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Aidan Smith

Rangers ace James Tavernier shuts down taunting Hibs fan with perfect comeback

James Tavernier brutally shut down a taunting Hibs fan at Easter Road on Sunday as he sent his free-kick past David Marshall.

Michael Beale's side ran out 3-1 winners against their Edinburgh rivals thanks to goals from the skipper, Ianis Hagi and Todd Cantwell.

Tavernier opened the scoring with a stunning free-kick and prior to stepping up to fire towards goal, a home fan looked to troll the Ibrox captain.

In a video widely shared on social media, the supporter can be heard shouting "Oi! Tavernier! Go and join your brother at Musselburgh..Middlesbrough.."

A fellow punter was in stitches over the shout before he was told: "You ken what I mean, shut up!".

Tavernier then stepped up and fired his free-kick past Marshall in the Hibs goal and wheeled away in celebration.

Meanwhile, Michael Beale hopes for better luck on the injury front at Rangers next season as he confirmed Connor Goldson is out for 10 weeks.

The 30-year-old centre-back missed the 3-1 cinch Premiership win against Hibernian at Easter Road on Sunday with a foot injury picked up in the victory over Celtic last weekend.

Beale described the mentality of his side in winning as “absolutely fantastic” after Alfredo Morelos, Glen Kamara and Scott Wright were added to a long list of absentees, with Rabbi Matondo on the bench but unable to come on.

On-loan attacker Malik Tillman is back at Bayern Munich with a hamstring problem which has ended his season while Ben Davies, Ryan Kent, Borna Barisic, Antonio Colak, Kemar Roofe, Tom Lawrence, Steven Davis and Filip Helander were also missing.

On Goldson’s absence, Beale said: “He’ll be out for about 10 weeks. He had a funny land on his foot with a couple of minutes to go last week. He wanted to play on.

“Afterwards, we’ve had it scanned and seen a specialist so he’ll probably be about six weeks where he’s got to try and stay off it and then a four-week, five-week rehab back into the start of next season.

“All going well, he’ll be available for the first game of next season, albeit he might have a slightly modified pre-season compared to the others.

“This season seems to have been the worst season ever for the club, or certainly in my times associated with the club.

“Hopefully, that’s out of the way and next season we get a clean bill of health.

“We’ll look to strengthen every area this summer. There will be some new faces in to contribute.

“I think there’s a real clarity about the way we’re playing and I’ve no doubts that come the summer we’ll be in a stronger position squad-wise and have even more clarity after a good pre-season.”

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