Hearts 0-4 Rangers: Gers earn joint-largest win of season at Tynecastle | OneFootball

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·1 October 2022

Hearts 0-4 Rangers: Gers earn joint-largest win of season at Tynecastle

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Rangers recorded back-to-back wins for the first time since August with a 4-0 demolition of 10-man Hearts.

The pressure was cranked up on Giovanni van Bronckhorst and his players after a testing September saw them beaten 4-0 by both Celtic and Ajax as well as losing 3-0 at home to Napoli.


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But the Gers are back to the top of the Scottish Premiership for a few hours at least after recording their joint-largest victory of the season.

Antonio Colak broke the deadlock after just six minutes when he headed home from a delicious Ryan Kent corner, and the Croatian doubled the advantage on the half-hour mark from a tight angle.

Things went from bad to worse for Hearts as Cameron Devlin was dismissed minutes before the end of the first half, giving Robbie Neilson's men a mountain to climb.

were able to play the second half at a slower pace, but eventually added a third when Alfredo Morelos scored his first goal of the season having come on for Colak.

Kent, who had run Hearts ragged, got in on the act himself in stoppage time as Rangers secured a crucial win in Edinburgh.

Van Bronckhorst and his charges will now turn their attentions to Tuesday's trip to Liverpool in the Champions League, while Hearts will have to dust themselves off before the glamour visit of Fiorentina in the Europa Conference League on Thursday.

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