Dundee 1-2 Rangers: First Scottish Premiership win for Mark Warburton

Mark Warburton savoured his first win in top-flight football as Rangers beat Dundee 2-1 at Dens Park in the Scottish Premiership.

Harry Forrester and Kenny Miller gave Rangers a deserved advantage before Mark O'Hara netted for Dundee late in the first half.

And despite a big improvement from Dundee after the break, Rangers held firm to claim the three points.

The visitors opened the scoring on 14 minutes when Forrester hooked the ball high into the net from eight yards as Dundee struggled to clear after James Tavernier had raced into the penalty area.

Dundee finally got forward when Danny Williams ran at the Rangers defence before shooting straight at Wes Foderingham.

Forrester then fired over the target from 20 yards after Lee Wallace cut the ball back from the left side of the box.

Dundee were again almost caught out on their right side when Forrester ghosted in behind a defender to send his header over the bar from Tavernier's cross.

But Rangers doubled their lead when Wallace and Barrie McKay combined to again open up Dundee on the Rangers left and Miller (39) fired a shot inside the upright when the ball broke to him in the box.

Miller should have added another three minutes after the break when he was slipped through by McKay, but Scott Bain got down to take the ball off the striker's toes.

Instead Dundee pulled a goal back when O'Hara climbed above two defenders at the back post to meet a corner from Williams and power his header into the net a minute before the break.

Rangers survived a minor scare when Wallace and Foderingham combined to snuff out Williams in a rare second-half opportunity.

And Dundee were almost gifted an equaliser as Foderingham cleared straight to Fayssal El Bakhtaoui who found fellow substitute Yordi Teijsse with a quick pass, but he stabbed his shot from 18 yards straight at the goalkeeper.

Rangers created their only chance of the second period deep in stoppage-time when McKay raced clear of the Dundee defence and sent his low angled drive past the far post.