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Listen to Sportsound using audio icon Rangers 0-0 St Johnstone - Danilo starts amid five changes; Carey in for visitors FT: Aberdeen 1-0 Queen's Park - Substitute Kisnanen with late strike on debut FT: Dundee 6-1 Airdrieonians - Palmer-Houlden, Mc Ghee & Tiffoney net for hosts before visitors' Mac Donald sent off. Portales makes it four & Frizzell nets consolation but Main & Cameron complete rout FT: Falkirk 2-0 Hearts - Ross & Tait score for Championship team, who have Shanley sent off late on FT: Spartans 1-0 Ross County - Henderson gives fourth-tier side upset win Championship: FT: Ayr 3-2 Hamilton - Murphy, Rus & Oakley net for hosts; Shaw & Barjonas get Accies goals Clive Lindsay & Andy Campbell Rangers 0-0 St Johnstone Now Rangers win a corner after Jefte and Rabbi Matondo combine on their left-hand side. James Tavernier's delivery on that same side curls all the way out on the right. Rangers 0-0 St Johnstone St Johnstone mount an attack after Adama Sidibeh closes down Rangers goalkeeper Jack Butland. The visitors eventually win a corner but Butland wanted a free-kick for the initial challenge Rangers clear and are soon back in possession. Rangers 0-0 St Johnstone St Johnstone manager Craig Levein tells BBC Sportsound: "Anytime you play Rangers is a tough game, everybody knows that. "They'll be hurting after their game midweek. "I expect them to come out firing and we have to be ready for that. " Rangers 0-0 St Johnstone Rangers get the game under way. Rangers v St Johnstone (17: 45) Listen to Sportsound commentary of Rangers v St Johnstone using the audio icon. .. Rangers v St Johnstone (17: 45) Rangers and St Johnstone players are on the pitch and the pre-match handshakes ensue. Rangers v St Johnstone (17: 45) We know of four teams already in the hat for the Premier Sports Cup quarter-finals, who will be the fifth? Rangers and St Johnstone will let us know over the next few hours. .. Rangers v St Johnstone (17: 45) Rangers manager Philippe Clement wants his side to move on from the disappointment of their midweek loss against Dynamo Kyiv. "It's part of football and part of life, " he tells BBC Scotland. "If you keep on grieving, you miss out on other opportunities and chances, so you cannot do that as a top professional and someone who wants to work in football. "It’s about standing up and showing your qualities again. It was a hard blow for sure, with these circumstances, with this crazy decision of the referee, but we need to look forward now. "The most important thing today is a result. We’re working hard to do that and to make the players and the squad better and to gel them together better and integrate the new players as fast as possible and develop the young players in the squad. "I know there’s a bright future for Rangers because I know things will only become better. " Rangers v St Johnstone (17: 45) Rangers make five changes following Tuesday's loss to Dynamo Kyiv. Dujon Sterling, Kieran Doweel, Vaclav Cerny, Rabbi Matondo and Danilo all start as Connor Barron, Cyriel Dessers, and Ross Mc Causland drop to the bench and injured Ridvan Yilmaz as well as Tom Lawrence miss out. Just the one alteration for St Johnstone with Graham Carey taking over from Aaron Essel, who is not in the squad. St Johnstone players warming up at Hampden Rangers v St Johnstone (17: 45) St Johnstone lost all three meetings with Rangers last season by an aggregate of 8-0 and they have suffered four straight defeats away to the Glasgow side since a penalty shoot-out Scottish Cup win at Ibrox in April 2021. Rangers v St Johnstone (17: 45) Craig Levein's visitors have had a mixed start to the season but arrive at Hampden on the back of an impressive 3-0 win over Kilmarnock, albeit the hosts were down to 10 men for most of game. The form of Benjamin Kimpioka, with six goals already this season, and fellow striker Adama Sidibeh, with four, has led to media speculation about their futures and scouts will be keen to see how they test a Rangers defence that lost left-back Ridvan Yilmaz to injury on Tuesday. Indeed, St Johnstone have not scored in the latest five meetings between