Football preview: Home supporters have big expectations when Rangers welcome Hearts

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sun 29.Oct
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Ibrox Stadium (50817 seats)

Buckle up for a show! The main antagonists are Rangers and Hearts, a win is the prize and 90 minutes the length.

Insights:
  • Rangers have the fewest conceded goals (5) in Premiership
  • Rangers have scored more than double the goals of Hearts.

The hosts Rangers saw competitive action as recent as three days ago, playing in the Europa League. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Sparta Praha.

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Rangers form and stats

The story so far in the Premiership for Rangers at their home stadium (Ibrox Stadium) is 3 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Jack Butland not having conceded a league goal in 185 minutes.

The Rangers manager Clement and his side return home after a 0-0 draw away versus Sparta Praha in the Europa League. Souttar, defender, was given a rating of 7.84/10 in that game, top of the team. Souttar hit one key pass and won 5 of 7 duels.

Before that game, the 4-0 home victory against Hibernian.

Rangers are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found 7 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 5, drew 1 and lost 1.

The manager Clement will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Dundee in only three days.

From these home matches, Rangers have conceded only 4 goals.

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Hearts form and stats

2 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of Hearts playing as the away team in the Premiership this season.

Hearts failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Celtic (placed 1st) that ended with defeat 1-4. Rowles, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.25. Rowles hit one key pass and won 8 of 11 duels.

A 2-2 draw was the result before that, hosting Hibernian.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Livingston in just three days.

The attacking power of Hearts when travelling is not overwhelming with 3 goals scored from 4 league matches away. It's not easy to score on Hearts as they have only conceded 2 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

Rangers have won or drawn the last 9 matches (7-2-0) versus Hearts.

Top Goalscorers

RangersA. Sima
A. Sima
5 goals
RangersJ. Tavernier
J. Tavernier
3 goals
RangersC. Dessers
C. Dessers
2 goals

Rangers missing players

Hearts missing players

Rangers Hearts
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
9 5 1 Played P 1 4 9
6 3 0 Won W 0 2 3
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 2
3 2 1 Lost L 1 2 4
17 10 0 Scored S 0 3 8
5 4 1 Conceded C 1 2 9
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 89%
67% 60% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 25% 44%
44% 60% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 22%
33% 60% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 22%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 11%
11% 20% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 22%
67% 60% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 50% 44%
22% 20% 100% Failed to Score F T 100% 50% 44%
 
6 4.6 6 Corners for (avg) C F 8 7.5 7.9
3.6 4 2 Corners against (avg) C A 4 4.5 4.4
1.6 1.8 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.8 2.1
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
19.1 19.4 17 Shots (avg) S ( 11 13.5 14.1
6.7 6.6 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 5.2 4.2
28% 30% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 14% 21%
 
7.3 8.6 7 Shots against (avg) S A 13 11 12.3
2.7 3.6 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 3.2 4.1
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Hearts haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Rangers have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Rangers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Rangers have scored more than double the goals of Hearts.
  • Rangers have the fewest conceded goals (5) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (3) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most clean sheets (3) at home in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most clean sheets (6) in Premiership
  • Rangers have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Rangers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Celtic 9 8 1 0 23 6 4 3 1 0 10 3 5 5 0 0 13 3 17 25
2 Rangers 9 6 0 3 17 5 5 3 0 2 10 4 4 3 0 1 7 1 12 18
3 St. Mirren 8 4 3 1 11 10 4 2 1 1 5 6 4 2 2 0 6 4 1 15
4 Hearts 9 3 2 4 8 9 5 1 2 2 5 7 4 2 0 2 3 2 -1 11
5 Kilmarnock 9 2 4 3 11 12 5 2 2 1 7 5 4 0 2 2 4 7 -1 10
6 Motherwell 8 3 1 4 7 9 4 2 0 2 5 5 4 1 1 2 2 4 -2 10
7 Livingston 9 2 4 3 9 15 4 1 2 1 3 4 5 1 2 2 6 11 -6 10
8 Aberdeen 8 2 3 3 10 10 4 1 1 2 5 5 4 1 2 1 5 5 0 9
9 Hibernian 9 2 3 4 13 16 4 1 1 2 6 6 5 1 2 2 7 10 -3 9
10 Dundee 8 1 5 2 7 10 4 1 3 0 4 3 4 0 2 2 3 7 -3 8
11 Ross County 8 2 2 4 6 12 4 1 1 2 3 4 4 1 1 2 3 8 -6 8
12 St. Johnstone 8 0 4 4 3 11 4 0 2 2 3 7 4 0 2 2 0 4 -8 4

Read more about Premiership

The Scottish Premiership is the top division of football in Scotland, the Scottish Professional Football League. Twelve teams play 38 fixtures to top the league table in a season running from August to May. The teams first meet each other three times. Then the league splits in two for five more games.