The primary actual effort of the sport got here from Timo Werner however he was off course with a curling shot whereas it was Rangers with the primary shot on the right track, Nedim Bajrami’s drive forcing Forster to tip over the bar on 10 minutes. There was numerous attacking impetus from each side, an actual open really feel to the competition which led to probabilities at each ends. Rangers midfielder Jefte was caught in possession and we broke rapidly however the Brazilian obtained again to forestall Brennan Johnson getting onto the tip of Heung-Min Son’s cross, whereas Vaclav Cerny’s volley wanted smothering by Forster earlier than Jefte’s harmful cross in some way evaded Bajrami within the six-yard field.
The sport was being performed at both finish of the pitch with midfield play nearly non-existent and there have been half probabilities with nearly each assault, nonetheless there simply wasn’t sufficient craft and guile within the remaining thirds to style a aim though Forster needed to make a save low down together with his legs to disclaim Cerny on the stroke of half-time.
Whereas there have been no objectives within the first half, it took simply two minutes of the second interval for the impasse to be damaged, the house aspect taking the lead when Moroccan Igamane produced a neat side-foot volley from James Tavernier’s cross to beat Forster. That lifted the roof off Ibrox and we needed to negotiate a tough spell however might have drawn stage within the 54th minute, half-time substitute Kulusevski sliding a ball throughout the field to Johnson however he fired over the bar. James Maddison then hit a 20-yard free-kick over the bar and Pedro Porro introduced a save out of Jack Butland from a decent angle as we pushed for the equaliser.
When it did include quarter-hour left, it was a magnificence. We stored the ball effectively on the again and in midfield, working it round till the area appeared for Kulusevski to string a cross in behind for Dominic Solanke, he lower the ball again to the sting of the world the place Kulusevski had moved into and he offered a medical end previous Butland.
An excellent block from Tavernier prevented Solanke’s volley from testing Butland within the 83rd minute, earlier than Forster made the save of the night time to thwart Dessers, who did so effectively to beat two defenders to create an opportunity from 12 yards out.