St. Mirren v Rangers preview: Visitors can prove cut above

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sun 08.Oct
Match begins: 11:00 (UTC)
Venue: The Smisa Stadium

Premiership: A pair of participants who have performed well thus far. Get ready for St. Mirren - Rangers with this thorough guide!

Insights:
  • St. Mirren have not yet lost a game.
  • Rangers have the fewest conceded goals (1) away in Premiership

Rangers could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Europa League game only three sleeps ago. That game was also an away game, at Aris. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.

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St. Mirren form and stats

St. Mirren have collected seven points from their first three Premiership games here at The Smisa Stadium, a promising start.

St. Mirren drew their last game, 1-1 away at Kilmarnock (placed 8th). Defender Fraser got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.34/10. Fraser won 5 of 7 duels.

Before that game, a defeat in the away fixture against Hibernian in the League Cup.

A decent goal production from St. Mirren in their home games so far, with 5 goals from 3 league matches.

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Rangers form and stats

Rangers have six points from their first three away games in the Premiership, meaning two victories and a loss.

Two away games in a row for Rangers, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-2 versus Aris in the Europa League. Lundstram got a match rating of 7.4 in that game, top player of the team. Lundstram served one assist, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 68 successful passes (of 83 total).

Preceding that, the 1-3 home loss versus Aberdeen.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Rangers have scored 4 goals in 3 league games away. The Rangers defense is a tough nut to crack, having conceded less than half a goal per away game on average ({1 goals} in 3 games).

Head 2 Head

Rangers have managed a streak of 9 consecutive matches without losing (8-1-0) when playing Mirren.

Top Goalscorers

RangersA. Sima
A. Sima
2 goals
RangersD. Pereira da Silva
D. Pereira da Silva
2 goals
St. MirrenG. Kiltie
G. Kiltie
1 goals

St. Mirren missing players

Rangers missing players

St. Mirren Rangers
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
7 3 1 Played P 0 3 7
4 2 1 Won W 0 2 4
3 1 0 Drew D 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost L 0 1 3
11 5 1 Scored S 0 4 10
7 3 0 Conceded C 0 1 5
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
71% 67% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 67% 57%
43% 67% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 29%
29% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 29%
14% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
71% 67% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 14%
29% 33% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 67% 57%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 29%
 
4.3 4 4 Corners for (avg) C F 0 7 5.6
5.3 4.7 8 Corners against (avg) C A 0 3 3.6
2.4 2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1 1.6
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
10.6 13.7 13 Shots (avg) S ( 0 20.7 19.4
3.9 4.3 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 6.3 6.1
41% 38% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 21% 23%
 
11.6 7.3 11 Shots against (avg) S A 0 7 8.1
3.9 3 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 2 3.3
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Rangers have the fewest conceded goals (1) away in Premiership
  • Rangers have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded away.
  • Rangers have won significantly more corners away than at home.
  • Rangers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • St. Mirren have not yet lost a game.
  • St. Mirren have scored in all their matches so far.
  • St. Mirren 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 7 6 1 0 16 4 3 2 1 0 7 2 4 4 0 0 9 2 12 19
2 St. Mirren 7 4 3 0 11 7 3 2 1 0 5 3 4 2 2 0 6 4 4 15
3 Rangers 7 4 0 3 10 5 4 2 0 2 6 4 3 2 0 1 4 1 5 12
4 Hearts 7 3 1 3 5 3 3 1 1 1 2 1 4 2 0 2 3 2 2 10
5 Motherwell 7 3 1 3 7 7 4 2 0 2 5 5 3 1 1 1 2 2 0 10
6 Hibernian 7 2 2 3 11 10 4 1 1 2 6 6 3 1 1 1 5 4 1 8
7 Aberdeen 7 2 2 3 10 10 3 1 0 2 5 5 4 1 2 1 5 5 0 8
8 Kilmarnock 7 1 4 2 7 8 4 1 2 1 4 4 3 0 2 1 3 4 -1 7
9 Dundee 7 1 4 2 7 10 3 1 2 0 4 3 4 0 2 2 3 7 -3 7
10 Livingston 7 1 4 2 6 12 3 0 2 1 1 4 4 1 2 1 5 8 -6 7
11 Ross County 7 2 1 4 6 12 4 1 1 2 3 4 3 1 0 2 3 8 -6 7
12 St. Johnstone 7 0 3 4 3 11 4 0 2 2 3 7 3 0 1 2 0 4 -8 3

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.