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Rangers 5-0 Ross County: Steven Gerrard’s side extend lead to 23 points

souhaib by souhaib
January 23, 2021
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Rangers' Filip Helander scores
Filip Helander shrugged off his marker as he headed Rangers into a 2-0 lead

Rangers celebrated Steven Gerrard’s 150th game as manager by stretching their Scottish Premiership lead to 23 points after thumping Ross County.

Poor marking allowed Ryan Kent and Filip Helander to head the home side into a healthy lead before Joe Aribo’s fine finish before half-time.

Ryan Jack scored his return from injury before Connor Goldson’s headed finish.

They could even afford a missed penalty from James Tavernier as they remain unbeaten in the league this season.

County struck woodwork twice after the break, but by then Rangers were well on their way to their ninth win in a row over the side who remain third bottom of the table.

John Hughes’ side had arrived buoyed by last week’s 4-1 thumping of Aberdeen, but they never looked in danger of spoiling the occasion for Gerrard as he became the fastest-ever Rangers manager to reach his 150th game in charge – his 926 days beating Dick Advocaat by 24 hours.

By bravely handing 17-year-old Leo Hjelde – signed on loan from Celtic 24 hours earlier – his debut and dropping winger Regan Charles-Cooke and forward Jermaine Hylton, Hughes had signalled his intent to keep it tight.

County’s high press did manage to trouble Rangers – but only for the six minutes it took for the hosts to score with their first foray into the Highlanders’ box.

Hjelde was too late on the scene as Kent looped in a finish after being found unmarked by Alfredo Morelos’ header across the face of goal.

Top scorer Tavernier blotted his copybook by having a weak spot kick saved by Ross Laidlaw, although justice was probably done as Morelos looked to be fouled outside the area.

Rangers remained relentless and Kent fired a low effort against a post before Helander shrugged off his marker to rise in space and head home a Borna Barisic corner.

The defending was similarly poor as Aribo sidestepped Charlie Lakin and Iain Vigurs before a sublime curling finish.

County started the second half with plenty of purpose and midfielder Harry Paton sent a low drive off the inside of a post and centre-half Alex Iacovitti should have done better than loop a header off the bar when found unmarked at a free-kick.

Gerrard responded with a clutch of substitutions and one of the replacements, Jack, fired low past Laidlaw before Goldson rounded off the scoring with a stooping header from a corner.

It was perhaps a fitting flourish considering the centre-half has featured in 142 of Gerrard’s games in charge.

Man of the match – Ryan Kent

Rangers' Ryan Kent is congratulated by Alfredo Morelos
It was an all-round team performance from Rangers, but Kent did more than most with a goal and another strike against a post

What did we learn?

If reigning champions Celtic were hoping that last weekend’s draw with Motherwell, which ended a run of six straight wins, would knock Rangers out of their stride, they were sadly disappointed.

Neil Lennon will have found little grounds for renewed optimism about securing a 10th consecutive title from an efficient performance with few signs of the post-New Year stumbles suffered by Gerrard’s side in the last two seasons.

County came into the game after a mini-revival, having only lost once in four games, but former Celtic centre-half Hughes will consider this dismantling of his experimental defence in isolation.

Especially so considering Dingwall men have never beaten Rangers in 15 meetings and now have failed to score in their last six meetings.

What they said

Rangers manger Steven Gerrard tells Rangers TV: “I thought it was a really strong performance, another home win and a clean sheet – obviously five different scorers.

“We flipped the formation a bit to a 4-3-2-1 to be a bit more bold and aggressive and really take the game to Ross County and I thought we looked really dangerous throughout.”

Ross County manager John Hughes tells Sky Sports: “We were set up to be hard to beat and, if you do that and give away two poor goals early on, you are up against it.

“However, our season will not be defined by games against Rangers – credit to them for the way they play football and pass – but we showed plenty of spirit and will learn from this.”

What’s next?

Rangers next travel to Edinburgh to face fourth-top Hibernian on Wednesday (19:45 GMT), when County also host Motherwell.

Player of the match

KentRyan Kent

Rangers

  1. Squad number14Player nameKent

  2. Squad number8Player nameJack

  3. Squad number31Player nameBarisic

  4. Squad number10Player nameDavis

  5. Squad number17Player nameAribo

  6. Squad number5Player nameHelander

  7. Squad number7Player nameHagi

  8. Squad number6Player nameGoldson

  9. Squad number16Player namePatterson

  10. Squad number9Player nameDefoe

  11. Squad number11Player nameItten

  12. Squad number18Player nameKamara

  13. Squad number2Player nameTavernier

  14. Squad number20Player nameMorelos

  15. Squad number1Player nameMcGregor

  16. Squad number15Player nameZungu

Ross County

  1. Squad number8Player nameShaw

  2. Squad number1Player nameLaidlaw

  3. Squad number23Player nameNaismith

  4. Squad number19Player nameLakin

  5. Squad number4Player nameHjelde

  6. Squad number5Player nameMorris

  7. Squad number24Player namePaton

  8. Squad number6Player nameDraper

  9. Squad number11Player nameVigurs

  10. Squad number22Player nameTillson

  11. Squad number14Player nameHylton

  12. Squad number15Player nameWatson

  13. Squad number2Player nameRandall

  14. Squad number16Player nameIacovitti

  15. Squad number28Player nameAndreu

  16. Squad number17Player nameCharles-Cook

Line-ups

Rangers

Formation 4-2-3-1

1McGregor

2Tavernier6Goldson5Helander31Barisic

10Davis18Kamara

7Hagi17Aribo14Kent

20Morelos

  • 1McGregor
  • 2TavernierSubstituted forPattersonat 70′minutes
  • 6Goldson
  • 5Helander
  • 31Barisic
  • 10DavisSubstituted forJackat 61′minutes
  • 18KamaraSubstituted forZunguat 61′minutesBooked at 76mins
  • 7Hagi
  • 17AriboSubstituted forIttenat 62′minutes
  • 14Kent
  • 20MorelosSubstituted forDefoeat 62′minutes

Substitutes

  • 3Bassey
  • 8Jack
  • 9Defoe
  • 11Itten
  • 15Zungu
  • 16Patterson
  • 25Roofe
  • 26Balogun
  • 33McLaughlin

Ross County

Formation 3-5-2

1Laidlaw

5Morris16Iacovitti4Hjelde

23Naismith6Draper11Vigurs19Lakin2Randall

24Paton8Shaw

  • 1Laidlaw
  • 5Morris
  • 16IacovittiBooked at 13mins
  • 4HjeldeBooked at 64mins
  • 23Naismith
  • 6DraperSubstituted forTillsonat 71′minutes
  • 11VigursSubstituted forAndreuat 70′minutes
  • 19LakinSubstituted forCharles-Cookat 59′minutes
  • 2RandallSubstituted forWatsonat 53′minutes
  • 24PatonSubstituted forHyltonat 59′minutes
  • 8Shaw

Substitutes

  • 7Gardyne
  • 9Mckay
  • 14Hylton
  • 15Watson
  • 17Charles-Cook
  • 22Tillson
  • 25Donaldson
  • 28Andreu
  • 31Munro

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