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Jack’s back as Rangers put in five star performance. Ryan Jack made a scoring return to the Rangers first team today as the league leaders made another impressive statement on their title credentials with a 5-0 win over Ross County at Ibrox. The win takes Rangers 23 points clear with 13 games to play. Celtic still have three games in hand, but even the most optimistic of their supporters must now be approaching the point of accepting that the required winning run to claw back the difference is beyond Neil Lennon’s side. Steven Gerrard, taking charge of his 150th match as Rangers manager, named one change to the side which started last week at Fir Park with Filip Helander coming in for Leon Balogun. There was also a visible sign on the bench of the improving injury situation at Ibrox, where both Ryan Jack and Kemar Roofe were named. It is widely accepted that Rangers have not been the in the free-flowing, high-scoring form that they displayed earlier in the season, with Ross County the last side to taka a battering from Steven Gerrard’s side in the 4-0 defeat in Dingwall in December. Today would be an even more chastening experience for the Staggies and recently appointed boss John Hughes, who went into the game today on the back of an impressive 4-1 win over Aberdeen last weekend. However Rangers looked up from it from the start and scored after six minutes thanks to Ryan Kent. James Tavernier sent a cross into the box, Morelos nodded it back across the face of goal for Kent to loop his header over Ross Laidlaw to give Rangers the early lead they craved. A couple of minutes later James Tavernier hit a free-kick just over the bar, giving Rangers the look of a side which wanted to get their business done early. In the 12th minute it looked like Rangers would do exactly that when they were awarded a penalty after Morelos robbed Callum Morris to run in on goal, only to be fouled before he could get his shot away. James Tavernier stepped up, but his effort was saved by Laidlaw – Tavernier’s second successive miss from the spot. Rangers continued to dominate possession and it didn’t take too much longer for them to double their lead, thanks to Filip Helander after 27 minutes. Borna Barisic sent in another great corner, Helander lost his man and rose to bullet home from just outside the six yard box. Barisic was involved again shortly after when he hit a free-kick which Laidlaw needed two attempts to gather. Then came the moment of the match from Joe Aribo. The Nigerian cut inside the box, beat Charlie Lakin and Connor Randall before curling a fantastic strike into the top corner, leaving Laidlaw helpless and all but confirming the three points for Rangers. Ianis Hagi was having an impressive game and had a couple of opportunities towards the end of the first-half. Firstly he hit a shot from just outside the area which flew narrowly over the bar. Then he was played in by Ryan Kent, but took a touch too many which allowed Morris the time he needed to block the Romanian's effort. As the teams went up the tunnel for half-time you would have been forgiven for suggesting the second-half was an effort in futility, however Ross County provided a reminder that there was still plenty to play for when Harry Paton struck the post seconds after the restart. The near miss provoked a response from Rangers with Alfredo Morelos coming close after a great turn and shot, then Ryan Kent came close with another header. Ross County struck the woodwork again after a header from Alex Iacovitti looped over Allan McGregor and hit the bar. Morelos then had another effort from outside the box go just wide. Joe Aribo then came really close to adding another outrageous act to his superb first-half goal when he audaciously flicked on a Tavernier corner, forcing a save from Laidlaw. Steven Gerrard then made four substitutions, including Ryan Jack who came on with Bongani Zungu, Jermain Defoe and Cedric Itten, in place of Steven Davis, Glen Kamara, Joe Aribo and Alfredo Morelos. It didn't take Jack long to make an impact with a goal four minutes after being introduced to proceedings. Jack started the move, playing a ball to Cedric Itten who laid the ball out wide to Hagi. Hagi sent the ball across the face of goal for Jack to come in and hammer home the fourth. Jack came close to scoring again after Nathan Patterson, who had replaced James Tavernier, played a ball to him on the edge of the box. Jack’s right foot shot looked like it was goal-bound until Laidlaw got a hand to it to put it wide. The fifth came with ten minutes to go thanks to Connor Goldson. Barisic sent in yet another great corner for Goldson to send it past Laidlaw with a well-placed header, which dinked off the post on its way in. Steven Gerrard was delighted with performance saying: “There's no such thing as a perfect performance for a manager, you're always looking for little things to improve on. “But we asked the players for a 90 minute performance and they delivered that today. We looked dangerous from start to finish. “We played with real urgency. We did all the right things and in possession we played some lovely football.” RANGERS: McGregor, Tavernier, Goldson, Helander, Barisic, Kamara, Davis, Aribo. Kent, Hagi, Morelos. SUBS: McLaughlin, Bassey, Balogun, Defoe, Itten, Zungu, Patterson, Roofe, Jack. ROSS COUNTY: Laidlaw, Randall, Hjelde, Morris, Iacovitti, Naismith, Lakin, Paton, Draper, Vigurs, Shaw. SUBS: Gardyne, Mckay, Hylton, Watson, Charles-Cooke, Tillson, Donaldson, Andreu, Munro. REFEREE: Euan Anderson

