The visiting Rangers side should be favourites in this visit to Hamilton Academical, as the away team holds a 56 point advantage from their 27 league games this season.
- Hamilton Academical has the fewest scored goals in the first half (8) in Premiership
- Rangers has the most scored goals (67) in Premiership
It's no vacation for neither Academical nor Rangers as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Academical's stadium, Bermuda National Stadium, has a artifical turf surface. Rangers have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Rangers when playing on artifical turf; 7 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses from nine matches. They have scored 25 goals in these games and conceded 7.
Hamilton Academical form and stats
Hamilton Academical's struggle is real here at Bermuda National Stadium with only 9 points collected from 13 Premiership games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-3-8.
The Academical crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-2 to Ross County here at Bermuda National Stadium in a Premiership match. Heartbreak before that as Academical lost 0-2 at Celtic's place.
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 Hamilton Academical had similar winning odds as today, and found seven games. In these, the hosts won zero, drew zero and lost seven. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Hamilton Academical lost six similar games by at least two goals.
There will be little rest for Academical after this match as they are travelling to Livingston for a Premiership game in only three days.
Academical aren't scoring a lot here at Bermuda National Stadium in the league, with only 10 goals from 13 games. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Academical defense is not exactly impregnable. 22 goals conceded from 13 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 3 home matches.
Rangers form and stats
The strength of Rangers, who have the most scored goals (67) in Premiership, on their travels this season is incredible with 36 points collected from 14 Premiership away games. Rangers has 11-3-0 on the road, with 28 goals scored and 6 conceded.
339 minutes! That's how long the Rangers goalkeeper Allan McGregor and his defense have shut out their league opponents.
Rangers had fun at their own home (Bermuda National Stadium) last time out, beating St. Johnstone 1-0. Ianis Hagi scored. Ahead of that match was the victory versus Hibernian at their stadium, the result 1-0.
As mentioned earlier, Rangers will not be satisfied unless they get a comfortable victory in this game. Performing as huge favourites away from home has earlier resulted in 18 wins (14 by two or more goals winning margin), three draws and one surprising defeat.
Rangers have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 28 goals from 14 away matches. Rangers's manager S. Gerrard has created a great defensive setup working very nicely in away games with only 6 conceded goals. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Rangers - Academical 8-0 entered in the official records. Last ten meetings between the teams: Academical won one, Rangers won nine and zero draws. seven games with over 2,5 goals, three matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Tavernier 11 goals |  K. Roofe 10 goals |  A. Morelos Aviléz 7 goals |
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| Hamilton Academical | Rangers | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 25 | 13 | 3 | Played | P | 4 | 14 | 27 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 11 | 24 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 16 | 8 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | 10 | 1 | Scored | S | 11 | 28 | 67 |
| 51 | 22 | 8 | Conceded | C | 2 | 6 | 7 |
| 92% | 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 93% | 96% |
| 76% | 69% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 71% | 74% |
| 48% | 38% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 43% | 48% |
| 24% | 15% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 21% | 30% |
| 20% | 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 7% | 11% |
| 40% | 31% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 36% | 22% |
| 24% | 23% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 64% | 78% |
| 44% | 54% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 7% | 4% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.7 | 1.7 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 0.9 | 0.8 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7.6 | 7.5 | 3.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 16.8 | 15.8 | 16.4 |
| 2.7 | 3.1 | 1.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.8 | 5.1 | 5.9 |
| 32% | 25% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 48% | 39% | 42% |
- Hamilton Academical has the fewest points (9) at home in Premiership
- Hamilton Academical has the fewest scored goals in the first half (8) in Premiership
- Hamilton Academical has the most conceded goals in the first half (26) in Premiership
- Hamilton Academical have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Rangers has the fewest conceded goals (6) away in Premiership
- Rangers has the fewest conceded goals (7) in Premiership
- Rangers has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4) in Premiership
- Rangers has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (3) in Premiership
- Rangers has the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in Premiership
- Rangers has the most clean sheets (20) in Premiership
- Rangers has the most clean sheets (9) away in Premiership
- Rangers has the most points (36) away in Premiership
- Rangers has the most scored goals (67) in Premiership
- Rangers has the most scored goals in the first half (35) in Premiership
- Rangers has the the best goal difference (+22) away in Premiership
- Rangers has the the best goal difference (+60) in Premiership
- Rangers have not yet lost a game.
- Rangers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Rangers have scored more than double the goals of Hamilton Academical.
- Rangers is in the best form (5-1-0)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Rangers | 27 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 67 | 7 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 1 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 28 | 6 | 60 | 75 |
| 2 | Celtic | 25 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 55 | 20 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 26 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 29 | 11 | 35 | 52 |
| 3 | Hibernian | 27 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 37 | 26 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 17 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 9 | 11 | 46 |
| 4 | Aberdeen | 26 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 31 | 26 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 44 |
| 5 | Livingston | 26 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 34 | 29 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 14 | 5 | 39 |
| 6 | St. Mirren | 24 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 24 | 28 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 13 | -4 | 29 |
| 7 | Dundee United | 27 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 21 | 38 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 20 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 18 | -17 | 28 |
| 8 | St. Johnstone | 27 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 25 | 36 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 20 | 25 | -11 | 27 |
| 9 | Motherwell | 25 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 23 | 37 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 21 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 16 | -14 | 25 |
| 10 | Kilmarnock | 26 | 7 | 3 | 16 | 26 | 37 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 17 | 19 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 18 | -11 | 24 |
| 11 | Ross County | 27 | 6 | 5 | 16 | 21 | 51 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 25 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 26 | -30 | 23 |
| 12 | Hamilton Academical | 25 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 22 | 51 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 22 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 29 | -29 | 19 |
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