Starting XI (Rangers): Bell, Faure, Wallace, Black, McCulloch, Mohsni, Aird, Law, Shiels, Daly and Templeton
Subs: Little, Peralta, Cribari, Simonsen, Foster, Smith, Crawford
Booked: Mohsni, Templeton
Subs Used: Peralta, Crawford and Little
Subs: Thomson, Moore, Young, Husband, El-Bakhtaoui, Drummond and Goodfellow
Booked: Morris and Wallace
Subs Used: Thomson, El-Bakhtaoui and Moore
My Man of the Match: Dean Shiels
photo; hatrick hero
Dunfermline make four changes to the starting XI who won 3-1 against East Fife on the 1st February 2013. Grainger, Page and Forbes out of the team all together with Thomson being dropped to the bench. This makes room for Falkingham, Whittle and Geggan in the starting XI. Rangers however don't make any changes to the team that won 2-1 against Brechin on the 1st. Even though Mohsni got red carded due to it being a cup game he is still allowed to play.
Rangers start of as strong as usual. With them putting pressure on Dunfermline right from the start. A shot from Shiels is held comfortably for Scully. Dunfermline try to keep the pressure on Rangers as they play up and down the park for the first 5 minutes.
Dunfermline looking like they are going to break the dead lock, until Rangers put pressure on Scully for the lead up of the first Shiels goal.
Goal One (Dean Shiels, 7th minute): Great build up play from Templeton. Templeton's shot was blocked but only as far as Shiels to allow him to turn and slot it past Scully to give Rangers the lead in the Cup, with only 7 and a half minutes on the clock.
After Rangers take the lead, Dunfermline as pushing up the park with them putting pressure on Bell in the Rangers goal. It is all very much to play for as we come up to the 15 minute mark.
Law begins to put pressure on the Dunfermline defenders, with a good play in the box but not quite managing to do anything with it. Also Templeton drove up the park but it was held by Scully brilliantly.
Dunfermline try to get back into the game as we approach the 20 minute mark but Rangers defenders along with Aird doing well to stop the attack.
Goal Two (Dean Shiels, 23th minute): Dunfermline failed to clear after a Daly header was saved. Shiels was waiting at the edge of the 6 yard box to drive it past Scully, to get his second of the evening and put Rangers two goals up and on their way to booking their place in the Quarter Finals.
As we approach the half hour mark, Rangers are looking comfortable on the ball. Dunfermline trying everything they can to try and gain a goal back but they aren't able to break down the strong Rangers defence. First real pressure comes from Shankland, but their corner didn't do anything to pressure Bell in the Rangers goal.
Shiels looks like he is away to get a first half hatrick but Scully manages to hold it after Shiels looses his footing at the edge of the box. Faure along with Shiels again both having attempts on goal but neither of them were into the back of the net.
Goal Three (David Templeton, 37th minute): Templeton takes it himself, wriggles himself past the Dunfermline defence then manages to drill it past Scully. It looks like it is game over as Rangers are now three goals up.
Dunfermline again being to push up the park but they aren't able to get it past the Rangers defence again. The Rangers teams experience is showing with the young Dunfermline side. Aird does well keeping the Dunfermline strikers at bay as they push to get a goal back as we approach half time.
photo;Templeton after he scored
Half Time Rangers 3 - 0 Dunfermline
A very dominated first half by Rangers sees them 3-0 up, as they go into the second half. Dunfermline didn't really do much to pressure the Rangers side. With only four of the Dunfermline side being over 20 it looks very hard for them to break down Rangers. It's onto the second half we go and see how many more goals Rangers can get as they play to win their place in the Quarter finals of the Scottish Cup.
Rangers push as soon as the second half kicks off with Dunfermline trying to make a break through. However, this doesn't help much as Wallace runs up the park heading for goal.
Goal Four (Dean Shiels, 47th minute): Good team play, sees' Wallace have a shot. It gets blocked and pushed back but only as far as Shiels, who manages to slot it passed Scully. For his hatrick. Rangers have now definitely booked their place in the Quarter Finals. Its game over for Dunfermline.
Templeton tries to get on the score sheet again as well. Its all about Rangers now and Dunfermline can't do anything about it, Rangers are just too strong for the Dunfermline side to hold. Rangers manage to get corner after corner which puts more pressure on the Dunfermline defence, however none of the corners are able to get into the back of the net.
Shots coming from McCulloch, Aird and Templeton as they approach the hour mark. However, all of these shots are saved or blocked by Scully or the Dunfermline defence.
The only real attempt from Dunfermline was from Wallace. Rangers had shots from Little.
There wasn't much game action after around the 80 minute mark. It was a poor last 20 minutes as Rangers knew they had won their place into the Quarter Finals.
Full Time Rangers 4 - 0 Dunfermline
photo;action shot
Overall, the game was all about Rangers, they were definitely the better team with them having most of the possessions and attempts on goal. However, for a very young Dunfermline side they done well holding Rangers to only four goals as they were putting a lot of pressure on Scully. Well done to Rangers, who were the first team of the weekend to book their place into the draw for the Quarters, which is drawn on Sunday, February 9th after St Mirren take on Dundee United at Tannadice.
Attendance: 19,396
My man of the match was Dean Shiels, as he has shown once again that he deserves a place in the Rangers team more often. After being hit with a injured spell at the tail end of the last season and being left out of the team at the start of this season, he has shown McCoist that he deserves to be in the team. Shiels netted his fifth, sixth and seventh goal of the season which is brilliant considering he hadn't played much until the tail end of last year.
photo;another action shot
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