SILVERWARE FOR FASHION

…AS GLASGOW RANGERS SCOOP THE SCOTTISH CUP

CHIPOLOPOLO striker Fashion Sakala collected his first silverware at Glasgow Rangers after the Scottish outfit beat Heart of Midlothian 2-0 to claim the Scottish Cup in the final played on Saturday at Hampden

Park.

Substitutes Ryan Jack and Scott Wright scored the two quick goals for Rangers in first half of extra time to scoop the Scottish Cup after a cagey 90 minutes affair which produced no goals.

Rangers dug deep in the first half of extra time to score two goals in three minutes by substitutes Ryan Jack and Scott Wright that gave them the Scottish Cup for the first time since 2009. Joe Temitope Ayodele-Aribo Aribo headed a Bassey cross over early in extra-time but Jack’s 22yard strike, after Halkett had cleared a corner, gave the goal keeper no chance as the ball went flying past him and going in off the crossbar. Then, in a swift Gers break three minutes later, Wright took a well-weighted pass from Kent on the break and drilled a shot low past Gordon to again spark wild scenes of delight in the blue half of the stadium. Sakala played the last fifteen minutes of extra time for the Rangers FC side that bounced back from their disappointing UEFA Europa League final defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt. The former Zanaco FC winger came on for Nigeria's Joe Temitope Ayodele-Aribo before the start of the second half of extra time.

Sakala could have added his name on the scoresheet five minutes after he was introduced but failed to slot the ball into the back of the net despite having hard only the goal keeper to beat.

Rangers’ manager Giovanni van Bronckhorst who won the cup playing for Rangers in 2000, claimed his first trophy as manager after taking over from Steven Gerrard in November. The Scottish Cup becomes Sakala’s first trophy since his move to Europe in 2017 and ends his debut season in Scotland with 12 goals in all competitions after he scored nine league goals and three goals in the Scottish Cup.