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• Hibs are unbeaten in three league meetings with Rangers (W1 D2) - picking up as many points in those three games (5) as they had in their previous 22 against the Ibrox side in the Scottish Premiership prior (D5 L17).

• Rangers are unbeaten in 26 top-flight away games against Hibs (W16 D10) since a 2-1 defeat in September 2006. At only three sides have they ever enjoyed a longer away unbeaten streak in the top flight: Kilmarnock (30 from Dec 1994 to May 2011), Motherwell (31 from Oct 2003 to present), and Morton (41 from Feb 1920 to Nov 1987).

• Hibs remain unbeaten in 16 home league games (W10 D6) since going down 2-1 to St Mirren in November last season.

• Rangers have both scored (35 goals) and conceded (27) in their past 16 away league games (W6 D9 L1) – their longest such run since doing so 22 times in a row from January 1895 to September 1897.

• Nicolas Raskin has scored (two) or assisted (four) six of Rangers' last nine away league goals, while he both scored and assisted against Hibs at Easter Road in May.

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There's a lot on the line at Easter Road as Hibernian aim to go a full 12 months without a home defeat in the league, while every game is big right now for Rangers as they bid to claw back ground after a dismal start to the season.

Hibs have won two in a row after being hamstrung by careless draws and David Gray's side are unbeaten in their past three Premiership meetings with Rangers.

However, the Hibees faithful have not celebrated a top-flight success at home against Rangers since September 2006 and they did surrender rather meekly at Ibrox in the Premier Sports Cup last month.

In Sunday's 2-1 victory at Aberdeen, Hibs should have been out of sight before conceding in the dying embers.

The defence appears more solid now Grant Hanley has had a run of four successive starts and record signing Thibault Klidje is looking to score for the third game running but there is still a nagging feeling Gray should be getting more from an array of exciting attacking talent.

There were positive signs for new boss Rohl as Rangers finally delivered a first home league win of the campaign against Kilmarnock.

Rangers played with greater tempo and tenacity and there were potentially significant goals for Danilo and Youssef Chermiti, two players in grave need of a confidence boost.

Rohl would love to end a club record run of 24 competitive away games without a clean sheet but seems likely to place more emphasis on the other end of the pitch.

These two served up a 3-3 and a 2-2 in Edinburgh last term and another end-to-end thriller would not come as any surprise.

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Hibernian defender Warren O'Hora is doubtful with a shoulder issue while Dylan Levitt is out until after the international break after having his appendix removed.

Rudi Molotnikov (ankle), Joe Newell (groin) and Alasana Manneh (hamstring) are also still missing.

Rangers attacker Oliver Antman is available again after missing the Kilmarnock game with illness.

Long-term absentees Rabbi Matondo (knee), Dujon Sterling (Achilles) and Kieran Dowell remain out.

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Derek Cornelius insists there has been a "more positive dynamic" in the Rangers dressing room since new head coach Danny Rohl took charge.

Rangers beat Kilmarnock 3-1 on Sunday on Rohl's domestic debut - with Cornelius scoring his first goal for the club - and the Canada defender hopes to continue the momentum when they face Hibernian at Easter Road on Wednesday.

"It's been a more positive dynamic within the group which is always more enjoyable to be in," said the 27-year-old.

"The group also knows that it's just the start and we need to keep going in this way.

"The biggest change would have been the mentality, we're aggressive. We bring intensity to each match, each duel, that we run for each other and we help each other.

"The group is not happy with how we've started the season. The results haven't been good enough. The performances haven't been good enough.

"But we know that we can't change anything in the past and that we can only look ahead, and we're just hoping to continue to improve and get better and better.

"When you play for Rangers, the most important thing is to win.

"It's hard to say I've been enjoying it, when the team hasn't been performing how I know we can.

"It's a special club. It has a great fan base. It's a great group. The only thing missing now is that we have to perform better on the pitch.

"I have been told many times by many times different people that when Rangers is winning it is the best club to play at in the world.

"I want to experience that; I want to see Rangers when we are winning and when the fans are behind us when things are going well."

