Hearts 2-1 Rangers: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 29 November 2008

Result

Hearts 2-1 Rangers

Premiership · Saturday 29 November 2008, 12:30 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Hearts 2-1 Rangers: match report

Hearts defeated Rangers 2-1 in the Premiership on Saturday 29 November 2008. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Marius Zaliukas opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Hearts's goals came from Marius Zaliukas (20') and Laryea Kingston (23'). Rangers scored through an own goal by Christos Karipidis (26').

Discipline: Hearts received 1 yellow card and 1 red card; Rangers received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Hearts were 3rd on 26 points from 15 and Rangers 2nd on 36 points from 15. Hearts went on to finish that season 3rd with 59 points, and Rangers 1st with 86.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Hearts win, 2 draws and 7 for Rangers.

Going into the match Hearts's last five read W-W-W-W-L and Rangers's W-W-D-W-D.

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 20'Goal · Marius ZaliukasHearts · 1-0
  • 22'Yellow card · Madjid BougherraRangers
  • 23'Goal · Laryea KingstonHearts · 2-0
  • 26'Own goal · Christos KaripidisRangers · 2-1
  • 44'Yellow card · Kris BoydRangers
  • 44'Yellow card · Steven WhittakerRangers
  • 71'Yellow card · Lee WallaceHearts
  • 76'Second yellow · Lee WallaceHearts
  • 90'Yellow card · Kyle LaffertyRangers

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Hearts 1, draws 2, Rangers 7.

Team news

Rangers expected line-up (4-5-1)

Ronald Waterreus, Alan Hutton, Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Julien Rodriguez, Fernando Ricksen, Hamed Namouchi, Peter Rosenkrands Løvenkrands, Barry Ferguson, Brahim Hemdani, C. Burke, Ian Murray