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RANGERS’ meeting with Hibernian in the SPFL Development League was abandoned at half time after one of the assistant referees took ill.

 

The inclusion of the senior players appeared to give the whole team a massive lift, and they began the game at a breakneck tempo, putting Hibs under some real pressure with some crisp passing and excellent skill.

 

New man Amin Bouzaig was first to test Hibees’ ‘keeper Ross Laidlaw as he cut in from the right wing and unleashed a stunning effort that arrowed for the top corner before being clawed away at the final moment by a fine Laidlaw save, before the rebound fell to Ross Lyon on the edge of the area, with his shot being claimed by the visiting keeper.

 

That proved to be a warning for Hibs – and it was one they didn’t heed as Gers took the lead with 11 minutes on the clock.

 

A loose kick-out from Laidlaw was seized upon by David Bates on the right wing, and a super piece of vision from him saw him thread the ideal ball through the two Hibs centre-halves for Joe Dodoo to latch onto, and he made no mistake with his finish, firing low to Laidlaw’s left.

 

Within a minute, it was sensationally 2-0, this time with Dodoo turning provider.

 

Picking up the ball on the left, his ball infield found the run of the haring Zak Rudden who took it in his stride and from an angle, he fired into the far corner to hand Gers a cushion.

 

Josh Jeffries then came very close to making it 3-0 with an excellent effort from the edge of the area after being set up by Dodoo, but the drive was deflected over, before completely against the run of play, Hibs pulled a goal back.

 

Winning a free-kick out on the left, James Keatings delivered a superb ball that trialist Neal Eardley – capped 16 times for Wales and a Premier League player for Blackpool – tapped home from eight yards out.

 

That proved to be the final action of the game, with the teams not re-emerging from the tunnel after the interval.

 

Rangers were keen for the match to continue with a replacement official from the stands, as was the referee, but that required the agreement of both teams which couldn’t be reached.

 

Everyone at Rangers sends the official involved their best wishes and hopes for a speedy recovery.

 

 

 

RANGERS: Robby McCrorie; Bates, Senderos, Kiernan, Ross McCrorie; Crooks, Lyon, Jeffries; Dodoo, Rudden, Bouzaig.

 

SUBS: Wright, Barjonas, Burt, Beerman, Bradley, Ashmore, Gibson.

 

HIBERNIAN: Laidlaw, Trialist, Crane, Porteus, Waugh, Martin, Harris, Murray, Shaw, Keatings, Gullan.

 

http://rangers.co.uk/news/academy-news/rangers-a-hibernian-a/

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Hopefully the assistant makes a full and speedy recovery.

 

Looks to me as if Hibs used it as an opportunity to abandon a game in which they were clearly inferior and already trailing. Seems teams of a green persuasion have that in them.... Sporting integrity indeed.

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