Kheredine Idessane
BBC Sport Scotland Senior Reporter

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Danny Rohl has been speaking to the media before his second domestic game in charge of Rangers, away to Hibs on Wednesday night.

Here are the key points from the Ibrox boss:

• On Brendan Rodgers' shock exit from rivals Celtic, Rohl says: "I know it is a big, big topic for everyone in Scottish football but my focus is on my team."

• He adds: "I think the pressure is always on for a manager. This is football. It's never nice when the manager gets sacked or something like this. We are all together as managers in this business, but as football, I think this is why we like this at one time and sometimes we don't like it."

• After being informed of remarks from new Celtic interim boss Martin O'Neill - who said in his TalkSport punditry role that Rangers were out of the title race - Rohl says: "This morning I sat here and looked to the faces of my players and I see there's a big, big belief now. I think they feel it on the pitch. I have the feeling they believe at the moment in what we are doing, in the last days."

• The German has a European defeat and Premiership win so far but is adamant he already sees momentum building: "Yeah, after a win, you always feel the positive energy, but we know we have to build on this momentum now. This comes through hard work. At the moment you need the next win and then you build on that and then you start to create more and more belief. But there's been a huge step in the atmosphere in the last two days."

• Rohl has spoken to Youssef Chermiti after the striker appeared to make a talking gesture with his hand in celebration of his first Rangers goal. The Ibrox boss adds: "I think you have to understand how you celebrate sometimes. I think he knows what to do the next time, a bit emotional, but not more. For me, it was more important that he scored."

• Rohl says it's all been a bit of a whirlwind so far and that he's seeing far more of us in the media at the moment than he is of his wife: "I've enjoyed the last couple of days. I saw in my group, in the staff members, everyone is smiling a little bit more at the moment and it would be good to keep the momentum now."

• He is wary of a Hibs side "with good weapons" as Rangers look to make it back-to-back league wins, adding: "They're playing forward, a lot of balls behind, they have speed in front and this is also the next challenge."

Jamie Currie
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It's been a long time coming. Following on from the pathetic display in Norway, a routine 3-1 victory over Kilmarnock was most welcome as Rangers ended the wait for a league victory at Ibrox and Danny Rohl got the first win of his tenure.

Interestingly, we opted for a back three, and that was beneficial for us in controlling the game from the start.

Danilo came back in and to be honest, he was our best-performing striker on the day and scored a typical headed goal to make it 2-1.

However, the inclusion of Mo Diomande was the one that helped the whole team tick. He, Nick Raskin and Thelo Aasgaard played as the midfield three and, especially in the second half, Diomande was the one breaking the lines and trying to make things happen from that area.

However, the one low point of the day was the manner we conceded. Jack Butland has been excellent all season, but he had a head loss moment coming for a cross he was miles away from. In the second half though, his save from Bruce Anderson was worth a goal in itself.

It was a positive start for Rohl in domestic football. However, he and these players need to back up Saturday's win with three points against a Hibs team who will fancy themselves against this Rangers side.

Will Rangers stand up and come away with what is required? Who knows. You cannot trust them yet.

Two wins in nine league matches is pathetic; they have to make sure they buck up their ideas before the next international break.

It's very much game-by-game stage with this side; we will see what we get from them at Easter Road and take it from there.

I would persist with the back three and build around that because it's going to be a dig in and get a result type night - something this team are yet to prove they can do.

Steven Davis and Neil McCann are in a two-way fight to become Danny Rohl's right-hand man in Rangers' dugout as the new head coach looks to add a former Ibrox player to work alongside fellow Germans Sascha Lense and Matthias Kaltenbach. (Daily Record), external

Former Rangers manager Michael Beale has pinpointed Ross Wilson's departure for Nottingham Forest as a key moment when it "became difficult" at Rangers because he struggled with working without a sporting director. (Coaches Voice), external

Rangers striker Danilo has admitted he found being bombed from the squad under former head coach Russell Martin "difficult and hurtful". (The Herald), external

Tottenham Hotspur have been worried about Mikey Moore's loan spell with Rangers because of his lack of game time, but the 18-year-old forward has been praised by fans for his two substitute appearances under new head coach Danny Rohl. (The Boot Room), external

Former Rangers striker Kemar Roofe, who was released by Derby County this summer, has hinted at signing for League Two leaders Walsall having set up his own youth academy in the Midlands. (Scottish Sun), external

Read Tuesday's Scottish Gossip in full.

