibly relieved to see the round booted away.

There was difficulty inside the Rangers box again from the same source when McGregor spilled a Finnigan free-kick with Manuel Pascali dangerously close but again the fire was doused prior to it could do damage. Having been incompetent to request vigour when opportunities presented themselves, Kilmarnock paid the common cost after the break.

The new thing was a fool punch as far as Kilmarnock were concerned. They lunged in to Rangers half customarily for David Weir to siphon a clearway low in to their domain for Miller to hold up fool around and work the round off to the more advanced Whittaker to accumulate and set upon low in to the far dilemma of the net.

Miller himself was on the scoresheet 7 mins later. This time Davis did the tough work on the right with a expostulate that was shut off by Cameron Bell but that rebounded for Miller to trounce high in to the net. For the on vacation await the party that constrained their courtesy in what remained of the record consisted in watch Boyd frantically attempting to reach his Rangers joining century, but his most appropriate try was thwarted by Jamie Hammill on the line.

Nacho Novo, who had arrived as a late deputy for Miller, roughly showed his co-worker how it was finished but his rising expostulate from a parsimonious point of view in damage time skipped off the crossbar and beyond. By that stage, though, the Rangers fans were often off to their buses and working out when they competence be means to celeberate the influence of their title.