RANGERS have made it ten wins from ten games this season after a 3-0 victory over Livingston at Ibrox this afternoon.
Mark Warburton’s side maintained their perfect run with another deserved triumph on the day the Light Blues marked Armed Forces day.
Goals from Lee Wallace, Martyn Waghorn and Nicky Law clinched the points for the Gers but it wasn’t their best performance of the campaign as Livingston frustrated Warburton’s side for periods of the game.
Boss Warburton fielded the same eleven that beat Raith 5-0 on home soil last weekend and while there wasn’t a repeat showing, the outcome was the most important thing for the 53-year-old.
Rangers should have opened the scoring with just three minutes on the clock but Waghorn couldn’t beat Darren Jamieson as he was once again left to wait for his first goal from open play at Ibrox.
After Declan Gallagher came close from a Miles Hippolyte free-kick, Warburton’s side made the breakthrough in emphatic fashion.
A short free-kick from Andy Halliday was played into Wallace’s path by Barrie McKay and the Gers skipper thundered a left foot shot into the bottom corner from 25 yards.
It was the lead that Rangers deserved but Livi continued to cause more problems than Warburton would have liked, Wes Foderingham turning a sweet strike from Liam Buchanan over the bar.
After James Tavernier curled a free-kick just wide, Waghorn finally got his goal as he swivelled in the area and his low shot found the far corner of Jamieson’s net via the post.
It could have been 3-0 just two minutes later but Nathan Oduwa saw his curling effort from the edge of the box go narrowly wide as Rangers looked to kill the game and clinch the points.
The second half was to prove a frustrating affair for Warburton’s side as they struggled to find their rhythm and the goal that would have ended any Livi hopes of a remarkable comeback.
With eleven minutes left, Rangers finally made another breakthrough as two substitutes combined to ensure it would be a tenth straight win for the Light Blues.
Kenny Miller slipped the ball through the Livi defence and Law fired a shot high into Jamieson’s net to give the Ibrox crowd something to shout about once again.
Dean Shiels came close to making it 4-0 in the dying minutes but it was three goals and three points for Rangers as they continued their stunning start to the season.
RANGERS: Foderingham; Tavernier, Kiernan, Wilson, Wallace; Halliday, Zelalem (Shiels 73), Holt (Law 63); Oduwa, McKay (Miller 63), Waghorn
Scorers: Wallace 16, Waghorn 39, Law 79
Booked:
LIVINGSTON: Jamieson; Millen, Gallagher, Sives (Neill 27), Longridge; Glen; Faria, Cole, Pittman (Gibbons 90), Hippolyte; Buchanan (Mullen 69)
Scorers:
Booked: Cole, Longridge, Hippolyte, Pittman
Referee: Greg Aitken
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