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Former Rangers winger Neil McCann has admitted he might have become part of Kevin Muscat's backroom team but stressed that it never became "solid or real" while the Australian was being considered as the club's new head coach.

Reports had suggested that McCann could even take interim charge until Muscat was free of his commitments with China Super League leaders and reigning champions Shanghai Port.

But former Sheffield Wednesday manager Danny Rohl was appointed instead and, when asked about his own possible interim role, McCann told BBC Scotland's Scottish Football Podcast it was "all speculation".

"No-one from the club spoke to me about that," he said.

"Kevin is an ex-teammate of mine, yeah, we'll have discussions that if he was ever going to maybe look at coming to Rangers then he asked me if I would have been part of that set up.

"So I think everybody put two and two together, but there was never a stage where I was contacted by the club to say, 'Right, get your suit looked out again from last season, you're going back in'."

Along with Billy Dodds, McCann was assistant to Barry Ferguson as the trio of former Rangers players ended last season in interim charge after the sacking of Philippe Clement - and he would have welcomed a return.

"Of course that would have been brilliant, because I absolutely loved my time at Rangers last year," McCann added.

"It was great to be part of that club again, to be able to be back coaching.

"It was great because I loved being at the side of the pitch, but it never got to the stage where it was absolutely solid or real, so you can never get carried away by it."

New head coach Rohl started his Rangers reign with a meek Europa League defeat at Brann on Thursday, but his team responded with an encouraging Scottish Premiership win over Kilmarnock on Sunday.

On the German coach's introduction as Ibrox boss, McCann added: "He has got to find a formation that's going to suit that group of players. He's going to have to assess pretty quickly.

"He's going away to Brann, straight into a tough game. Back at Ibrox against Kilmarnock, then he's bouncing back into Wednesday night against that really fierce, quick, aggressive Hibs side.

"And then it's the semi-final against Celtic and Roma in Europe. I mean, they just keep coming. So he's going to have to really think on his feet and he's going to need a lot of support around him."

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Danilo admits he found it "hurtful and difficult" to be left out of the Rangers squad under previous head coach Russell Martin.

The Brazilian forward was initially started by Martin but wasn't named in his final two Premiership squads after being an unused substitute in the two prior.

On his return to the starting line-up against Kilmarnock - his first since the chastening 6-0 defeat to Club Brugge - the 26-year-old scored in new boss Danny Rohl's first league game.

"Obviously when a new manager comes, you always want to help and want to be playing," the Ibrox frontman said.

"With the previous manager, he started playing me and then not being part of it, it's hurtful and it's difficult because you're there to help.

"But this is the past, Danny took the role and it's been good. He's talking and he wants to improve everyone.

"Obviously it starts from zero and that's the moment for you to show yourself again and show you're ready to play and help him."

He ended a league drought which stretched back to the New Year derby against Celtic, something which, understandably, has "lifted" him.

"Nobody sees the hard work you do behind the scenes and I was waiting for this opportunity for a long time," he added.

"I was counting the days when I was not in the squad. I've just put in the hard work and made my mentality strong as well for whenever it would happen, that I would be ready.

"It showed on Sunday that my head is clear and obviously with the goal, it makes me even more happy."

We asked for your views on Rangers' 3-1 win against Kilmarnock.

Here's what some of you said:

Graeme: Good first step. Finally a manager/coach that prepares for the opposition and gives the team a proper chance. Hopefully we'll get to see why these signings were made and recruitment can be properly judged.

