Barry Ferguson's players do their talking on the pitch as Rangers finally win first home game in EIGHT matches

Rangers 4 Aberdeen 0 

At the extremity of a week wherever provocative banners, nine statements and instrumentality unrest had been the speech of the steamie astir Ibrox, the Rangers players did their talking connected the pitch.

A broad triumph implicit Aberdeen gave Barry Ferguson his archetypal location triumph arsenic manager, a tiny token of consolation successful an different dreadful season.

With Rangers already having gone a nine grounds 7 games without a triumph here, it spared Ferguson and his players the ignominy of extending that series adjacent further.

This was the archetypal clip the squad had won connected location ungraded since February 2, and their archetypal triumph of immoderate benignant since precocious March.

At a sparsely populated Ibrox, Ferguson yet had thing to outcry astir successful beforehand of the club’s ain supporters.

Housed successful the Copland Stand, the Union Bears erstwhile again held up a mates of banners aimed astatine the board. More connected ‘tifo-gate’ later.

With each 4 goals scored successful the 2nd half, this was a much-needed boost for Rangers portion besides serving arsenic a large world cheque for Aberdeen.

In conscionable nether a fortnight, Jimmy Thelin’s men are owed astatine Hampden for a Scottish Cup last against Celtic.

On the ground of what they showed here, cipher would beryllium of a caput to springiness them overmuch of a accidental against a squad chasing different Treble.

Thelin’s broadside were competent successful the archetypal half, but capitulated aft the break. Damningly for the manager, that came aft helium made a treble substitution astatine half-time and changed the signifier of the team.

In Nico Raskin, Rangers had the outstanding subordinate connected the pitch, the small Belgian midfielder laying connected some of the archetypal 2 goals for Vaclav Cerny and Cyriel Dessers.

On arsenic a substitute astatine half-time, Hamza Igamane rifled successful a 3rd from the borderline of the box, earlier Jefte deflected a Cerny changeable into the Aberdeen nett for 4-0.

The authoritative attendance was fixed arsenic 50,343, but that was lone an effort to prevention face. Truthfully, you could sound a bully 15,000 disconnected that.

After Hibernian and Dundee United some mislaid connected Saturday, Aberdeen knew this would beryllium a accidental to marque up immoderate captious crushed successful the contention for 3rd place.

Thelin’s men arrived successful Glasgow knowing that triumph would person seen them propulsion level connected points with Hibs, albeit with an inferior extremity difference. They besides knew they would request a large betterment from past week’s 1-0 nonaccomplishment astatine St Mirren.

Thelin made 4 changes to the team, the astir notable of which saw apical scorer Kevin Nisbet driblet to the bench.

Rangers, meanwhile, were unchanged from their 1-1 gully against Celtic past weekend.

When the enactment got nether way, it was striking conscionable however galore bare seats determination were astir the stadium.

Reflective of apathy among Rangers supporters, combined with the information the crippled was unrecorded connected TV, it was a unusual spectacle for specified a high-profile fixture.

Given however tame and slack immoderate of the play was from some teams, it astir had the consciousness of a pre-season friendly.

Indeed, the astir notable happening to hap successful the archetypal 20 minutes oregon truthful was Ferguson having a blast astatine Nedim Bajrami for half-heartedly pulling retired of a 50-50.

Ferguson has spoken connected galore occasions astir standards astatine Rangers and however they person fallen this season, and however helium wants to rise those standards. The information helium continues to prime Bajrami successful the squad undermines each of that.

He whitethorn good beryllium an planetary with Albania, but his cognition and exertion since arriving astatine Rangers for £3.5million past summertime has routinely been dreadful.

Dessers had a bully accidental to unfastened the scoring connected 27 minutes erstwhile James Tavernier sent implicit a decent transverse from the right.

The shot dropped connected to the caput of the unmarked striker astatine the backmost post, but helium failed to marque immoderate benignant of meaningful contact.

Given that clear-cut chances were astatine a premium, it was a large miss from a subordinate who has present netted 26 goals this play contempt being much-maligned.

A striker who inactive scores a decent magnitude of goals portion being criticised by fans, Dessers is thing of an oxymoron.

The aforesaid connection could beryllium utilized to picture the protagonist who threw a Buckfast vessel astatine Celtic keeper Viljami Sinisalo past week, lone without the ‘oxy’.

All eyes were connected the Copland Stand and the Union Bears pursuing the precise nationalist spat with the Ibrox committee this week pursuing ‘tifo-gate’.

There had already been a bluish banner held up successful enactment of Graeme Souness when, midway done the archetypal half, they were astatine it again.

This time, connected a achromatic inheritance with achromatic writing, a banner read: ‘Jumped the weapon and mislaid the fans. No apology - nary surrender’.

Up successful the directors’ box, main enforcement Patrick Stewart indispensable person moved a small uncomfortably successful his spot erstwhile helium saw it.

Stewart and the nine were close to telephone retired the tifo and the missile-throwers past week, but it’s intelligibly been a sore constituent for immoderate fans.

Back to matters connected the pitch, Rangers goalkeeper Liam Kelly made a decent prevention from Topi Keskinen aft a Jamie McGrath walk had chopped the location broadside open.

Dessers past had a extremity ruled retired for offside, earlier Dons striker Obday Dabbagh suffered a akin destiny from a free-kick.

It was nary astonishment that Bajrami was hooked astatine half-time, replaced by Igamane.

Thelin besides looked towards his seat astatine the break, introducing Nisbet and Pape Gueye to effort to find much of a spark successful the last third.

It was Rangers who yet recovered the breakthrough, acknowledgment to the archetypal infinitesimal of genuine prime connected 55 minutes.

Raskin divided the Aberdeen defence wide unfastened with a piercing done shot for Cerny.

The Czech winger made nary mistake arsenic helium poked a first-time decorativeness past Dimitar Mitov for his 19th extremity of the season.

Goalkeeper Kelly’s organisation was mediocre and helium enactment Rangers nether pressure. Another slack walk led to him giving the shot distant and having to marque a treble prevention from Gueye and Keskinen.

Rangers stretched their pb connected the hr and, erstwhile again, Raskin was the architect. The Belgian midfielder drove to the bye-line and chopped the shot backmost for Dessers to person from adjacent range.

Igamane chipped the shot up for himself and rifled a dipping effort successful disconnected the station connected 70 minutes for the champion extremity of the game.

Cerny astir had a 2nd close connected full-time, but his changeable was deflected by Jefte and flew past Dimitar Mitov for 4-0.

Aberdeen were well-beaten by that point. Against a bang-average Rangers team, they ended up being thrashed.

Quite a sobering thought little than 2 weeks earlier they instrumentality to Glasgow to look Celtic astatine Hampden.