Football betting preview: Dundee with moderate expectations before welcoming Rangers

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sun 20.March
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Kilmac Stadium at Dens Park (11506 seats)

The guesting Rangers side should be odds-on at Dundee, as the away team have a 47 point supremacy from their 30 league games this season.

Insights:
  • Dundee have the most conceded goals (51) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most points from losing position (18) in Premiership

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Europa League. That game, against Crvena Zvezda, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Rangers.

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Dundee form and stats

Dundee's struggle is real here at Kilmac Stadium at Dens Park with only 14 points collected from 15 Premiership games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 3-5-7.

Dundee's previous match was also a home event, the loss 0-3 against Rangers (in Scottish Cup).

Before that game, the home loss against St. Mirren with the scoreline 0-1.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Dundee here at Kilmac Stadium at Dens Park in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (13 from 15 games). It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Dundee have conceded 23 from these games.

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Rangers form and stats

The away team have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 9 wins, 3 draws and only 2 losses in the Premiership.

The Rangers goalkeeper Allan McGregor is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 194 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

Two away matches in a row for Rangers, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-2 vs Crvena Zvezda in the Europa League.

hometeam won Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with Rangers given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed 16 matches with eleven wins as expected, three draws and two surprise home wins. The favourites won seven of these games by at least two goals.

Rangers has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 27 goals from 14 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. 15 goals have been conceded by Rangers in these games.

Head 2 Head

The teams involved faced each other previously this match year: Rangers - Dundee 3-0. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Dundee victories, one draw and seven Rangers wins. Over/under statistics; eight of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

RangersA. Morelos Aviléz
A. Morelos Aviléz
12 goals
RangersJ. Aribo
J. Aribo
7 goals
RangersK. Roofe
K. Roofe
7 goals

Dundee missing players

Rangers missing players

Dundee Rangers
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
30 15 4 Played P 4 14 30
5 3 0 Won W 3 9 21
8 5 2 Drew D 1 3 7
17 7 2 Lost L 0 2 2
24 13 4 Scored S 6 27 60
51 23 7 Conceded C 3 15 24
87% 80% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
60% 53% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 71% 73%
50% 53% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 50% 47%
30% 33% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 29% 27%
17% 13% 25% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 21% 17%
40% 33% 50% BTTS BTTS 75% 57% 47%
23% 33% 25% Clean Sheets C S 25% 29% 47%
50% 53% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 14% 7%
 
4.6 5.5 3 Corners for (avg) C F 4.8 6.9 8
6.8 7.1 9 Corners against (avg) C A 4.5 5.1 3.8
2.3 2.3 4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.8 2 1.7
4 2 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
9.3 10.6 6 Shots (avg) S ( 12.2 17.1 19.5
3.2 3.9 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.5 5.7 6.5
25% 22% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 34% 31%
 
14.6 13.9 15.8 Shots against (avg) S A 7 7.6 6.4
5 4.1 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 1.8 3.4 2.6
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Dundee have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Dundee have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Dundee have the most conceded goals (51) in Premiership
  • Dundee have the most conceded goals in the first half (27) in Premiership
  • Dundee have the most conceded goals in the second half (24) in Premiership
  • Dundee have the the worst goal difference (-10) at home in Premiership
  • Dundee have the the worst goal difference (-27) in Premiership
  • Rangers have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Rangers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Rangers have scored more than double the goals of Dundee.
  • Rangers have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (10) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most points from losing position (18) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most scored goals in the second half (32) in Premiership
  • 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 30 23 4 3 65 18 14 12 2 0 33 4 16 11 2 3 32 14 47 73
2 Rangers 30 21 7 2 60 24 16 12 4 0 33 9 14 9 3 2 27 15 36 70
3 Hearts 30 14 8 8 42 31 15 9 3 3 26 12 15 5 5 5 16 19 11 50
4 Hibernian 30 9 10 11 28 30 16 6 5 5 16 14 14 3 5 6 12 16 -2 37
5 Livingston 30 10 7 13 33 38 15 5 3 7 16 19 15 5 4 6 17 19 -5 37
6 Ross County 30 9 9 12 43 47 15 5 6 4 26 24 15 4 3 8 17 23 -4 36
7 Dundee United 30 9 9 12 26 33 15 7 2 6 15 17 15 2 7 6 11 16 -7 36
8 Motherwell 30 9 9 12 31 44 16 7 4 5 19 22 14 2 5 7 12 22 -13 36
9 St. Mirren 30 8 12 10 27 40 14 3 7 4 11 13 16 5 5 6 16 27 -13 36
10 Aberdeen 30 8 8 14 33 38 14 6 4 4 20 15 16 2 4 10 13 23 -5 32
11 St. Johnstone 30 5 9 16 18 36 15 2 5 8 11 19 15 3 4 8 7 17 -18 24
12 Dundee 30 5 8 17 24 51 15 3 5 7 13 23 15 2 3 10 11 28 -27 23

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.