Football betting preview: Livingston with moderate expectations before welcoming Rangers

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Wed 03.March
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Tony Macaroni Arena (8716 seats)

This could be an interesting match as Livingston have their presumed home advantage while Rangers are ahead 42 points in the Premiership table.

Insights:
  • Livingston have the most matches over the total-line (16) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most scored goals (73) in Premiership

Livingston have less rest than Rangers in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a League Cup game only three days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus St. Johnstone, was also a home game here at Tony Macaroni Arena. The away team is better rested.

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Livingston form and stats

Livingston have collected 18 points from their Premiership home games so far after 5-3-6.

The Livingston crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to St. Johnstone here at Tony Macaroni Arena in a League Cup match. A 1-1 draw away in the Premiership before that, with St. Mirren the opponent.

Livingston are traveling soon after this match as the Premiership match at Motherwell awaits in three days.

Livingston are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 16 goals in 14 games. On the other hand, Livingston have conceded 17 goals. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Rangers form and stats

The away team, who have the most scored goals (73) in Premiership, have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 11 wins, 4 draws and only 0 losses in the Premiership.

The supporters enjoyed Rangers's previous game versus Antwerp, a Europa League 5-2 win played at home. Prior to that match, a home win 4-1 against Dundee United in the Premiership.

A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for Rangers, as mentioned above. 7 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun?

After this away game Rangers return home for a Premiership game against St. Mirren. That game is only three sleeps after this.

The travelling fans enjoy Rangers's attacking play in away games, having scored 29 goals in 15 league matches away. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 3 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Rangers are tighter than a frog's bottom, as only 7 away goals have been conceded so far.

Head 2 Head

Livingston and Rangers have met before this season: Rangers - Livingston 2-0. Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: two wins for Livingston, one draw and seven wins for Rangers. Over 2,5 goals: three times; under 2,5 goals: seven games.

Top Goalscorers

RangersJ. Tavernier
J. Tavernier
11 goals
RangersK. Roofe
K. Roofe
10 goals
RangersA. Morelos Aviléz
A. Morelos Aviléz
8 goals

Livingston missing players

Rangers missing players

Livingston Rangers
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
29 14 3 Played P 3 15 30
11 5 0 Won W 3 11 26
7 3 2 Drew D 0 4 4
11 6 1 Lost L 0 0 0
36 16 3 Scored S 7 29 73
35 17 6 Conceded C 1 7 9
90% 86% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 93% 97%
79% 71% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 73% 73%
48% 43% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 40% 47%
21% 29% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 30%
7% 7% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 7% 13%
48% 43% 67% BTTS BTTS 33% 40% 27%
34% 43% 33% Clean Sheets C S 67% 60% 73%
28% 29% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 7% 3%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.4 1.7 0.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.7 0.9 0.7
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
9.7 9.4 6.7 Shots (avg) S ( 12.7 15.7 16.3
3.2 2.8 1.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.7 4.9 5.9
39% 41% 60% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 40% 41%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Livingston have the fewest matches under the total-line (11) in Premiership
  • Livingston have the most matches over the total-line (16) 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 Livingston.
  • Rangers have the fewest conceded goals (7) away in Premiership
  • Rangers have the fewest conceded goals (9) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (5) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the fewest dropped points from leading position (4) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most clean sheets (22) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most clean sheets (9) away in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most points (37) away in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most scored goals (73) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most scored goals in the first half (38) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the the best goal difference (+64) in Premiership
  • 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 30 26 4 0 73 9 15 15 0 0 44 2 15 11 4 0 29 7 64 82
2 Celtic 31 20 7 4 65 23 16 11 3 2 30 10 15 9 4 2 35 13 42 67
3 Hibernian 30 15 7 8 41 28 16 6 5 5 19 19 14 9 2 3 22 9 13 52
4 Aberdeen 31 13 9 9 32 30 16 9 3 4 22 16 15 4 6 5 10 14 2 48
5 Livingston 29 11 7 11 36 35 14 5 3 6 16 17 15 6 4 5 20 18 1 40
6 St. Mirren 31 10 9 12 29 34 17 4 7 6 14 21 14 6 2 6 15 13 -5 39
7 Dundee United 31 8 11 12 28 43 15 5 4 6 18 20 16 3 7 6 10 23 -15 35
8 St. Johnstone 30 8 9 13 31 39 14 3 4 7 6 13 16 5 5 6 25 26 -8 33
9 Motherwell 31 8 8 15 28 46 15 3 3 9 13 28 16 5 5 6 15 18 -18 32
10 Ross County 30 7 5 18 22 54 15 3 4 8 12 27 15 4 1 10 10 27 -32 26
11 Kilmarnock 31 7 4 20 27 43 15 4 3 8 18 21 16 3 1 12 9 22 -16 25
12 Hamilton Academical 29 6 6 17 28 56 14 2 4 8 11 23 15 4 2 9 17 33 -28 24

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.