Kilmarnock will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 18 points behind Rangers.
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Europa League.
Rangers play their home games on grass, while this game is played on artifical turf. Recent stats for Rangers when playing on artifical turf are 6 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats from ten matches. They have scored 26 goals and conceded 9 times in these games.
Kilmarnock form and stats
Kilmarnock have collected 7 points from their Premiership home games so far after 2-1-2.
The Kilmarnock crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to Hibernian here at Rugby Park in a Premiership match. Before that match, a win away at Livingston.
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 Kilmarnock had similar winning odds as today, and found two games. In these, the hosts won zero, drew one and lost one. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Kilmarnock lost one similar game by at least two goals.
Kilmarnock have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Rugby Park with 8 goals in 5 league matches. Kilmarnock have conceded 5 in these home matches.
Rangers form and stats
Rangers's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Rangers, who have the fewest conceded goals (3) in Premiership, collect 14 points from their 6 away matches in the Premiership. 4 victories and 2 draws have created these points (and only 0 defeats). The visitors have performed well in their home games as well, building a total win streak of four games home and away. Rangers hope to make it five in this match. Momentum is building for Rangers in their away games, having won their two previous outings.
Rangers have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Allan McGregor. It's been 273 minutes since they last conceded in Premiership.
Rangers had fun at their own home (Rugby Park) last time out, beating Lech Poznan 1-0. Alfredo Morelos scored. A home win before that, celebrating 2-0 vs Livingston.
Alfredo Morelos came off the bench to score the winning goal in the match against Lech Poznan last time out, making the manager S. Gerrard feel like a tactical genius.
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 14 wins (twelve by two or more goals winning margin), two draws and zero surprising defeats.
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Europa League trip to Benfica.
Rangers have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 12 goals from 6 away matches. Rangers are tighter than a frog's bottom, as only 3 away goals have been conceded so far.
Head 2 Head
The two sides played each other earlier this season: Rangers - Kilmarnock 2-0. Kilmarnock-Rangers H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Kilmarnock three wins, Rangers four wins, three draws. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Kilmarnock missing players
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| Kilmarnock | Rangers | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 12 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | 8 | 1 | Scored | S | 5 | 12 | 28 |
| 13 | 5 | 2 | Conceded | C | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 83% | 92% |
| 73% | 80% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 83% |
| 55% | 60% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 33% | 42% |
| 27% | 20% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 33% | 25% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 100% | 17% | 8% |
| 55% | 60% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 33% | 17% |
| 18% | 20% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 67% | 83% |
| 27% | 20% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 8% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.3 | 1.8 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 0.8 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 91 | 50 | 10 | Total Shots | T S | 15 | 99 | 210 |
| 33 | 20 | 1 | Shots on Target | S O | 9 | 31 | 75 |
| 45% | 40% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 56% | 39% | 37% |
- Kilmarnock have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Kilmarnock haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Rangers has the fewest conceded goals (3) in Premiership
- Rangers has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in Premiership
- Rangers has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Premiership
- Rangers has the most clean sheets (10) in Premiership
- Rangers has the most scored goals in the first half (16) in Premiership
- Rangers has the the best goal difference (+25) 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 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 25 | 32 |
| 2 | Celtic | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 18 | 26 |
| 3 | Hibernian | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 24 |
| 4 | Aberdeen | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 23 |
| 5 | Kilmarnock | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 14 |
| 6 | Dundee United | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | -8 | 13 |
| 7 | Ross County | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | -13 | 12 |
| 8 | Motherwell | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -2 | 11 |
| 9 | Livingston | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | -7 | 11 |
| 10 | St. Johnstone | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -7 | 11 |
| 11 | St. Mirren | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | -9 | 7 |
| 12 | Hamilton Academical | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 13 | 25 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 15 | -12 | 7 |