Dundee 3 - 4 Rangers - FletchAnswers

Cyriel Dessers’ dramatic stoppage-time strike gave Rangers a last-gasp 4-3 win
over Dundee in an enthralling Premiership encounter at Dens Park.

Darkish Blues striker Simon Murray scored after solely two minutes and captain Joe Shaughnessy added a second within the nineteenth minute in opposition to the disjointed guests.

Interim boss Barry Ferguson’s aspect have been handed a lifeline when Shaughnessy scored an personal aim simply earlier than the break, with Dessers, making his one centesimal aggressive look for Rangers, having missed a sequence of possibilities.

Ahead Scott Tiffoney made it 3-1 within the 62nd minute and all of the factors appeared to be staying at house however Rangers skipper James Tavernier diminished the deficit within the 76th minute earlier than substitute Tom Lawrence dramatically levelled 5 minutes later with one other effective strike.

And within the third minute of stoppage time, Dessers demonstrated his never-say-die angle when he nipped in to attain the winner and full a exceptional recreation.

Rangers, with attacker Hamza Igamane in for the injured Vaclav Cerny, had been shocked when the house aspect raced into an early lead.

Finlay Robertson, who took over from injured midfielder Lyall Cameron who’s Ibrox-bound in the summertime, curled in a nook in from the correct and Murray obtained in entrance of Tavernier and volleyed previous Rangers goalkeeper Jack Butland.

Ferguson’s aspect seemed bereft, with any entry into their penalty space a possible drawback, however within the sixteenth minute Dessers was despatched clear by a Mohamed Diomande header just for his low drive to be blocked by the legs of keeper Trevor Carson and the house aspect defended the nook.

Extra calamitous defending by Rangers which started with Igamane failing to clear his strains following a set-piece ended with Butland fumbling a header from Shaughnessy, then saving from Murray who was additionally unmarked, earlier than the Irishman knocked the unfastened ball in on the second try. A VAR verify for offside confirmed the aim.

Robertson then blasted a shot previous Butland however referee David Dickinson had already blown for a foul by Josh Mulligan on Yilmaz, to the aid of the beleaguered Rangers gamers and supporters.

The Ibrox aspect finally perked up.

Carson saved from Igamane’s long-range drive then made a greater save from Dessers’ header from the next nook however Rangers obtained a break within the forty third minute when Shaughnessy sliced Tavernier’s cross from deep on the correct excessive into his personal web from 12 yards.

Carson saved twice extra from Dessers because the Mild Blues completed the half strongly though Ferguson made interval modifications, with Ianis Hagi and Bailey Rice changing Connor Barron and Leon Balogun making certain a return to a again 4.

The sport sped from finish to finish.

Tiffoney one way or the other missed from a few yards from a Mulligan cross minutes later earlier than Dessers finally had the ball within the Dundee web after rounding Carson just for VAR to rule offside.

Dessers headed Tavernier’s cross over from shut vary however Dundee’s Oluwaseun Adewumi additionally missed a few possibilities, lacking the goal from a Murray cutback then lobbing excessive over the bar when via in opposition to Butland.

Nonetheless, the Taysiders restored their lead when Tiffoney sped into the Rangers field previous substitute Jefte – on for Yilmaz – and fired previous Butland, due to this fact making amends for his earlier horror miss.

Tavernier’s great drive from the sting of the field which beat Carson and when Lawrence, on for Diomande, rifled low previous Carson from 25 yards it was all sq. – however extra drama was imminent.

Murray smashed a shot in opposition to Butland’s put up in stoppage time earlier than Dessers took benefit of hesitancy within the Dundee defence on the different finish to ship the Rangers followers into raptures – and there was nonetheless time for Carson to make two extra saves from the striker.

Dessers: It was a rollercoaster recreation

Rangers aim hero Cyriel Dessers to Sky Sports activities:

“I am nonetheless looking for out what simply occurred!

“From the primary minute till the 92nd minute it was a rollercoaster, and it was a whole lot of ache for 91 minutes, however then, yeah, to win this feels good.

“This staff, the mentality of not giving up, exhibits once more – sadly we’ve to point out it an excessive amount of – how good we’re at coming again.

“It will be lots simpler if we give the primary punch and so they have to return.”

Ferguson: We by no means gave in

Rangers interim boss Barry Ferguson to Sky Sports activities:

“My ideas are I am actually proud of the three factors, however general I’ve seen so many elderly habits creep in.

“I simply had a phrase with them about it and I am not going to permit that to occur.

“It is one thing we have to work on. We have got a full week now and that is one thing that me, my workers and the gamers will undergo.

“There have been levels within the recreation that I used to be a bit baffled at occasions, however one factor I’ll say about them was that they confirmed character once more. They by no means gave in.”