Dundee United not looking forward to difficult Premiership clash against Rangers

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sun 08.January
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Tannadice Park (14223 seats)

The visiting Rangers team are probably front runners at Dundee United, as the away team hold a 27 point edge from their 20 league games this season.

Insights:
  • Dundee United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Rangers have the most points from losing position (15) in Premiership

Dundee United and Rangers should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Dundee United form and stats

All-inclusive Premiership stats playing at home this season for Dundee United are 4-1-5 (wins-draws-losses).

Nothing to worry about in defence for Dundee, as their goalkeeper Mark Birighitti has completely shut out the opponents for 180 minutes in the Premiership.

It's back home for Dundee United, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating St. Johnstone away with the result 1-0. Watt found the net in that victory. The goalie Birighitti was named most valuable player of the team in that game, scoring 7.64 out of ten. Birighitti topped it up with a clean sheet.

Before that, Dundee United had a home game versus Ross County which ended with a victory 3-0.

No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Dundee had similar winning odds as today, and found 9 games. In these, the hosts won 2, drew 3 and lost 4. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Dundee United lost 3 similar games by at least two goals.

A decent goal production from Dundee United in their home games so far, with 15 goals from 10 league matches. It's worth mentioning that 9 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Dundee United defense is not exactly impregnable. 18 goals conceded from 10 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches. When Dundee United hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Kilmarnock, Motherwell and Ross County), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 3 of 3 times.

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Rangers form and stats

5-2-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Rangers in their Premiership matches away. Winning streaks in away matches are not that common, but Rangers are close to a proper streak after winning their two previous away games.

Rangers's last game was the home draw against Celtic (2-2). Defender Tavernier was the best team player with a rating of 7.64. Tavernier scored one goal, hit four key passes and won 7 of 11 duels.

Prior to that match, a home win 3-0 against Motherwell.

Observe that 14 of this club's 18 most recent league rounds have ended with three or more goals.

The travelling fans enjoy Rangers's attacking play in away games, having scored 16 goals in 9 league matches away. 13 goals have been conceded by Rangers in these games.

Head 2 Head

Rangers have won at least one point in the last 4 fixtures (3-1-0) facing Dundee.

The squads have met each other before in this season, with the match result Rangers - Dundee United 2-1 written in the official records.

Top Goalscorers

RangersA. Čolak
A. Čolak
11 goals
RangersJ. Tavernier
J. Tavernier
7 goals
RangersJ. Lundstram
J. Lundstram
5 goals

Dundee United missing players

Rangers missing players

Dundee United Rangers
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
19 10 3 Played P 2 9 20
5 4 1 Won W 2 5 14
4 1 1 Drew D 0 2 4
10 5 1 Lost L 0 2 2
23 15 6 Scored S 3 16 46
33 18 11 Conceded C 1 13 20
95% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
68% 70% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 89% 90%
58% 70% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 78% 75%
32% 40% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 44% 50%
16% 10% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 11% 15%
42% 20% 33% BTTS BTTS 50% 67% 55%
32% 40% 33% Clean Sheets C S 50% 22% 40%
32% 40% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 11% 5%
 
5.1 5.8 4.3 Corners for (avg) C F 3.5 6.6 7.6
5.1 5.3 7 Corners against (avg) C A 1.5 2.8 3.2
1.9 2.4 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.4 1.9
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
10.2 11.4 10.7 Shots (avg) S ( 11.5 13.8 17.9
3.4 4.1 4.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 4.9 6
35% 37% 43% Goal Efficiency G E 30% 36% 38%
 
14.6 14.5 19.7 Shots against (avg) S A 5.5 7.8 7.2
4.6 4 5.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 1.5 2.7 2.4
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Dundee United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Dundee United haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • 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 the fewest conceded goals in the second half (9) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most points from losing position (15) 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 20 18 1 1 63 17 9 9 0 0 28 7 11 9 1 1 35 10 46 55
2 Rangers 20 14 4 2 46 20 11 9 2 0 30 7 9 5 2 2 16 13 26 46
3 Hearts 19 9 4 6 35 30 9 6 1 2 22 16 10 3 3 4 13 14 5 31
4 Aberdeen 20 8 2 10 33 32 10 6 1 3 24 10 10 2 1 7 9 22 1 26
5 St. Mirren 18 7 5 6 21 25 10 6 3 1 14 7 8 1 2 5 7 18 -4 26
6 Livingston 19 7 4 8 18 28 10 5 2 3 10 10 9 2 2 5 8 18 -10 25
7 St. Johnstone 20 7 3 10 24 30 10 3 2 5 10 10 10 4 1 5 14 20 -6 24
8 Hibernian 20 7 2 11 24 33 10 5 2 3 16 12 10 2 0 8 8 21 -9 23
9 Kilmarnock 20 5 5 10 17 33 10 5 3 2 13 14 10 0 2 8 4 19 -16 20
10 Motherwell 19 5 4 10 23 28 8 1 2 5 7 13 11 4 2 5 16 15 -5 19
11 Dundee United 19 5 4 10 23 33 10 4 1 5 15 18 9 1 3 5 8 15 -10 19
12 Ross County 20 4 4 12 14 32 10 2 2 6 9 19 10 2 2 6 5 13 -18 16

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.