Eagles’ stars impressive as Rangers demolish Hearts

Super Eagles Rangers legion were up and running on Sunday as the Scottish side posted a dorminate performance in 5-0 demolition of Hearts at the Ibrox Stadium on Sunday. The trio of Joe Aribo, Calvin Bassey and Leon Balogun were all on duty to ensure that the visitors were sent to the cleaners.

It was however Alfredo Morelos just back in the starting XI after international duty that shot the Ibrox side into the lead after just 11 minutes, firing in from Ryan Kent’s cross.

The Colombia striker added a second after half-time as he curled a left-footed shot in from the edge of the box.

Glen Kamara made it 3-0 just minutes after coming on to the pitch, with Scott Arfield and Fashion Sakala also scoring a crazy ten minute spell.

The result sees Rangers cut the gap at the top of the Scottish Premiership back to one point after Celtic beat Motherwell earlier in the day.

Giovanni Van Bronckhorst’s side came in for heavy criticism following their midweek capitulation to Celtic and the Dutchman made four changes with Morelos, defender Leon Balogun and midfielder John Lundstram coming in along with playmaker Ryan Jack, who made his first start since February 2021.

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Hearts defender John Souttar, who has signed a pre-contract with Rangers which will see him switch to Ibrox in the summer, was not named among the substitutes as Aaron McEneff and Alex Cochrane replaced Ellis Simms and Andy Halliday.

McEneff made an early impact, blocking Joe Aribo’s first-minute header from a James Tavernier corner and, after Balogun had headed the second corner over the bar, he robbed Gers defender Calvin Bassey then drove just wide of the target at the other end.