Summary

  • Listen to Sportsound from Hampden

  • Tavernier lashes in from spot after Danilo downed by Clark

  • Substitute Wright adds quickfire second before lovely Tavernier free-kick

  • Butland denies Kent & Kingsley with fine saves before Shankland nets penalty, awarded after VAR review which also overturned Kingsley red

  • Rangers face Aberdeen in final on 17 December

  1. Hearts heading outpublished at 16:51 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2023

    Heart of Midlothian 0-3 Rangers

    Toby SibbickImage source, SNS
    Lawrence ShanklandImage source, SNS
  2. YELLOW CARD Devlin (Hearts)published at 87mins

    Heart of Midlothian 1-3 Rangers

    Cammy Devlin is a bit unfortunate to earn a booking for a typically strong challenge on John Ludstram.

    It's even worse for fellow substitute Calem Nieuwenhof, who is hauled off and replaced with young midfielder Aidan Denholm.

  3. Postpublished at 85mins

    Heart of Midlothian 1-3 Rangers

    Rangers haven't been knocked out their stride by that goal.

    Tom Lawrence fires a powerful drive that Zander Clark can only parry and Cyriel Dessers knocks it over the crossbar on the rebound.

    The pressure continues and the Hearts goalkeeper has to save one-handed at the near post to deny Borna Barisic.

  4. Time running outpublished at 16:43 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2023

    Heart of Midlothian 1-3 Rangers

    Craig Levein
    Former Hearts manager on BBC Sportsound

    Hearts need to score in the next two or three minutes to have any chance of pulling the game back level.

  5. goal

    GOAL Heart of Midlothian 1-3 Rangerspublished at 80mins

    Lawrence Shankland

    No doubt!

    Hearts' captain does what his Rangers counterpart did earlier and slots home clinically from the penalty spot.

    Lawrence Shankland's second goal within seven days against Rangers gives his side a lifeline.

    Hearts goalImage source, BBC Sport
  6. PENALTY TO HEARTSpublished at 79mins

  7. RED CARD WITHDRAWNpublished at 16:41 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2023

  8. RED CARD Kingsley (Hearts)published at 16:40 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2023

    Heart of Midlothian 0-3 Rangers

    Referee Nick Walsh shows Stephen Kingsley a second yellow card after Ben Davies' first contribution is to challenge the Hearts left-back.

    Kingsley is adamant that he was clipped and there's a VAR check...

  9. Triple Rangers changepublished at 77mins

    Heart of Midlothian 0-3 Rangers

    Rangers fans will be pleased to see Tom Lawrence make an appearance after long-term injury, with Ben Davis and Cyriel Dessers also withdrawn.

    Sam Lammers, Leon Balogun and Danilo are off.

  10. Postpublished at 76mins

    Heart of Midlothian 0-3 Rangers

    So close to a fourth for Rangers - and second for Scott Wright.

    Abdallah Sima fires a low cross that the winger stabs just wide from eight yards.

  11. Swaggering Rangerspublished at 16:36 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2023

    Heart of Midlothian 0-3 Rangers

    Even more Hearts fans started to leave after that third Rangers goal.

    They thought they could get back in this one with the Frankie Kent and Stephen Kingsley chances, but it's a mountain to climb now.

    Rangers are spraying the ball around with a swagger that a 3-0 lead brings, echoing Wednesday's 5-0 win at Dundee.

  12. Tall order for Hearts subspublished at 16:35 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2023

    Heart of Midlothian 0-3 Rangers

    Craig Levein
    Former Hearts manager on BBC Sportsound

    We all agreed that at half-time that Steven Naismith would be the happier of the two managers. Not anymore.

    Maybe Boyce can nick a goal back. It's a huge ask for Hearts to get anything, but you just have to keep going.

  13. Shhhhaaaaa-wingggggpublished at 16:34 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2023

    Heart of Midlothian 0-3 Rangers

    Rangers captain James Tavernier pulls out the trademark golfswing celebrationImage source, SNS
    Image caption,

    Rangers captain James Tavernier pulled out the trademark golfswing celebration for the second of his two goals at Hampden

  14. Boyce and Devlin onpublished at 72mins

    Heart of Midlothian 0-3 Rangesr

    Two more changes for Hearts.

    Liam Boyce and Cammy Devlin are on for Kenneth Vargas and Beni Baningime.

  15. Changes come too latepublished at 69mins

    Heart of Midlothian 0-3 Rangers

    That third goal came just after Steven Naismith made two attacking changes.

    Yutaro Oda and Alan Forrest were sent of for Jorge Grant and Toby Sibbick.

    Those have turned out to be too little too late.

  16. 'Cheerio, cheerio' rings out at Hampdenpublished at 16:27 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2023

    Heart of Midlothian 0-3 Rangers

    Kheredine Idessane
    BBC Sport Scotland at Hampden

    Hearts fans start heading for the exits and a fairly miserable trip back along the M8.

    That third goal means this game is effectively over and it's Rangers who'll face Aberdeen in next month's final.

    To think that this game was tightly poised at half-time. Three goals in 13 devastating minutes from Rangers have simply blown Hearts away.

  17. Double bluff from Tavernierpublished at 16:27 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2023

    Heart of Midlothian 0-3 Rangers

    Craig Levein
    Former Hearts manager on BBC Sportsound

    I think Zander Clark couldn't see the ball. That was part of the problem.

    Even if he had seen it, I don't think he'd have seen it. That was an unbelievable free-kick.

    He's double-bluffed him.

  18. Special talentpublished at 16:26 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2023

    Heart of Midlothian 0-3 Rangers

    Neil McCann
    Former Hearts and Rangers winger on BBC Sportsound

    Tavernier is a very special talent.

    He just hits it so accurately with so much power and dip that it goes right into the top corner.

  19. goal

    GOAL Heart of Midlothian 0-3 Rangerspublished at 16:24 Greenwich Mean Time 5 November 2023

    James Tavernier

    Captain marvellous again!

    Told you it was a dangerous position.

    James Tavernier shows his special talent at dead balls as the right-back curls a brilliant free-kick into the top far corner.

    Rangers are surely heading to the final now.

    Rangers goalImage source, BBC Sport
  20. YELLOW CARD Rowles (Hearts)published at 61mins

    Heart of Midlothian 0-2 Rangers

    Hearts are under pressure again and Kye Rowles hauls back Sam Lammers as the Rangers striker is poised to shoot on the edge of the penalty box.

    Booking for the Hearts centre-half and it's a dangerous position.