Rangers 2-2 Hearts: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 21 March 2009

Result

Rangers 2-2 Hearts

Premiership · Saturday 21 March 2009, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Rangers 2-2 Hearts: match report

Rangers drew with Hearts 2-2 in the Premiership on Saturday 21 March 2009. The half-time score was 2-0.

Kyle Lafferty opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Rangers's goals came from Kyle Lafferty (9') and Barry Ferguson (44'). Hearts scored through Christos Karipidis (64') and Rubén Palazuelos (67').

Discipline: Rangers received 1 yellow card; Hearts received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Rangers were 2nd on 60 points from 28 and Hearts 3rd on 48 points from 29. Rangers went on to finish that season 1st with 86 points, and Hearts 3rd with 59.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 7 Rangers wins, 1 draw and 2 for Hearts.

Going into the match Rangers's last five read L-W-W-D-W and Hearts's L-W-W-D-W.

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 9'Goal · Kyle LaffertyRangers · 1-0
  • 38'Yellow card · Christian NadéHearts
  • 44'Goal · Barry FergusonRangers · 2-0
  • 64'Goal · Christos KaripidisHearts · 2-1
  • 67'Goal · Rubén PalazuelosHearts · 2-2
  • 84'Yellow card · M. TullbergHearts
  • 86'Yellow card · Pedro MendesRangers
  • 90'Yellow card · Bruno AguiarHearts

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Rangers 7, draws 1, Hearts 2.

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