Colin: Much better from Rangers. There was a freedom in the play that had been lacking under Russell Martin. It was nice to see a manager willing to change the plan to suit the opposition. Rangers used to play with two central forwards and really go at teams, in recent years that changed to two defensive midfielders. It's time to get back to going after teams. Dare I say a team of Rangers' size has shown too much respect to teams of late, which has removed much of the fear of playing against us that used to be there.

Grant: There was less rigidity in Rangers' approach with than previous matches under Martin. Rohl looks more flexible in his approach. You gave to adapt to get what's in front of you in any given game. I like that.

Bill: One swallow doesn't make a summer. This shows someone can relate to players, can get a bit extra out of them. Although he has had little time with them, he set up the team and played them in their positions. A work in progress but I'm not going to get carried away. Hopefully he can weed out the dross.

Steve: What I immediately like about Rohl is that he is not afraid to make changes early. How many managers have we had that would wait too long before changing things up or worse, making changes when it's panic stations. The team were playing reasonably well but he decided changes were needed to push for the win and it worked out very well. Long may that continue.

Gazza: Not getting too carried away but it looked much better on the eye. Structure better, second-ball winning better and goals to boot. Tough one on Wednesday at Hibs but I hope this showed we will be in better shape for Easter Road.

Danny Rohl's first domestic game in charge ended with Rangers' first home league win of the season, with Youssef Chermiti's goal completing an ultimately comfortable win over Kilmarnock.

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Rangers head coach Danny Rohl: "Very important to get the three points. We know the table, we need wins.

"It's a good starting point to turn things around, it was a good step forward. It's still a long journey but I'm happy today for the club, the staff and the players.

"I enjoyed to see my team today. Not everything was perfect but I saw a lot of good things. The players said after the game it was a good step forward so with this we can build something.

"I was really happy with our counter-pressing. We were very aggressive. Even if it was not allowed, the fourth goal was a good example of that. This is how we should play.

"Today I saw a lot of good things and it's great when players start to score and we create chances because then they go home with self confidence. If you have that, and belief, and we are strong on the pitch we feel we can control the game.

"When you take over and you see the schedule, the pressure is on. Every result is important."

On Youssef Chermiti, who scored his first Rangers goal, Rohl added: "I think he is also demanding on himself. We will improve him step by step. He has something special.

"Still things to improve, especially with the pressing, but I think he should enjoy the goal today and tomorrow we can work on the next parts of his game.

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Connor Barron admitted that Rangers "owe everyone" a performance after another poor showing, this time against Brann in the Europa League.

There was no 'new manager-bounce' in Danny Rohl's first game in charge, as Rangers succumbed to a 3-0 loss in Norway.

The Ibrox side now have just five wins in 19 matches this season and already sit eight points behind Celtic in the league.

"We owe everyone," Barron said. "The start to the season has not been good enough for this football club and we owe everyone, fans at the club, the manager and ourselves as well.

"He [Rohl] just said that it was not good enough, and we'll go over things, and we've got a big game to look forward to. Obviously, we'll all look at ourselves and we'll flip our heads on to the weekend."

Rohl's first league game comes against Kilmarnock on Sunday, and it also doubles up as a home debut as Rangers head back to Ibrox.

In their ninth league game, Rohl's side are looking for just their second Premiership win this season.

"First impressions are massive and you've got to do everything, every training session, every game. And that's down to individuals, it's down to us as individuals then creating that as a team.

"The performances need to be better all across the board."

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Rangers have Nedim Bajrami available after he was ineligible to face Brann while fellow midfielder Mohamed Diomande was again missing in Norway.

Long-term absentees Rabbi Matondo (knee), Dujon Sterling (Achilles) and Kieran Dowell remain out.

Kilmarnock include new striker Tyreece John-Jules, who was brought in after Djenairo Daniels underwent knee surgery.

Marley Watkins is working his way back from a heel injury while Jamie Brandon and Matty Kennedy remain out. Tom Lowery is back training.

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• Rangers have won each of their past eight home league games against Kilmarnock by an aggregate score of 22-3 since a 1-1 draw in March 2019.

