It’ll be Rangers’ biggest win over Hearts of all time – but they need to do it first | OneFootball

Rangers currently sit third in the table just 3 points behind a floundering Celtic, but it’s the gap to Hearts Rangers seek to cut.

And that begins this weekend as Rangers take a daunting trip to Tynecastle to face the strongest Hearts since the Burley era under Romanov, before the mad Lithuanian inexplicably fired the Scot, and the club went into freefall.

McInnes

Now they have Derek McInnes under Brighton magnate Tony Bloom and it’s safe to say this Hearts is serious.

They have a 9-point gap over Rangers in third, having scored 11 goals more. They have conceded the same number at the back 13.

And there’s no doubt that while Celtic remain overall favourites to win the league, the catastrophe at Parkhead under Nancy has shifted the paradigm hugely.

But Rangers are the ones going to Edinburgh this weekend, so what does winning there mean?

History

It would be, simply put, the most significant Rangers win over Hearts probably in history.

Hearts had a bit of a bump recently but they’re back on track including 3 points v Celtic. Hearts have well and truly proven their title credentials.

They are the team to beat in the Scottish Premiership, which is an astonishing statement in this league.

Rangers going there and getting the win would be the biggest statement in this fixture there’s ever been.

Danny Rohl is on a bit of a roll. He’s got 6 wins of 8 in the league, and the dropped points were against two top 6 teams – Utd (who beat Celtic), and Falkirk. He also secured 6 points against another top 6 team, Hibs. While most of the wins have been ugly, that doesn’t matter, they’re still 3 points.

And getting another this weekend would be the biggest statement of intent Rohl has made.

Best XI

We’re not going to demand he ‘gets the team right’ – we’ve given up figuring out what our best XI even is.

But Rohl would win a LOT of faith if he can get the win this weekend because closing the gap to Hearts and eking his way into an unlikely title challenge would be an astonishing turnaround from the second-bottom we were suffering under Russell Martin.

It’s a big one. A huge one. It’s the first serious proper test league-wise of Rohl’s Rangers credentials.

Get the win at Tynecastle and it blows the title race wide open.