Philippe Clement's big Cantwell call shows Rangers boss takes no prisoners but he can't afford NOT to win Viaplay Cup - Keith Jackson

Todd Cantwell certainly didn’t look too pleased about it.

And, if truth be told, Philippe Clement might have been the only man inside Hampden Park yesterday who thought it was a bright idea at the time. But, by telling the talismanic Cantwell to stay inside during the half time interval, and replacing him with Scott Wright, the Belgian’s big call turned into a decisive game changer.

He may not have a magic stick to wave around but Clement may well have something big and shiny in his hands the next time he makes this short trip to Glasgow’s south side, to face Aberdeen in the Viaplay Cup Final. Because this is one trophy that he cannot afford not to lift. And all the early indications suggest he has absolutely no intention of fluffing his brief. Having made such a significant decision during the half time interval, Clement watched Wright inject the urgency and running power that was needed to break down the resilience of a stuffy Hearts side and make it fold like a pack of cards.

And an entertaining, goal strewn romp of a second half helped change the mood of an entire weekend of semi-final action.

Having done so much fretting over the potential for pyrotechnics to light Hampden up in the worst imaginable way, there was almost an inevitably that SPFL bosses would end up with a couple of fairly damp squibs instead.

A 1-0 win for the Dons on Saturday evening in a match which only really caught fire in the final 15 minutes followed by yesterday’s 45 minute stand off between Hearts and Rangers.

It may have begun with smoke bombs at one end and a few rockets at the other but the real fireworks did not arrive until the second half when the Rangers attack suddenly sparked into life - inspired chiefly by a Brazilian striker, a