Incredible news; Rangers go top of Scottish Premiership for first time in two years

With a 3-0 victory over St Johnstone at McDiarmid Park, Rangers easily won the Premiership,

with captain James Tavernier scoring a late double.

After a 1-1 draw with Kilmarnock at home on Saturday,

Celtic, who had been leading the standings in goals scored,

allowed the Light Blues to move up to the top for the first time since February 2022.

Mohamed Diomande, an Ivorian midfielder,

scored his first goal for the Gers since joining during the winter transfer window in the 37th minute,

illuminating an otherwise uneventful first half.

Tavernier subsequently increased his season total to 19 goals after scoring penalties at 79 and 87 minutes,

respectively, both of which came after VAR intervention.

Philippe Clement’s team is two points ahead of their Old Firm opponents with twelve games to go.

They will ride the high from their nine consecutive victories into their match at Ibrox against third-place Hearts the following week.

As Rangers supporters arrived for the midday kickoff,

they were filled with excitement and noticed that Clement had made several changes,

mostly to the attacking lineup with the return of Borna Barisic,

Oscar Cortes, Scott Wright, Diomande, and Fabio Silva.

Connor Smith and Ryan McGowan were back,

and Dan Phillips had returned from injury for Craig Levein’s 10th-place team.

The game opened up when Saints striker Benjamin Kimpioka replaced David Keltjens,

who had been cautioned in the first half, and Gers winger Wright was replaced by Dujon Sterling,

who had returned from suspension.

Shortly after the restart, Mitov made a great stop to deny Silva’s close-range shot from a Diomande cross,

and then Todd Cantwell, who was soon replaced by Tom Lawrence, crossed the ball but Sterling just couldn’t get enough on it.

Football passing was always going to be tough on a subpar field,

and the game got off to a rough start with a lot of ball time in the air.

In the 3-1 victory over Ross County in midweek,

Rangers had 43 shots on goal, 23 of which were on target.

However, until Diomande scored to break the tie, they had not been able to test Saints goalkeeper Dimitar Mitov.

McGowan appeared to have nicked the ball away from Silva after another Rangers attack that appeared to have failed at the outskirts of the area.

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