Betting prediction and preview: Rangers fancied to be better team when visiting Hibernian

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Wed 27.January
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Easter Road Stadium (20421 seats)

A key match in Premiership as both teams are battling for the top positions. With Hibernian in 4th position and Rangers placed 1st, this promises to be an exciting meeting. Read on to find out more!

Insights:
  • Hibernian have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Rangers has the most scored goals (65) in Premiership

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Hibernian form and stats

4 victories, 5 draws and 3 defeats. That’s what Hibernian have to build on here at Easter Road Stadium in the Premiership.

In their previous game, the manager J. Ross led his Hibernian to a defeat in the League Cup match away at St. Johnstone. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Easter Road Stadium. Before that, Hibernian had a Premiership home game versus Kilmarnock which ended with a victory 2-0.

The manager J. Ross will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Queen of the South in only two days.

Hibernian has scored 15 league goals at home this season, in 12 matches. Hibernian have conceded 16 in these home matches.

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Rangers form and stats

The away performances of Rangers, who have the most scored goals (65) in Premiership, have been very solid so far with 10 wins, 3 draws and 0 defeats in the Premiership. The question is whether this happy travelling can continue.

Rangers had fun at their own home (Easter Road Stadium) last time out, beating Ross County 5-0. Joe Aribo, Ryan Jack, Filip Helander, Ryan Kent and Connor Goldson scored. A 1-1 draw at Motherwell's stadium before that.

As you can tell from the results above, Rangers was very dominant against Ross County, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 5-0 (!) with Joe Aribo, Ryan Jack, Filip Helander, Ryan Kent and Connor Goldson providing the goals.

A new game in only two days for Rangers, the Scottish Cup home match versus Cove Rangers. Busy days.

With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Rangers are regular goalscorers on their travels. Rangers are tighter than a frog's bottom, as only 6 away goals have been conceded so far.

Head 2 Head

The last H2H meeting was Rangers - Hibernian 1-0, played this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's zero Hibernian victories, five draws and five Rangers wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

HibernianK. Nisbet
K. Nisbet
11 goals
RangersJ. Tavernier
J. Tavernier
11 goals
RangersK. Roofe
K. Roofe
10 goals

Hibernian missing players

Rangers missing players

Hibernian Rangers
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
24 12 2 Played P 3 13 25
11 4 0 Won W 3 10 22
7 5 1 Drew D 0 3 3
6 3 1 Lost L 0 0 0
33 15 2 Scored S 5 27 65
24 16 3 Conceded C 1 6 7
92% 92% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 92% 96%
67% 75% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 77% 80%
46% 50% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 46% 52%
25% 33% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 23% 32%
8% 8% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 8% 12%
33% 50% 50% BTTS BTTS 33% 38% 24%
42% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 67% 62% 76%
33% 33% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 8% 4%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.5 1.5 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1 0.8
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11.4 10.2 10.5 Shots (avg) S ( 13 15.9 16.8
3.9 4.1 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.3 5.2 6.1
35% 31% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 31% 40% 43%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Hibernian have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • 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 (19) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most clean sheets (8) away in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most points (33) away in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most scored goals (27) away in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most scored goals (65) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most scored goals in the first half (35) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most scored goals in the second half (30) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the the best goal difference (+21) away in Premiership
  • Rangers has the the best goal difference (+58) in Premiership
  • Rangers have not yet lost a game.
  • Rangers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • 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 25 22 3 0 65 7 12 12 0 0 38 1 13 10 3 0 27 6 58 69
2 Celtic 22 13 7 2 48 18 11 7 3 1 23 7 11 6 4 1 25 11 30 46
3 Aberdeen 23 12 6 5 31 24 13 8 2 3 21 14 10 4 4 2 10 10 7 42
4 Hibernian 24 11 7 6 33 24 12 4 5 3 15 16 12 7 2 3 18 8 9 40
5 Livingston 23 9 5 9 30 29 11 4 2 5 13 15 12 5 3 4 17 14 1 32
6 Dundee United 24 6 10 8 19 29 12 4 4 4 14 13 12 2 6 4 5 16 -10 28
7 Kilmarnock 23 7 3 13 24 28 11 4 2 5 15 12 12 3 1 8 9 16 -4 24
8 St. Mirren 21 6 5 10 16 24 10 2 4 4 8 13 11 4 1 6 8 11 -8 23
9 St. Johnstone 24 5 8 11 22 33 12 3 3 6 5 11 12 2 5 5 17 22 -11 23
10 Ross County 25 5 5 15 18 48 12 2 4 6 10 23 13 3 1 9 8 25 -30 20
11 Motherwell 23 4 7 12 19 35 12 2 3 7 10 20 11 2 4 5 9 15 -16 19
12 Hamilton Academical 23 5 4 14 21 47 12 2 3 7 9 20 11 3 1 7 12 27 -26 19

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.