Summary

  • Rangers will host Celtic in the last 16

  • Defoe spanks in from 25 yards, Roofe adds quickfire double, then Patterson adds fourth

  • Cove's Masson off with serious-looking injury

Live Reporting

Clive Lindsay

  1. YELLOW CARD Bassey (Rangers)

    Rangers 3-0 Cove Rangers

    Cove win themselves their first corner as Fraser Fyvie plays a clever free-kick as Rangers left-back Calvin Bassey is booked.

    Mitch Megginson is in behind the home defence, but the striker's cross loops over and the visitors can't make anything of the corner.

  2. Small margins are the difference

    Rangers 3-0 Cove Rangers

    Charlie Adam
    Former Rangers midfielder on BBC Sportsound

    The small margins make such a difference when you're playing a better side. In the space of a few minutes, it's now going to be a long shift for Cove

  3. GOAL! Rangers 3-0 Cove Rangers

    Kemar Roofe

    Two goals in two minutes from Kemar Roofe and the striker finds the net for the 14th time this season.

    Scott Wright has impressed in his first Rangers start and it is the former Aberdeen forward who is the provider as the close-range finish is fired high into the back of the net.

    Goal - RangersBBC Sport

  4. Striker's instinct

    Rangers 2-0 Cove Rangers

    Charlie Adam
    Former Rangers midfielder on BBC Sportsound

    Roofe was in the right place at the right time. True poacher's instinct

  5. A soft one to concede?

    Rangers 2-0 Cove Rangers

    Richard Foster
    Partick Thistle defender on BBC Radio Scotland

    The goalie's got to do better. I think he could have caught it. There wasn't a lot of power on Arfield's strike

  6. GOAL! Rangers 2-0 Cove Rangers

    Kemar Roofe

    Rangers are cruising through to an Old Firm derby with Celtic.

    Goalkeeper Stuart McKenzie can only parry a Scott Arfield drive from close range and Kemar Roofe is on hand with a clinical finish.

    Goal - RangersBBC Sport

  7. 'Defoe is classy'

    Rangers 1-0 Cove Rangers

    Charlie Adam
    Former Rangers midfielder on BBC Sportsound

    Any young player in Scotland should be watching Defoe. His dedication, his quality at his age is exemplary

  8. Rangers 1-0 Cove Rangers

    So close to a quickfire second for Jermain Defoe.

    A good cut-back from Scott Wright sets up the veteran striker, but he fires wide from 10 yards under good pressure from Scott Ross.

  9. Thoroughly deserved lead

    Rangers 1-0 Cove Rangers

    Charlie Adam
    Former Rangers midfielder on BBC Sportsound

    You can't allow Defoe that kind of space. You can't drop off. What a strike that is

  10. 'Criminal' defending

    Rangers 1-0 Cove Rangers

    Richard Foster
    Partick Thistle defender on BBC Radio Scotland

    One of the centre-halves has to close him down. Defoe is so accurate, to give him that much space is criminal

  11. GOAL! Rangers 1-0 Cove Rangers

    Jermain Defoe

    It's all too easy for Rangers as they eventually make the breakthrough.

    Jermain Defoe drifts off the visiting defence to pick up a Glen Kamara flick and, as Fraser Fyvie slips, the striker takes full advantage of the space to shoot low into the far corner from 15 yards.

    That's the former England veteran's fifth of the season.

    Goal - RangersBBC Sport

  12. Happy Cove?

    Rangers 0 -0 Cove Rangers

    Charlie Adam
    Former Rangers midfielder on BBC Sportsound

    Twenty minutes gone and Cove will be delighted. They're comfortable in possession and clearly have a game plan

  13. Rangers 0-0 Cove Rangers

    Cove have hardly been in Rangers' half and have squandered their first free-kick opportunity.

    It seems like only a matter of time before the home side make the breakthrough, although for now they seem to be taking a breather after that pressure immediately after kick-off.

  14. Rangers 0-0 Cove Rangers

    Another sight at goal for Kemar Roofe, who seems determined to make the most of his starting place.

    However, the Wallsall-born striker's pot shot from the edge of the penalty box flies wide.

  15. Good management from Hartley

    Rangers 0 -0 Cove Rangers

    Charlie Adam
    Former Rangers midfielder on BBC Sportsound

    This is good management, good coaching from Paul Hartley. They are playing from the back despite the opposition and being brave

  16. HITS THE WOODWORK

    Rangers 0-0 Cove Rangers

    Cove are defending deeper and deeper inside their own penalty box and, from a corner, Kemar Roofe's effort on the turn strikes the inside of a post and into the welcoming arms of goalkeeper Stuart McKenzie.

  17. Rangers 0-0 Cove Rangers

    Rangers are continuing to knock on the door and the lively Scott Wright is played through by a clever Kemar Roofe back-heel and the forward's low cross just fails to connect with Jermain Defoe's toe in front of goal.

  18. Rangers 0-0 Cove Rangers

    Cove are looking comfortable on the ball as they look to play out of defence.

    However, Rangers are already finding a few holes in the visiting defence and Kemar Roofe fires wide first time as the striker pounces on a low cross from Nathan Patterson.

  19. Rangers going long

    Rangers 0-0 Cove Rangers

    Richard Foster
    Partick Thistle defender on BBC Radio Scotland

    Cove need to be careful not to hold too high a line. Rangers have tried to go in-behind twice with Scott Wright and Jermain Defoe. I think it's an avenue they will try to explore

  20. Rangers 0-0 Cove Rangers

    First chance falls to the Glasgow version of Rangers as Scott Wright latches on to a long ball out of defence.

    The former Aberdeen forward controls it well, but his shot strikes on-loan Dundee United defender Scott Graham and wide for the first corner of the game.