• Kilmarnock have only won two of their past 13 league meetings with Rangers, losing the other 11, with both wins coming at home via 1-0 scoreline (Aug 2023, Oct 2024).

• Along with Falkirk, Rangers are one of just two sides yet to win a home game in the Scottish Premiership this season (P4 D3 L1). The Ibrox team haven't gone five home league matches without a win since August 1988 under Graeme Souness and last did so within a single season in May 1960 under Scot Symon (8 games).

• Kilmarnock have lost just one of their past five away league games, winning two of them (D2) – as many as their previous 18 on the road in the Scottish Premiership beforehand (W2 D4 L12). Killie haven't enjoyed back-to-back away wins in the competition since October 2020.

• This will be Danny Rohl's first league game in charge of Rangers; including caretakers, none of the past 10 managers to take charge of the club in the top flight lost their first game (W7 D3) since Graeme Murty went down 2-1 to Dundee as caretaker in February 2017. The last permanent Rangers boss to lose his first top-flight game with the club was Dick Advocaat in August 1998 (2-1 v Hearts).

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Another Thursday, another European defeat for Rangers.

The 3-0 loss to Brann in Norway was the Ibrox side's third out of three in the Europa League and gave much for new head coach Danny Rohl to ponder.

The German, 36, was absolved of responsibility as Rangers' defensive frailties and attacking bluntness were again laid bare. Indeed, the atmosphere among supporters in Bergen turned more positive when Rohl went over to greet them after the players had endured a volley of verbal abuse.

Within hours, videos of fans confronting sporting director Kevin Thelwell and chief executive Patrick Stewart in the departure lounge of the airport surfaced. All is not well just months into the project Stewart and Thelwell have taken on.

Both men faced the media along with Rohl and chairman Andrew Cavenagh on Tuesday and answered directly questions put to them from supporters about opposition and recruitment.

But it was clear on and off the pitch against Brann that it is in the recruitment space where Rangers are failing, especially in defence.

Summer loan recruits Nasser Djiga and Jayden Meghoma, 22 and 19 respectively, struggled badly on the left side of defence. Afterwards, "raging" captain James Tavernier bemoaned the "disgraceful" performance.

Former Rangers defender Alan Hutton told TNT Sports: "It was painful at times to watch, to have one shot on target against the lowest-seeded team in the competition is really poor. Defensively, same old, we've seen it all season.

"The recruitment is the big issue for me. It was crying out at the start of the season to get experience, to get leaders within that dressing room.

"They didn't, they went down a different avenue, it didn't work out and look where they are right now."

Youssef Chermiti, who joined from Thelwell's former club Everton in a £8m deal, started in attack and was wasteful with his one big chance, a glaring headed opportunity in front of goal.

"Toothless all night, Rangers in attack," said former Rangers forward Steven Thompson. "They've managed to create very little of note."

The question for Rohl is, to whom does he turn? Experienced Canada international Derek Cornelius appeared from the bench on Thursday while fellow defender Dujon Sterling is still some way off a return from injury.

Centre-back Emmanuel Fernandez joined in the summer and was an unused substitute in Bergen after only two appearances all season.

In attack, former Aberdeen striker Bojan Miovski has managed just two goals since returning to Scottish football and has been starved of service.

Out wide, Djeidi Gassama has been an occasional bright spark, but Oliver Antman and Mikey Moore are yet to make much impact.

Short of free agents or untested youth players, Rohl's hands are tied until January.

Rangers legend Ally McCoist told TNT Sports: "Can Rohl improve them? He probably can. Can he take that squad of players to a level that Rangers should be at? Absolutely no chance.

"The recruitment's been horrendous, absolutely horrendous. It's agony for me to say, but they look like wee boys sometimes in the majority of games I've seen.

"It's a heavy jersey, and it's a really heavy jersey when things aren't going well."

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Connor Barron is adamant Rangers don't lack the desire and fight to transform their fortunes, but admits talk is cheap

After the Danny Rohl era began with a listless 3-0 Europa League loss at Brann, the midfielder told BBC Scotland: "Yeah, it really hurts. The performances just aren't shown on the pitch and that's down to us.

