Ryan Naderi heads home Rangers’ opener against Kilmarnock.

Gers beat Kilmarnock 3-1 to go ahead of Celtic overnight Calvin Miller scores two penalties in Hearts 5-0 St Mirren Derek McInnes praised his Rangers players as they moved to the top of the league and blamed the extended international break for some disjointed play in a 3-1 win over Kilmarnock.

Rangers went into the break three up at Ibrox after Ryan Naderi twice headed home either side of a Kevin Kelsy strike.

But Killie had chances throughout, especially after the interval, before finally getting their reward when substitute Nicky Clescenco struck on a last-minute counterattack.

The visitors ended the game with six efforts on target to Rangers’ four, but the home goalkeeper, Ivor Pandur, was seriously troubled once before being beaten.

Rangers moved a point ahead of Celtic, who face Motherwell on Sunday, thanks to a sixth consecutive league win.

McInnes, who started with eight of the 13 players who had been away on international duty, said: “The fact we went top of the league, we shouldn’t lose sight of that.

There’s a lot of positives, but the performance was disjointed at times.

“I was really pleased with how clinical we were in the first half.

We put the ball in the box, we scored goals.

We just didn’t do it enough for whatever reason.

But we have to be honest, for long spells we looked like a team that hadn’t been together for the last three weeks.

“There’s a bit of understanding for me where the players have been.

Whoever came up with this idea, it’s such a long time for your players to be away.

We pay their wages, we look after our players and for them to be away for nearly three weeks is too long.

But we’ve got the job done and credit the players for digging deep and getting three points.” Hearts eased to their biggest home win in the league for three-and-a-half years as they dismantled St Mirren 5-0 to remain on the coattails of Rangers and Celtic.

Hearts’ Calvin Miller scores his side’s second from the spot against St Mirren.

Calvin Miller scored two penalties, either side of half-time, before goals from Cláudio Braga and Josh McPake ensured a smooth afternoon for Hearts before their Conference League opener at home to Nordsjaelland on Thursday.

It was Hearts’ biggest league win at Tynecastle since they defeated Ross County 6-1 under Steven Naismith in April 2023 and they are now comfortably the top scorers in the league.

Their manager, Wouter Vrancken, said: “We try to play a kind of football that is positive and constructive and proactive, and not a reaction.

I think people come to the stadium to see nice football, to see goals from your side.

“Also for the players, we try to play a style of football that, when you were a little boy, when you started playing on the street, you played to score goals, not to stay in front of your goal and prevent the goals. skip past newsletter promotion after newsletter promotion “You want to score goals because this is the nicest feeling you have in football.

Some days it will work better than other days, but it’s nice to see that it worked well today.” Ashley Hay scrambled in a stoppage-time winner to secure Dundee a 2-1 victory at Falkirk.

The striker, out since early August with a ligament sprain, converted from close range after latching on to Ethan Hamilton’s free-kick in the first minute of added time.

His goal completed the turnaround after Owen Bevan’s second goal for the Dark Blues had cancelled out Jacob Murrell’s first-half penalty at Falkirk Stadium.

Marink Reedijk endured a disappointing first game as Hibernian’s manager as his side suffered a 1-0 defeat against Dundee United at Tannadice.

The hosts scored in the first half through winger Daniel Bennie, on loan from QPR, and the visitors finished the game with 10 men after Jacob Devaney was sent off.

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