St Mirren 0-1 Rangers: Cyriel Dessers achieves visitors narrow win
The Nigeria striker opened the scoring in Paisley with his 12th strike of the season after meeting John Lundstram's searching ball over the top and rounding a hesitant Zach Hemming.
But, between efforts from on-loan Celtic midfielder Kwon Hyeok-kyu, Elvis Bwomono and Lewis Jamieson, the hosts should have found a leveller before the break.
Philippe Clement's side delivered a more controlled second-half display but failed to add to their tally as Dessers was denied by the right-hand post shortly after substitute Tom Lawrence had drilled just wide.
St Mirren struggled to create anything following the interval until Alex Gogic's late close-range shot was crucially blocked by the impressive John Souttar before Luke Bolton headed off the woodwork from the resulting corner.
A fourth league defeat in five games leaves the Paisley club fifth in the table and Rangers could find themselves five points adrift of Celtic again if the leaders beat Ross County later on Saturday.
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