the sides since winning at Mc Diarmid Park in November 2022. Adama Sidibeh (right) is reportedly attracting interest from other clubs Rangers v St Johnstone (17: 45) Cup holders Rangers will look to put Tuesday's Champions League qualifying defeat by Dynamo Kyiv behind them in the first of four all-Premiership ties this weekend. It means Philippe Clement's side return to the national stadium having won just one of their four outings this season - last Saturday's narrow defeat of struggling visitors Motherwell. Rangers' temporary home amid Ibrox renovations was far from full to watch them against the Ukrainians. How many will turn up to see them against less lauded opponents from the east after such a European body blow? Hampden is looked a tad empty at the moment. Rangers v St Johnstone (17: 45) Rangers: Butland, Tavernier, Souttar, Propper, Jefte, Sterling, Dowell, Diomande, Cerny, Matondo, Danilo. Substitutes: Kelly, Barron, Dessers, Davies, King, Mc Causland, Fraser, Mc Kinnon, Rice. St Johnstone: Rae, Raymond, Cameron, Sanders, Neilson, Mac Pherson, Carey, Wright, Sidibeh, M Smith, Kimpioka. Substitutes: Sinclair, May, Clark, C. Smith, Sprangler, Mc Pake, Kirk, Olufunwa, Franczak. Rangers v St Johnstone (17: 45) Jefte retains his place despite the Rangers left-back's midweek red card while striker Danilo makes his first appearance of the season Rangers v St Johnstone (17: 45) Martin Dowden BBC Sport Scotland at Hampden Park Half-full might be on the generous side as Rangers set out to retain this silverware. This looks likely to be one of the emptiest "home" Rangers crowds I can recall and is a sign of the collective feeling of malaise that has engulfed the club since the midweek Champions League blow. St Johnstone, on the other hand, might feel this is a real opportunity to make an early impression on this season. They come here off the back of a great result with a bit of threat up top characterising their early season efforts. This might not be as straight-forward as some might expect. Scottish League 2 Peterhead take over at the top of the fourth tier from inactive Elgin after a single-goal win over Stranraer. Scottish League 1 Kelty take over at the top of the third tier after a fine win away to Arbroath, while Queen of the South are second on goal difference after leapfrogging derby visitors Annan. Rangers v St Johnstone (17: 45) We'll continue to bring to reaction from those thrilling (okay, Dens Park was bit of a stroll) earlier kick-offs. However, we still have one more League Cup last-16 tie to come and it is all-Premiership affair at Hampden. Rangers are back at their temporary home to entertain St Johnstone. Could we have our third surprise cup result of the day? St Johnstone manager Craig Levein and Rangers counterpart Philippe Clement look in a good mood ahead of kick-off Rangers v St Johnstone (17: 45) Craig Levein probably didn't want to make any changes to his side after they trounced Kilmarnock 3-0 last weekend in East Ayrshire, but the St Johnstone manager has been forced into one at Hampden. Midfielder Aaron Essel is out as he is suspended after being sent off against Alloa Athletic in the previous round of the competition. Veteran winger Graham Carey comes in, but Andre Raymond and David Keltjens have failed to recover from knocks. FT: Falkirk 2-0 Heart of Midlothian Falkirk manager John Mc Glynn tells BBC Sportsound he is "very proud, very proud of the players" after their win over top-flight Hearts. "I thought they were enormous, different class - amazing performance, " he says. "We rode our luck early doors. Hearts hit the bar and big Nicky's made two or three good saves with his feet. "When we rode that storm and got over that period, we grew into the game and caused Hearts problems. Second half, Hearts were not really creating a lot. "They just continuously achieve, continually turn out these performances that are not flukes. There's such consistency in their play. " Last Updated 17th August 2024 at 18: 33 Please Note: All times UK. Tables are subject to change. The BBC is not responsible for any changes that may be made. © 2024 BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking.