Bojan Miovski scored twice as Rangers closed the hole to the Scottish Premiership prime two with a 3-0 win at Kilmarnock.
Rangers took the lead within the thirty third minute with a drive from the North Macedonia striker, who added a second within the 54th minute with a tremendous end from contained in the field.
The objectives doubled Miovski’s tally for the Govan membership since signing from Girona in the summertime and the travelling followers celebrated additional when Spurs loanee Mikey Moore got here off the bench so as to add a 3rd within the 81st minute earlier than having a second chalked off.
Killie’s pissed off boss Stuart Kettlewell was despatched off by referee Kevin Clancy within the 72nd minute, presumably for dissent, on an evening to be forgotten for the Ayrshire facet, who missed a number of possibilities.
Rangers moved again into fourth place and to inside six factors of leaders Hearts and Celtic, who play at Parkhead on Sunday, with not less than one in every of them assured to drop factors.
The Gers followers’ pre-match show of flares crammed half the bottom with smoke initially of the sport which quickly sped from finish to finish.
Within the eighth minute Gers midfielder Connor Barron slung a free-kick from the appropriate into the field and Miovski’s header drew a save from Killie goalkeeper Tobi Oluwayemi.
On the different finish, Marcus Dackers cleared Rangers keeper Jack Butland’s crossbar with a header from Scott Tiffoney’s whipped-in cross earlier than Ibrox winger Djeidi Gassama fired over from 12 yards.
Within the 18th minute Killie attacker Bruce Anderson raced away from the absent Gers defence, however his dink over Butland was cleared away from the road by Barron, though the offside flag was up.
Two minutes later, 19-year-old Findlay Curtis took over from the injured Nedim Bajrami.
Miovski’s opener got here as Rangers pressed Killie into their very own space and he handed up three attainable possibilities to get a shot away, preferring the go, however when the ball fell to him on the sting of the field amid a clutch of Killie gamers, he fired it low previous Oluwayemi for his third aim of the season.
Rangers’ Mikey Moore celebrates scoring at Kilmarnock
There was a VAR verify for a Kilmarnock penalty early within the second half when midfielder David Watson was challenged by Mohamed Diomande on the sting of the world, however referee Clancy was not requested to go his pitchside monitor.
Moments later, on a Rangers break, midfielder Nicolas Raskin performed in Miovski and the previous Aberdeen striker wrong-footed Oluwayemi with a assured shot from 12 yards.
The house facet weren’t but completed and Butland brilliantly beat away a deflected shot from Anderson earlier than saving a header from captain Robbie Deas.
Watson then headed extensive simply earlier than Kettlewell was despatched packing and there was extra ache to comply with.
Match-again Moore, one in every of a number of Gers substitutes, drove on the Kilmarnock field earlier than curling the ball into the nook.
He had the ball within the web once more with a intelligent chip, however Clancy was requested to go to his pitchside monitor this time and dominated out the hassle for an infringement by Gers defender Emmanuel Fernandez on Watson within the build-up.
