Glasgow Rangers strolled to another straightforward Premiership win this afternoon at Ibrox.
The Light Blues defeated St Mirren 4-0 to record their third consecutive league victory, and Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s men are building momentum ahead of a busy few weeks prior to the World Cup.
Goals from Antonio Colak (who else?) and James Tavernier gave the Gers a routine two-goal lead at the interval, and the onus was on the home side to score as many as possible in the second half.
Two more goals arrived, but it took Rangers until the last 20 minutes to get them. Colak notched his fourth league brace of the campaign while Fashion Sakala repaid Van Bronckhorst with a nice finish to round off the win.
There were plenty of great performances, but yet again it was captain James Tavernier who stood up and inspired the team.
Tavernier was excellent against St Mirren
Tavernier once again set the standard for this Rangers side and he received a SofaScore rating of 8.5, just behind Sakala and Colak (both 8.8).
The captain took 125 touches during the match, the highest number in the team (22 more than Borna Barisic), and proved that he always wanted to get involved and try and drive on the Gers to create as many opportunities as possible.
Rangers Review journalist Joshua Barrie praised Tavernier following a solid first-half performance, saying that he was “making a good impact infield”, allowing Sakala to do the majority of the work on the right wing.
His positional play seemed to work to excellent effect, with the right back winning five out of his six duels, making two key passes and having three shots on target, and he was unlucky not to add to his goal tally.
Even when he did move into wide positions deep into the opposition area, the Englishman made four successful crosses and succeeded with his only dribble attempt.
It was another solid team effort, keeping a clean sheet and giving the Ibrox crowd a few goals to cheer.
The result will be a confidence booster for Van Bronckhorst’s side ahead of Liverpool’s visit to Glasgow on Wednesday night, and with a boisterous home crowd awaiting them, the result could well be different from the one at Anfield.
