Livingston vs Cove Rangers: Scottish Cup Report, Reaction & Stats

Ryan McGowan and Tete Yengi scored the goals as the Livingston championship lightened past the third level Cove Rangers to secure a Scottish Cup quarter -final place.

McGowan was in the right place in the six-yard box to beat Reece McALear’s Frispark-Hans first of the season.

Another Adelaide-Born player added the other two when Safitute Yengi twice found the same lower right corner to take his number for the season to six.

Paul Hartley’s Cove tried to make history by reaching the last eight of the competition for the first time.

Visitors will look back on good savings of Jerome Prior from Findlay Marshall to spoil that dream.

Cove’s 11-goal striker Mitch Megginson also hit the outside of a post with a quick taken effort from 20 yards.

There was no lack of Scottish copy -winning experience across the two sides.

Livi-striker Stevie May lifted the trophy twice with St. Johnstone and the centerback pairing of McGowan and Danny Wilson succeeded with hearts and ranks respectively.

As for Cove, manager Hartley was a Scottish Cup winner with hearts and Celtic as a player, while Captain Fraser Fyvie tasted glory with Hibernian, three years after lifting the FA Cup with Wigan Athletic.

Fyvie had one of League 1’s other good chances and shoots right on ahead of a nicely processed corner sparkrutine.

The Frenchman’s opposite number of Nick Suman did a good job of holding Cove in a draw as he dived high to his right to reject Dan Finlayson’s ball heading.

But Suman couldn’t do anything about Yengi’s deadly strikes, one together by Danny Wilson’s header and the other created by Lewis Smith.