Struggling Hamilton Academical will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Rangers in the upcoming league round. It's 10th vs 2nd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artificial turf and that the visiting Rangers have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artificial turf is 5-1-3 (win-draw-loss) from nine matches.
Hamilton Academical form and stats
Hamilton Academical have played 7 Premiership games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-2-3 (wins-draws-losses).
The home team returns to New Douglas Park after sharing the points with Kilmarnock (placed 5th) on their last time out; the Premiership game ended 2-2. Preceding that game was the home draw versus Ross County that ended 2-2.
A case of two points dropped for Hamilton Academical in the Kilmarnock match as a lead 2-0 was lost and what looked like a victory ended in a draw.
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 four games. In these, the hosts won 0, drew 0 and lost 4. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Hamilton Academical lost 2 similar games by at least two goals.
The Hamilton Academical fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 8 in 7 matches. Hamilton Academical have conceded 9 in these home matches.
Rangers form and stats
The away performances of Rangers, who have the most points (16) away in Premiership, have been very solid so far with 5 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats in the Premiership. The question is whether this happy travelling can continue. Momentum is building for Rangers in their away games, having won their two previous outings.
Rangers play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-0 victory visiting Livingston (placed 7th). Prior to that match, a home win 2-0 against Porto in the Europa League.
As mentioned earlier, Rangers will not be satisfied unless they get maximum points from this game. Performing as huge favourites away from home has earlier resulted in 8 wins (7 by two or more goals winning margin), 1 draw and 0 surprising defeats.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Rangers manager S. Gerrard as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Feyenoord.
The Rangers manager S. Gerrard has got the team scoring on the road, with 14 away goals in 6 league matches. Rangers are tight as a drum on their travels, having allowed the opposition only 2 goals away.
Head 2 Head
The two sides played each other earlier this season: Rangers - Hamilton Academical 5-0. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 1 Hamilton Academical victory, 0 draws and 9 Rangers wins. 8 of these games ended with three goals or more, 2 matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
 
J. Defoe
10 goals
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A. Morelos
9 goals
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G. Oakley
4 goals
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Hamilton Academical missing players
Rangers missing players
| Hamilton Academical | Rangers | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs
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Statistics | Stat | vs
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Away | Total |
| 13 | 7 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 6 | 12 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | 3 | 3 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | 8 | 1 | Scored | S | 6 | 14 | 35 |
| 24 | 9 | 5 | Conceded | C | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 92% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 77% | 71% | 33% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 83% | 92% |
| 62% | 43% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 50% | 67% |
| 46% | 29% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 33% | 50% |
| 15% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 54% | 57% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 33% | 42% |
| 15% | 14% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 67% | 50% |
| 38% | 29% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 4 | 3.6 | 2 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 7.3 | 4.8 | 6.7 |
| 8.9 | 9 | 8.7 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 2.3 | 1.5 | 1.7 |
| 1.5 | 1.1 | 1 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.3 | 0.9 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
- Hamilton Academical have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- Hamilton Academical haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Rangers have not yet lost a game away.
- Rangers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Rangers have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Rangers have scored more than double the goals of Hamilton Academical.
- Rangers have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Rangers have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- 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 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 36 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 29 | 31 |
| 2 | Rangers | 12 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 28 | 31 |
| 3 | Aberdeen | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 24 |
| 4 | Motherwell | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 20 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 22 |
| 5 | Kilmarnock | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | -3 | 18 |
| 6 | Ross County | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 28 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 14 | -13 | 14 |
| 7 | Livingston | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 14 | -3 | 13 |
| 8 | Hibernian | 12 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 23 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 14 | -7 | 12 |
| 9 | Hearts | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -2 | 11 |
| 10 | Hamilton Academical | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 24 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 15 | -10 | 11 |
| 11 | St. Johnstone | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 28 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | -16 | 10 |
| 12 | St. Mirren | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 15 | -9 | 8 |