Rangers 7-1 Hamilton Academical: result and report
Premiership · Saturday 6 December 2008
Result
Rangers 7-1 Hamilton Academical
Premiership · Saturday 6 December 2008, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
Rangers 7-1 Hamilton Academical: match report
Rangers defeated Hamilton Academical 7-1 in the Premiership on Saturday 6 December 2008. It was 2-1 at half-time.
James McArthur opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Rangers's goals came from Kenny Miller (11'), Kris Boyd (28'), Kris Boyd (51', penalty), Kris Boyd (62'), Kyle Lafferty (80'), Nacho Novo (88') and Steven Davis (89'). Hamilton Academical scored through James McArthur (2').
Discipline: Rangers received 1 yellow card; Hamilton Academical received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.
Going into the game Rangers were 2nd on 36 points from 16 and Hamilton Academical 11th on 14 points from 16. Rangers went on to finish that season 1st with 86 points, and Hamilton Academical 9th with 41.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Rangers win, 0 draws and 0 for Hamilton Academical.
Going into the match Rangers's last five read L-W-W-D-W and Hamilton Academical's W-D-L-L-D.
Key events
- 2'Goal · James McArthur
- 11'Goal · Kenny Miller
- 28'Goal · Kris Boyd
- 30'Yellow card · Simon Mensing
- 34'Yellow card · Madjid Bougherra
- 51'Red card · Martin Canning
- 51'Penalty goal · Kris Boyd
- 62'Goal · Kris Boyd
- 80'Goal · Kyle Lafferty
- 88'Goal · Nacho Novo
- 89'Goal · Steven Davis
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