Rangers 2-0 Partick Thistle: result and report
Premiership · Saturday 1 October 2016
Result
Rangers 2-0 Partick Thistle
Premiership · Saturday 1 October 2016, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Rangers 2-0 Partick Thistle: match report
Rangers defeated Partick Thistle 2-0 in the Premiership on Saturday 1 October 2016. The half-time score was 2-0.
Niko Kranjčar opened the scoring in the 33rd minute. Rangers's goals came from Niko Kranjčar (33') and Andy Halliday (40'). Partick Thistle did not score.
Discipline: Rangers received 1 yellow card; Partick Thistle received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Rangers were 5th on 11 points from 7 and Partick Thistle 10th on 5 points from 6. Rangers went on to finish that season 3rd with 69 points, and Partick Thistle 7th with 42.
Going into the match Rangers's last five read L-D-L-W-W and Partick Thistle's D-D-L-L-L.
Key events
- 33'Goal · Niko Kranjčar
- 40'Goal · Andy Halliday
- 44'Yellow card · Chris Erskine
- 45'Yellow card · Philippe Senderos
- 57'Yellow card · Ziggy Gordon
Team news
Rangers line-up
Wes Foderingham, James Tavernier, Danny Wilson, Philippe Senderos, Lee Wallace, Andy Halliday, Niko Kranjčar, J. Holt, Kenny Miller, Barrie McKay, Martyn Waghorn
Partick Thistle line-up
Ryan Scully, Liam Lindsay, Daniel Devine, Ziggy Gordon, Callum Booth, Abdul Osman, David Amoo, Chris Erskine, Steven Lawless, Ryan Edwards, Adebayo Azeez