Rangers had the ball for long spells, but Hibernian kept the one chance that mattered from turning into an equaliser. Kanayo Megwa turned back and blocked Youssef Chermiti’s close-range effort after Daisuke Yokota had pulled the ball back inside Ibrox.
That moment summed up Rangers Vs Hibernian in real time: Rangers with 77% of the possession, yet still looking blunt when they reached the final third. The move had opened up just enough space for Chermiti to sweep the ball goalward from roughly eight yards out, only for Megwa to throw himself into the path of the shot and keep Hibernian in front.
The intervention mattered because it came when Rangers were beginning to build pressure without making it count. Findlay Curtis was their main attacking threat at the moment, Nicolas Raskin had already seen a lobbed ball cleared, and a Youssef Chermiti cross was overhit and drifted out for a goal kick. The pattern was plain enough: Rangers could keep the game pinned where they wanted it, but they were still struggling to turn possession into a clean finish.
That is why Megwa’s block carried such weight. It was not just a defensive recovery; it was the kind of stop that can decide how a match feels long before the final whistle. Kheredine Idessane, reporting for Sport Scotland at Ibrox, captured a passage in which Hibernian had to survive rather than dominate, and did it with one last-ditch intervention when Rangers had already stacked up the territory.
The unresolved question is not whether Rangers had enough of the ball — they did. It is whether they would ever turn that control into a finish Hibernian could not block. For now, Megwa has already answered the biggest chance of the night.
