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The Clydesdale Bank Premier League match had six goals, seven bookings and a penalty at each end.

Goals from Andrew Driver, Ibrahim Tall, Michael Stewart and Kestutis Ivaskevicius meant Hearts ran out winners, with Rangers now having to regroup before their Champions League opener against Stuttgart on Wednesday.

Hearts took the lead with 13 minutes gone. Marius Zaliukas won the aerial battle with Carlos Cuellar before trying to set up Ksanavicius in front of goal. Cuellar intercepted, but his clearance fell only as far as Driver, who gleefully lashed into the top corner from just outside the area, his effort taking a deflection off Alan Hutton.

Hearts doubled their lead after 26 minutes. Zaliukas tried his luck with a hopeful shot which cannoned off the bodies lining the edge of the box. The ball then broke kindly to Tall, who rifled a right-footed shot from 20 yards past Allan McGregor.

Hutton had been booked earlier and he was joined in referee Mike McCurry's book by DaMarcus Beasley for a shove on Robbie Neilson. Neilson was also cautioned for dissent as tempers on both sides threatened to boil over and other players became involved in the melee.

Rangers' Barry Ferguson and Jean-Claude Darcheville were thrown into the action for the second half. The ineffective Kris Boyd and Amdy Faye were the players sacrificed. Ferguson's introduction had an almost immediate impact on the game as he won a penalty after being felled in the box by Neilson and Daniel Cousin stepped up to despatch low under the body of Steve Banks.

Hearts restored their lead after 65 minutes when the referee ruled Ivaskevicius had been fouled in the box by Hutton and Stewart rifled low into McGregor's bottom right-hand corner.

The home side were now on a high and Ivaskevicius helped himself to a goal with 20 minutes to go as Rangers' hopes of a comeback grew ever fainter.

Rangers pulled a goal back three minutes later when Darcheville held held off his marker to collect a long ball from Kevin Thomson before setting up Beasley for the left-footed angled drive.