After four games we know a little more about the qualities of Hamilton Academical and Rangers in this fresh Premiership season. Read our match preview!
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 artifical 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 artifical turf is 5-1-4 (win-draw-loss) from ten matches.
Hamilton Academical form and stats
Hamilton Academical are yet to win a home game, having collected 0 points from their first two Premiership games here at Bermuda National Stadium. Academical are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at Bermuda National Stadium, having lost their two previous games here.
Academical enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Motherwell's place. The match ended 1-0 with Hakeem Odofin scoring. Ahead of that match, Hamilton Academical lost 0-1 at home to St. Mirren.
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 six games. In these, the hosts won zero, drew zero and lost six. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Academical lost four similar games by at least two goals.
Hamilton Academical has scored 0 goals so far and conceded 2 goals from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.
Rangers form and stats
Rangers are still undefeated on their travels in the Premiership. They have only played two games though, winning one and drawing the other.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Rangers goalkeeper Jon McLaughlin is eager to challenge this, with his 574 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
Kemar Roofe and Ryan Kent scored in Rangers's previous match, the home game against Kilmarnock that ended 2-0. Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Livingston.
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 eleven wins (nine by two or more goals winning margin), two draws and zero surprising defeats.
It's early days yet, but Rangers has scored 1 and conceded 0 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: two - zero - eight (Academical wins - draws - Rangers wins). As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. Kent 3 goals |  A. Morelos Aviléz 2 goals |   S. Martin 1 goals |
Hamilton Academical missing players
Rangers missing players
| Hamilton Academical | Rangers | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| 7 | 2 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 50% | 80% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 60% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 40% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 100% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 50% | 20% |
| 6 | 5.5 | 9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 9 | 7.5 | 8.8 |
| 8.2 | 4.5 | 1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 1 | 1.4 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | 22 | 9 | Total Shots | T S | 20 | 34 | 97 |
| 11 | 8 | 4 | Shots on Target | S O | 2 | 5 | 29 |
| 18% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 20% | 31% |
- Rangers has the fewest conceded goals (0)
- Rangers has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (0)
- Rangers has the most clean sheets (5)
- Rangers has the most scored goals (9)
- Rangers has the most scored goals in the second half (5)
- Rangers has the the best goal difference (+9)
| Hamilton Academical | Last season | Rangers | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 30 | 16 | Played | P | 15 | 29 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Won | W | 10 | 21 | ||
| 9 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 4 | ||
| 15 | 9 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | ||
| 30 | 16 | Scored | S | 31 | 64 | ||
| 50 | 26 | Conceded | C | 12 | 19 | ||
| 90% | 94% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 97% | ||
| 67% | 62% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 87% | 76% | ||
| 57% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 59% | ||
| 37% | 38% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 34% | ||
| 13% | 12% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | ||
| 57% | 56% | BTTS | BTTS | 53% | 41% | ||
| 20% | 19% | Clean Sheets | C S | 47% | 52% | ||
| 33% | 31% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 10% | ||
| 3.7 | 3.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.9 | 8 | ||
| 8.2 | 8.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.4 | 2.8 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.2 | ||
| 9 | 6 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 3 | ||
| 212 | 112 | Total Shots | T S | 238 | 481 | ||
| 71 | 34 | Shots on Target | S O | 95 | 194 | ||
| 42% | 47% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 33% | ||
| 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 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 13 |
| 2 | Hibernian | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 3 | Ross County | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 4 | Celtic | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 |
| 5 | Dundee United | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 6 | St. Mirren | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -1 | 7 |
| 7 | Aberdeen | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 8 | St. Johnstone | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -4 | 4 |
| 9 | Hamilton Academical | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | -5 | 3 |
| 10 | Motherwell | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -3 | 2 |
| 11 | Kilmarnock | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -4 | 2 |
| 12 | Livingston | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -5 | 2 |
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