Hibernian defeated Rangers 2-1 at Ibrox on Sunday afternoon, with Josh Campbell's penalty opening the scoring before Callum Wright's goal three minutes into added time sealed the points and left Derek McInnes without a victory in his first three matches as manager.
The breakthrough arrived in the 11th minute, when Campbell stepped up and sent Ivor Pandur the wrong way from 12 yards after VAR flagged a foul by summer signing Vanja Dragojevic on Jason Kerr at a corner. Dragojevic, newly arrived from Partizan Belgrade and making his first Gers start, had been selected at right-back rather than in his usual midfield role. It was the visiting side's first shot of the game.
McInnes had made six changes from the side beaten in Poland, handing a debut to South Africa centre-back Olwethu Makhanya. Rangers dominated the ball but found Raphael Sallinger in defiant form — the Hibs goalkeeper parried a Nico Raskin effort on the hour mark and then tipped a shot from captain Lawrence Shankland on to the crossbar. Thelo Aasgaard sent a 25-yard drive just over the bar, and with five minutes remaining substitute Djeidi Gassama burst down the left, his low cross inadvertently turned into his own net by Hibs defender Miguel Chaiwa. Wright had other ideas, gathering the ball on the counter in the third minute of added time and guiding a shot into the far corner to restore Hibs' advantage. Hibs recorded just two shots on target all afternoon; Rangers managed nine.
The afternoon worsened considerably when Youssef Chermiti was stretchered off after colliding with an advertising board. The 22-year-old had been the subject of a £22m bid from Galatasaray — a figure Rangers rejected — with the club valuing him above the initial £19.6m received for Calvin Bassey when he joined Ajax in 2023. Chermiti moved to Glasgow last summer in a deal worth up to £10m and scored 15 goals while contributing five assists across all competitions last season. McInnes said: "I think the fact that the club rejected such a big number would suggest how important he is to us, so we're delighted from that side of it." On the nature of the setback, the manager added: "It's a knee injury of some sort but I think it would be silly to speculate anything until we get the scan results tomorrow."
Hibs boss David Gray had spent the previous week challenging his players to produce history, asking when the club had previously won three successive league matches at Ibrox. The answer, he revealed, was that it had never been done. The travelling support celebrated at full time while a large portion of the home end booed McInnes' players from the pitch.
Rangers now sit five points behind both Celtic and St Mirren, each of whom have six points from two William Hill Premiership fixtures. That deficit follows a 1-1 league draw with Dundee United and a 2-1 Europa League qualifying defeat in Poland on McInnes' watch. A second leg against Jagiellonia Bialystok follows at Ibrox on Thursday, with a Premier Sports Cup meeting against St Mirren at home on Sunday.
Former Ibrox midfielder Ryan Jack observed that three fixtures without a win at a club with Rangers' expectations was already prompting serious questions, even allowing for many new arrivals still bedding in. McInnes acknowledged the crowd's anger but made clear the responsibility to deliver lay with his squad. "We're not as bad as some people will be saying at the minute," he told Sky Sports.
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