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Rangers 2-0 Kilmarnock | Scottish Premier League match report
guardian.co.uk Sep 27 2011 15:49
For 45 minutes, this was distinctly sticky for Rangers. Their recovery, most pertinently including two goals in as many minutes, increased an SPL advantage over Celtic and rendered Kilmarnock's promise of the opening exchanges worthless. It is hardly a leap of faith to infer that Ally McCoist used the half-time break to press home the importance of victory to his players.Rangers entered this match knowing victory, and another one when Hibernian come here on Saturday, would leave them 10 points clear of Celtic before Neil Lennon's team kick-off at Hearts on Sunday. Notwithstanding games in hand, such gaps can determine momentum. Yet it was Kilmarnock who played with the early impetus. Paul Heffernan should have sent the visitors in front after nine minutes, the striker failing to