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In the "Premier" league of Scotland, after the 4th round matches played on Saturday, the championship leader Edinburgh "Hearts" remained unbeaten, while Rangers convincingly won the tense Glasgow clubs derby.
The impressively started season "Hearts" continues to play very successfully and this time met the "Aberdeen" club at home, which unexpectedly defeated the "Rangers" team after a dramatic end to last week's match.
Before this match, "Hearts" coach G.Burley did not make any substitutions in the starting lineup of the team, so the match started with S.Mikoliūnas and E.Jankauskas on the field, while D.Česnauskis, despite his goal in the Lithuanian national team match, remained on the bench.
At the beginning of the match, the most active were the duo of Czech R.Škacel and R.Bednar, who created a couple of chances for Jankauskas to score, but initially he missed with his left foot and later failed to direct the ball into the goal with his head.
The hosts broke ahead in the 20th minute when Škacel accurately struck the ball after receiving a bounced ball in the penalty area. Later, good opportunities were not taken by S.Pressley, so the first half ended with "Hearts" leading 1-0.
After the break, like in the previous match, Mikoliūnas did not return to the field, and he was replaced again by J.McAllister. The latter was close to scoring a goal until the end of the match, but hit the post, and M.Pospišilas secured the victory for the Edinburgh club after receiving a pass from Jankauskas and sending the ball into the net with a beautiful strike.
Meanwhile, in the Glasgow derby, "Rangers" achieved a convincing victory and moved up to second place in the league, defeating the "Celtic" team 3-1 at home, where two players received red cards. The hosts took the lead after goals from D.Pršo and T.Buffel, and although S.Maloney softened the difference with a penalty kick in the 86th minute, N.Novo soon scored from the penalty spot and sealed the winning result.
In other matches, Edinburgh "Hibernian" won 2-0 away against the league newcomer "Falkirk", "Dundee Utd" defeated "Motherwell" in a lively and very productive match, where 9 goals were scored, and the meetings of "Inverness CT" and "Kilmarnock" as well as "Livingston" and "Dunfermline" without A.Skerlos ended in draws.
Results of the 4th round
3 - 1
34' [1 - 0] Dado Prso
51' [2 - 0] Thomas Buffel
86' [2 - 1] Shaun Maloney (pen.)
88' [3 - 1] Nacho Novo (pen.)
32' Alan Thompson, 90' Neil Lennon ("Celtic") sent off
0 - 2
36' [0 - 1] Scott Brown
63' [0 - 2] Derek Riordan (pen.)
2 - 0
20' [1 - 0] Rudi Skacel
85' [2 - 0] Michal Pospisil
2 - 2
40' [1 - 0] Craig Brewster
71' [1 - 1] Colin Nish
72' [2 - 1] Craig Brewster
74' [2 - 2] Kris Boyd
1 - 1
44' [0 - 1] Lee Makel
64' [1 - 1] Ramon Pereira
4 - 5
6' [1 - 0] Alan McCormack
12' [2 - 0] Scott McDonald
42' [2 - 1] Lee Miller
49' [3 - 1] Marc Fitzpatrick
53' [3 - 2] David Fernandez
57' [4 - 2] Jim Hamilton
67' [4 - 3] Lee Miller
71' [4 - 4] Grant Brebner
74' [4 - 5] Grant Brebner
