Hearts 2-1 Rangers: result and report
Premiership · Saturday 29 November 2008
Result
Hearts 2-1 Rangers
Premiership · Saturday 29 November 2008, 12:30 UTC · half-time 2-1
Hearts 2-1 Rangers: match report
Hearts defeated Rangers 2-1 in the Premiership on Saturday 29 November 2008. It was 2-1 at half-time.
Marius Zaliukas opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Hearts's goals came from Marius Zaliukas (20') and Laryea Kingston (23'). Rangers scored through an own goal by Christos Karipidis (26').
Discipline: Hearts received 1 yellow card and 1 red card; Rangers received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Hearts were 3rd on 26 points from 15 and Rangers 2nd on 36 points from 15. Hearts went on to finish that season 3rd with 59 points, and Rangers 1st with 86.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Hearts win, 2 draws and 7 for Rangers.
Going into the match Hearts's last five read W-W-W-W-L and Rangers's W-W-D-W-D.
Key events
- 20'Goal · Marius Zaliukas
- 22'Yellow card · Madjid Bougherra
- 23'Goal · Laryea Kingston
- 26'Own goal · Christos Karipidis
- 44'Yellow card · Kris Boyd
- 44'Yellow card · Steven Whittaker
- 71'Yellow card · Lee Wallace
- 76'Second yellow · Lee Wallace
- 90'Yellow card · Kyle Lafferty
Head-to-head
Team news
Rangers expected line-up (4-5-1)
Ronald Waterreus, Alan Hutton, Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Julien Rodriguez, Fernando Ricksen, Hamed Namouchi, Peter Rosenkrands Løvenkrands, Barry Ferguson, Brahim Hemdani, C. Burke, Ian Murray