Rangers 2-1 Hamilton Academical: result and report
Premiership · Saturday 29 August 2009
Result
Rangers 2-1 Hamilton Academical
Premiership · Saturday 29 August 2009, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Rangers 2-1 Hamilton Academical: match report
Rangers beat Hamilton Academical 2-1 in the Premiership on Saturday 29 August 2009. The half-time score was 2-0.
Steven Whittaker opened the scoring in the 19th minute. Rangers's goals came from Steven Whittaker (19'), Kris Boyd (27'), Kris Boyd (65') and Steven Whittaker (67'). Hamilton Academical scored through Mark McLaughlin (87').
Discipline: Rangers received no yellow cards; Hamilton Academical received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Rangers were 3rd on 6 points from 2 and Hamilton Academical 12th on 0 points from 2. Rangers went on to finish that season 2nd with 75 points, and Hamilton Academical 9th with 39.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Rangers wins, 0 draws and 0 for Hamilton Academical.
Key events
- 19'Goal · Steven Whittaker
- 27'Goal · Kris Boyd
- 65'Goal · Kris Boyd
- 67'Goal · Steven Whittaker
- 87'Goal · Mark McLaughlin
- 90'Yellow card · Leon Knight
Head-to-head
Team news
Rangers expected line-up
Ronald Waterreus, Allan McGregor, Alan Hutton, Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Sasa Papac, Hamed Namouchi, Peter Rosenkrands Løvenkrands, Barry Ferguson, Brahim Hemdani, C. Burke, David Weir
Hamilton Academical expected line-up
Tomas Cerny, Izzy Iriekpen, Simon Mensing, Manuel Rubiales, James Wesolowski, John Kissock, Marco Paixão, Grant Evans, Flávio Paixão, Martin Canning