Preview: Rangers likely to beat Motherwell at Ibrox Stadium

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sun 24.Sep
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Ibrox Stadium (50817 seats)

Motherwell have travelled here for an action-packed battle versus the hosting Rangers. Prepare for the fixture with this thorough Premiership preview!

Insights:
  • Rangers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Motherwell have the most points from losing position (3) in Premiership

There haven't been much to rest for the hosts, as they were involved in a Europa League game only three days ago. This match was also played here at Ibrox Stadium. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Motherwell have had more rest.

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Rangers form and stats

Only two Premiership home games for Rangers so far, yet both highs and lows with 1 win, 0 draws and 1 defeat.

Rangers's previous fixture was a Europa League game also played at their home, finishing 1-0 versus Real Betis. The home side hope to to continue in that form. The goalie Butland was named most valuable player of the team in that game, scoring 7.85 out of ten. Butland topped it up with a clean sheet.

A strong away win before that one, visiting St. Johnstone and winning 2-0.

One fact: This team have finished 5 league rounds in a row with only one (or none) club finding the net.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Rangers as they have a new game in only three days, a League Cup match thankfully also at home. Livingston are visiting.

Early season league goal statistics from Rangers's 2 home games: {4 goals}, 1 conceded.

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Motherwell form and stats

Four points from two away games for Motherwell, meaning one draw and one victory in the Premiership so far.

Motherwell failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs St. Mirren (placed 2nd) that ended with defeat 0-1. That loss was their first after four consecutive league rounds winning points. Spittal, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.25. Spittal hit four key passes.

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Hearts at their stadium, the result 1-0.

With the host team identified as having a victory chance of around 80% by the bookies, any positive result for the away team would be an eye-opener. Researching earlier games with similar odds and Motherwell as the away team, we found 5 results. The data from these were 0 away wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats. The outsiders lost 2 of these fixtures by a margin of at least two goals.

As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Motherwell has managed {2 goals} and let in 1 from 2 matches.

Head 2 Head

The 4 most recent games involving these two teams have all ended as Rangers victories. Another one?

Top Goalscorers

RangersD. Pereira da Silva
D. Pereira da Silva
2 goals
RangersJ. Tavernier
J. Tavernier
1 goals
RangersK. Roofe
K. Roofe
1 goals

Rangers missing players

Motherwell missing players

Rangers Motherwell
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
5 2 1 Played P 0 2 5
3 1 0 Won W 0 1 3
0 0 0 Drew D 0 1 1
2 1 1 Lost L 0 0 1
8 4 0 Scored S 0 2 6
2 1 1 Conceded C 0 1 4
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
60% 50% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 50% 60%
20% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 40%
20% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 60%
60% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 50% 20%
40% 50% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 20%
 
6.4 5.5 6 Corners for (avg) C F 0 8.5 6.2
3 3 2 Corners against (avg) C A 0 11.5 6.8
1 1 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 3 2.6
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
20.2 19.5 17 Shots (avg) S ( 0 10.5 12.8
6.2 6 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 3.5 4.8
26% 33% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 29% 25%
 
6.8 6.5 7 Shots against (avg) S A 0 17.5 12
2.6 3.5 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 1.5 2
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Motherwell have not yet lost a game away.
  • Motherwell have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Motherwell have the most points from losing position (3) in Premiership
  • Motherwell have won significantly more corners away than at home.
  • Motherwell haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Rangers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Rangers have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • 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 5 4 1 0 11 3 3 2 1 0 7 2 2 2 0 0 4 1 8 13
2 St. Mirren 5 3 2 0 9 6 2 1 1 0 4 3 3 2 1 0 5 3 3 11
3 Motherwell 5 3 1 1 6 4 3 2 0 1 4 3 2 1 1 0 2 1 2 10
4 Rangers 5 3 0 2 8 2 2 1 0 1 4 1 3 2 0 1 4 1 6 9
5 Hearts 5 2 1 2 4 2 3 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 0 1 2 1 2 7
6 Ross County 5 2 1 2 6 7 3 1 1 1 3 3 2 1 0 1 3 4 -1 7
7 Livingston 5 1 3 1 5 8 2 0 2 0 1 1 3 1 1 1 4 7 -3 6
8 Kilmarnock 5 1 2 2 4 5 3 1 1 1 3 3 2 0 1 1 1 2 -1 5
9 Dundee 5 1 2 2 5 8 2 1 1 0 2 1 3 0 1 2 3 7 -3 5
10 Hibernian 5 1 1 3 9 10 2 0 0 2 4 6 3 1 1 1 5 4 -1 4
11 Aberdeen 5 0 2 3 3 9 2 0 0 2 1 5 3 0 2 1 2 4 -6 2
12 St. Johnstone 5 0 2 3 2 8 3 0 1 2 2 6 2 0 1 1 0 2 -6 2

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.