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Scotland: Unbeaten Hearts stay top, Rangers share second [Sun Sep 18th, 2005]
Glasgow (Reuters) - Champions Rangers moved into joint second in the Scottish Premier League with a 3-0 home win over Kilmarnock as Hearts stayed top after a 1-0 victory at Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
Unbeaten Hearts, who have won their first seven outings of the season, head the standings on 21 points. Rangers have 13 points along with Celtic, Kilmarnock and Hibernian.
Croatian striker Dado Prso opened the scoring for Rangers with a penalty in the ninth minute.
Captain Barry Ferguson added a second on 67 minutes and Kilmarnock defender Gordon Greer completed a miserable afternoon for Kilmarnock by turning the ball into his own net for the third.
Rangers manager Alex McLeish was delighted with his team's performance after their gruelling 3-2 UEFA Champions League win over Porto in midweek.
McLeish told BBC radio: "It was a tough six days and when Dado Prso came in to the dressing room, he said: 'Well done lads, it will be like that after every Champions League game, we will be tired'. He has more experience of it than most of us.
"Kilmarnock had a few chances in the first half and we had a couple of scares, but in the second half the system was much better. We are going in the right direction."
League leaders Hearts maintained their 100 percent winning record, Czech international Rudi Skacel keeping up his tally of scoring in every league game this season with the only goal of the match at Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
"It was maybe our poorest attacking performance, but we defended very well, kept a clean sheet and got the three points," Hearts manager George Burley told the BBC.
In other games on Saturday, Motherwell hammered Premier League newcomers Falkirk 5-0, Aberdeen won 2-0 at Dunfermline and Dundee United earned their first home league victory of the season with a 2-0 success against bottom club Livingston.
Richie Foran struck twice for Motherwell, late in the first half and almost immediately after the break, with Jim Hamilton, Shaun Fagan and Scott McDonald scoring the other goals.
Celtic, who have won four times in their six league outings, play Hibernian on Sunday.
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