Hearts 1 Rangers 1 LIVE as Michael Steinwender levels on home debut

There is nothing sweet for Rangers about the 16 point gap to Premiership leaders and rivals Celtic.

And if that margin isn't reduced back to 13 points at full time in Gorgie this afternoon then Philippe Clement will be under even more pressure.

Sitting 13 points off the league summit is hardly something to celebrate but it's a sign of where the Light Blues find themselves right now.

They came a cropper in a Scottish Cup shocker against Queen's Park seven days ago to effectively end their domestic season in early February.

Hearts are in decent nick having not lost in eight games, a run that stretches back to their Boxing Day Edinburgh derby defeat at Tynecastle.

They haven't beaten Rangers for almost five years. Will this finally be the day? Find out as we bring you all the build up, match action and reaction in our LIVE blog.

Hearts: Gordon, Baningime, Grant, Shankland, Steinwender, Spittal, Kabangu, Wilson, Penrice, McCart, Forrester Subs: Clark, Nieuwenhof, Forrest, Milne, Neilson, Kartum, Musa, Vargas, Taylor

Rangers: Butland, Tavernier, Souttar, Nsiala, Jefte, Raskin, Diomande, Lawrence, Cerny, Hagi, Igamane Subs: Kelly, Ridvan, Propper, Dessers, Bajrami, Fernandes, King, Rice, Curtis

Hearts have their tails up.

Shankland shows great strength to wrestle possession back on the byline and stand a cross up to Kabangu at the back post.

He brings it down and shoots, and the crowd scream handball but nothing doing.

Rangers having to weather a bit of a maroon storm at the moment.

Almost an instant response from Rangers.

Baningime goes down under a flailing hand from Igamane but Beaton waves play on.

He squares to Cerny who shoots, and the deflection takes it narrowly wide of the post with Gordon rooted to the spot.

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