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Rangers 4-2 Hearts: Youssef Chermiti hat-trick closes gap to league leaders

  /  autty

Youssef Chermiti hit a hat-trick as Rangers moved to within two points of Hearts at the top of the table with a 4-2 win over the league leaders at Ibrox in a blockbuster Sunday in the Scottish Premiership title race.

After Celtic scored a 97th minute winner in a thriller against Kilmarnock earlier in the day, both sets of players knew the importance of three points in Glasgow's south side and traded blows early on as a Michael Steinwender own goal cancelled out Marc Leonard's opener.

Ibrox was stunned into silence again on the half hour mark when Claudio Braga produced a magnificent header to fire Hearts in front for a second time before Youssef Chermiti dragged the hosts level again.

And the Portuguese striker took centre stage in the second half, with his header putting Rangers in front for the first time before competing his hat-trick in the closing stages.

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