Good old BBC...just read their report. Honourable mentions of County's high press, our goals basically down to poor defending, them hitting the bar, Motherwell ending our 6 game winning streak last week...they really are hurting

Because it’s the only way they can stop us, and nothing is beneath that morally corrupt cabal. I agree I don’t see it happening either but I’m running out of ways to not start celebrating!

The biggest plus from this game was to have Ryan Jack back playing

Can't argue with that other than a wee bit of slackness once or twice but generally we played very, very well and 5-0 didn't flatter us at all. Some good performances throughout the team: centre halves were very good, Barisic had a good game and I thought Kent and Hagi both worked hard through the game. Delighted to see Jack back playing and looking to sharp and I also felt Patterson slotted in very well. That's another one in the bag!

Hmmm....thought Hagi played very well today. Each to our own opinion I suppose ?

Good shout compo ?.

An excellent first half. Good to see Kent and Aribo took my advice I gave them before the game on this forum ?

Great 1st half, should be more than 3, we are at it today which is very pleasing

Which was scripted of course. Maybe I should moan before ANY game ...

Also happy to see big Fil back as well - I've been impressed by Balogun but do prefer the big Swede.

This. If I was SG I would say to all players to go out and win the game by half time. If we are not in that position, you're not meeting the required standards and you will be hooked. We need a better tempo to the way we start games IMO

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1-3 in the end. Mendy a hobbling shadow of the player he was when he started with City. Aguero irreplaceable. Foden a gem.

If we haven't stopped playing at the peak of the 3rd wave why would we suddenly stop now.

We have equalled our points total of the 16/17 season. 3 points and we will equal the 17/18 season total.

5 goals. Clean sheet. 5 different scorers. Aribo wonder goal. Ryan Jack back. All shown by the great Rangers TV with knowledgeable analysis. What a day.

Not sure about that tbh, we need cover from the bench in every position and he is cover for Tav, although I agree with your thinking.

Excellent performance and another game ticked off , nice and steady , another positive was the subs looked very hungry to succeed , Jack especially and he deserved a quite beautiful goal

He really does look the part, very difficult for him to get into the team due to the excellent Tav.

Best performance for a while yet you getting the feeling we have another few gears in reserve! Five different scorers, clean sheet, 3 points and another game ticked off. On to Wednesday.

[FT] 5-0. Pretty pleased with that. When can still play better.

Patterson has been quite good - apart from giving the ball away once.

Goaldson makes it 5 ?

“I’ve paid my dues, time after time........”

He will be in his cupboard under the stairs ?

Scripted ... ?

Worldie from Aribo

Like to see that again, Kent looked onside there

Joking aside I presume the fact that it has such an uninspiring name is mainly due to the fact that this place will have a sponsors name attached?

The Club has been hoovering up sponsorships and partnerships like nobody's business, so, perhaps, it should look, now, to sell 'naming rights' for the new facilty. In that regard, I am inclined to go for a beer Company, and would, respectfully, and humbly, suggest THE FAMOUS ORANJEBOOM HOUSE

Helander starts so I'm very happy. Happy that Hagi keeps his place too and a welcome return to the bench for Jack and Roofe. If I was being greedy I would have liked to see Itten start too but hopefully he gets more time than usual off the bench, it should be acknowledged that he bailed us out at Fir Park.

Could we not think of a more inspiring name than New Edminston House?

I’m surprised at the shot locations. I find that he takes quite a lot of speculative shots. I guess that would include shots that aren’t necessarily far out but are very unlikely to go in and are comfortably saved. It is notable to me that there aren’tmany passes near the 6 yard box at all, especially centrally (the location with the highest chance of scoring). I’m not seeing his assist for Arfield there in the 8-0 vs Hamilton though which is the closest to that kind of high-scoring-chance assist that I can remember.

John Hughes has got Ross County going for a few games but how long does it take before the new manager novelty wears off. Every game is starting to get nervy until we score so an early goal this afternoon will settle the nerves. No games are gimmies but surely this has to be one banker on a tricky January with 3 tough away games on paper. Id probably start Defoe today but as Frankie mentioned Itten starting might be on the cards.

Maybe we could appropriate the, "Squeal like a pig!" phrase from the film of the same name.