"We need to correct it. It's for all of us, all of our standards, all the basics we need to do every single day and that's down to us as players on the pitch to go and show that when the game's coming around. We haven't so far."

Barron, who came on as a 64th-minute substitute, in Norway, added: "I believe we've got enough in the dressing room. It's just down to us to flick that switch and we need to do it.

"We need to do it soon. We don't have time on our hands. The next game comes around quick so our focus goes on to that now.

"It's down to you individually having a look at your own things you can do. You can do better in reflecting on the game as a team and working on things as a team. That's how I look at it.

"There's no point speaking about it. It needs to be shown on the pitch and that's down to us to do it."

Barron admits new head coach Rohl didn't sugarcoat the loss, and says there could be concerns within the squad over how the German views the players he's inherited.

"He just said that we all know it's not good enough," added the Scotland international.

"First impressions are massive and you've got to do everything you can in every training session, every game and that's down to individuals.

"The performances need to be better all across the board. The start of the season has not been good enough for this football club. We owe everyone, the fans, the club, the manager and ourselves as well."

Former Rangers striker and assistant coach Billy Dodds on Sportsound

The team's not doing the basics, they never got close to it. They created two chances in the full game, and they both fell to the young lads, Youssef Chermiti and Mikey Moore, who hit it over the crossbar.

That was it for Rangers. They were overrun in the middle of the park. It's worrying because when we were in there, there were problems that had to be sorted, but we still managed to get performances out of them in big games, and there was a lot of good stuff as well.

That good stuff could have been tweaked and added to. Now Rangers have had a net spend of £20m - but they look worse.

It seems to have been added to with more loan players, more young players, more project players. Rangers are not a project club.

Former Scotland striker James McFadden on Sportsound

His post-match interview is the most animated we've seen James Tavernier and it's the strongest he's been when speaking about the team.

He was talking about himself and the team being weak and not strong enough and not being aggressive and not picking up second balls.

The worrying thing, and we've all been able to see it all season, Rangers are too easy to play against. That is a terrible, terrible thing to say about any team, never mind Rangers who want to be up competing.

It is a hurtful time but this is where Rangers are at the minute.

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We asked for your views after Danny Rohl's tenure began with a 3-0 defeat at Brann that leaves Rangers bottom of the Europa League.

Here's what some of you said:

Raymond: The problem with Rangers is a one word answer: recruitment. The solution: a buyout, and replace the existing board and new employees with people who love Rangers.

Iain: A shambolic performance once again. Too many players nowhere near good enough. The recruitment has been so poor which was highlighted once again. Rohl has a massive job on his hands.

Fraser: Rohl found out that he is starring in Mission Impossible. Where do I start to try and make sense of this gutless performance? Nassar Djiga ball watching again, Joe Rothwell does nothing and Youssef Chermiti is nothing more than an empty shirt. Everton probably couldn't believe their luck getting £8m for him. So Danny I wish you well, but you've got a tough job ahead of you.

Steven: We're not going to judge Rohl on this game but what is frustrating being a supporter, currently, is that in the not so long distant past, we would have comfortably beaten this team and were racking up unwanted stats and records in the process. The defence simply isn't good enough. This team lacks everything required to be successful. But we can't keep changing managers and reinventing the squad. Rohl now needs to be given time.

Jim: A total and utter embarrassment!

Andy: Rangers should go and get Cyriel Dessers back in January - the signings Kevin Thelwell made are the root of all the club's problems, sack him as soon as possible please.

Scott: Dessers, Hamza Igamane and Vaclav Cerny were responsible for 63 goals last season. Their replacements look nowhere near good enough, this is in Thelwell. What looked like incompetence, now looks like sabotage.

Calum: We have to stop buying poor players from the English Premier League. Develop our own players. We must stand firm with Rohl and give him a chance . Get rid of the deadwood which won't be easy. The fanbase need to change their expectations, they think they run the club. Stop listening to McCoist, Boyd and pundits who have all the answers - not one of them has ever been a good coach or manager.