Todd Cantwell stakes Rangers claim for Hampden start but dithering Dessers frustrates in Hearts thriller - 3 talking points

Rangers were handed one last dash of Premiership pain as they blew the chance to savour the joy of six against Hearts.

While bitter rivals Celtic were celebrating another league title, Gers were left to wrap up their campaign in Gorgie. And there was more frustration in store in the capital as Kyosuke Tagawa’s last gasp strike denied them a sixth win out of six against Stevie Naismith’s men.

Hearts were first to strike as Top Gun Lawrence Shankland opened the scoring with his 31st Hearts goal of the season. Another half-time telling off got Philippe Clement’s side going as Ross McCausland fired the Light Blues level. Todd Cantwell made up for the blunder that gifted Shankland his goal as he swept him a sublime second before substitute Fabio Silva added a third. But Hearts roared back to snatch a draw thanks to late efforts from Dexter Lembikisa and Tagawa

The Jambos are now looking forward to next season’s European travels. Gers, meanwhile, will have to raise themselves for the Scottish Cup Final and hope they can finally find a way to beat Celtic if they are to avoid another crushing end to the season.

Clement had to issue a half-time rollicking on Wednesday night to get his team going against Dundee. So it was little surprise the Ibrox side came out looking to make a better start this time as they bid to get back in their boss’ good books.

Scott Wright had a goal-bound strike cleared by the head Kyle Rowles while Cyriel Dessers had a unsuccessful penalty claim checked by VAR after Frankie Kent appeared to have a fistful of the Gers frontman’s shirt as they chased a cross into the box.

A blunder by Rowles almost handed Gers the opener 20 minutes as the Aussies was stripped of possession inside his own box by McCausland.