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3 minutes ago, alexscottislegend said:
What did he do? Assist?
Oh... Yes.
Free-kick whipped in, Hearts pushed up so Morelos had the ball in acres of space with just the 'keeper to beat; he lays it off to Kent to walk it in to an open net.
He could've went himself, but makes sure by passing it.
1-0.
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Well done Morelos.
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Steven Gerrard says he wants Ibrox to be "rocking" when Rangers host Scottish Premiership leaders Hearts on Sunday.
The Gers stormed to a 3-1 home win against Rapid Vienna in the Europa League on Thursday, and are hoping to reduce their eight-point deficit on Hearts this weekend.
Gerrard is hoping that the Ibrox fans can replicate the European atmosphere for their league encounter, saying: "We'd love Ibrox to be bouncing and rocking again. I'm sure the supporters are going to be going to Ibrox in good spirits after last night.
"But we also have to play our part. We can't start slow and wait for the crowd to lift us. Last night the players fed off the atmosphere and it really took them to a really high level. But the players' quality, their tempo and intensity made the fans even more vocal."It worked perfectly yesterday and as a manager I'd love to see that again on Sunday. Ibrox was rocking, it was shaking, it was bouncing. I've experienced that many, many times at Anfield. The support was almost like a 12th man and it felt like that last night."
"We're in good form and I feel we are ready and capable of going through to Glasgow and getting points," he said. "I think it'll be a great game and I'm hopeful we can do enough to come out on top.
"We've faced a number of tests so far this season, however, and we've managed to deal with every one we've been presented with. So I'm hopeful that we can do the same again on Sunday. "
Team news
Ryan Jack is expected to rejoin Steven Gerrard's squad on Sunday. The midfielder has not featured since straining a calf while on Scotland duty last month.
Long-term knee injury victim Jamie Murphy remains out while Lee Wallace faces another week or so on the sidelines with a groin injury.
Uche Ikpeazu is an injury doubt for Hearts after missing the last few games, and it is touch and go as to his inclusion this weekend.
Opta stats
Rangers are unbeaten in each of their last five Scottish Premiership matches against Hearts (W4 D1), winning their last three - the last time they went on a longer winning run against Hearts in the competition came between December 2001 and December 2003 (run of nine consecutive victories).
Hearts have won just one of their last 22 top-flight visits to Ibrox (D5 L16), a 2-1 victory in March 2012.
Hearts manager Craig Levein believes his side can get a result at Ibrox
Rangers have won six consecutive home league matches, scoring 18 times whilst conceding only two goals. They haven't won seven on the bounce in the top-flight at Ibrox since April 2010, when the seventh match in that streak was a 2-0 win over Hearts.
This is Hearts' best start to a season in the Scottish Premiership (19 points from their opening seven games) since 2005-06, when they won each of their first seven matches.
Former Hearts forward and current Rangers player Kyle Lafferty has scored five goals in six Scottish Premiership starts against Hearts at Ibrox for the Gers
https://www.skysports.com/football/rangers-vs-hearts/preview/391184
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Tavernier and Morelos were also in the Europa League Team of the Week.
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Rangers 3 - 1 Hearts
FGS Morelos
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That was alright, eh?
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1 hour ago, buster. said:
Looking ahead to next season.........
Whisper it, but why not try and sign Scott Allan on a Bosman in January ?
I always thought he was the answer, but I suspect bridges have been burnt.
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I find it funny that last season the constant refrain was 'play two up top', and this season it's 'play one or the other, two doesn't work, a blind man can see it'.
We knew Livingston were going to defend deep in a compact 4-4-2, so playing two forwards, even a wide forward, was a logical thing to do.
For me, it was the combinations between the midfield-three and Candeias and Lafferty that was the main reason we didn't create anything. SG plays with narrow wingers -- it's worked wonderfully this season -- so our width comes from our Full-backs. It requires Lafferty and Candeias (the narrow wingers yesterday) to find space; they were just anonymous, and didn't move at all. Our midfield couldn't find them.
SG then changes it to bring on Kent into the middle to drive and create the space by beating a man. And then with Middleton later on we went that same way but with more traditional wing play. Neither Middleton or Candeias did anything.
There's a lot of criticism about "tinkering", but I don't think that's an issue. There were 4 changes from the St Johnstone game; One seemed tactical (Worral for Katic), two were reverting to first-choice (Ejaria/McCrorie & Barasic/Flanagan), with the Lafferty and Kent change also tactical. Two were actually strengthening our team, and the other two were logical tactical moves.
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53 minutes ago, BlackSocksRedTops said:
I don't think that's the biggest issue. The fact that we almost invite these balls into the box by giving away free kicks in stupid places is more worrying for me. The motherwell game should have been wake up call
These teams play for that; no team is going to stop those free-kicks -- hell, anywhere on the pitch and they'll lump it into the box!
WE need to be better at winning the aerial battles when they do come in.
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1 minute ago, BlackSocksRedTops said:
Is that good enough? That passage of play at the end sums him up IMO. Too rash with the shot across the goal
I don't think that was a shot.
I'd be frustrated if he was trying to shoot from that angle -- you would've moaned at that too.
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That was the worse performance of the season.
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That's a penalty!!
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I was going to say: Have we even hit the target?
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Stop putting it into the 'keeper's hands!!
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1-0 Livingston.
Don't know how it gets through in the end, but it does.
Oh, McGregor...
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I like Worral: he's read and won everything in the air, and has been composed in possession.
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We've been dominant, and have cut them open a few times, but without quite having that quality on the final ball.
They've missed two sitters, though.
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Are there any Livingston fans there today?
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That's a penalty!!
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Worral's probably in for these aerial battles -- he's won a few already.
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Should've been 1-0 to Livingston there.
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The pitch looks horrible just watching it.
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[FT] Rangers 3 - 1 Hearts (Kent 3, Morelos 13, Arfield 32)
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McGregor has had to make a couple of very good saves.
It's strangely end to end.