Premiership preview with statistics: Livingston welcomes Rangers to Tony Macaroni Arena

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 18.February
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Tony Macaroni Arena (8716 seats)

We love the setup of this fixture, with Livingston placed 4th and Rangers placed 2nd. Read our preview!

Insights:
  • Livingston have the fewest scored goals in the second half (10) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most points from losing position (18) in Premiership

Livingston and Rangers should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Livingston form and stats

Livingston have collected 21 points from their Premiership home games so far after 6-3-3.

Livingston's previous game was also a home event, the loss 0-3 against Inverness CT (in Scottish Cup).

Previous to that game, a Premiership home match hosting Kilmarnock in a game that was won 3-1.

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 Livingston had similar winning odds as today, and found 7 games. In these, the hosts won 1, drew 0 and lost 6. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Livingston lost 4 similar games by at least two goals.

Livingston are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 13 goals in 12 games. Livingston are not conceding a lot of goals here at Tony Macaroni Arena in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 11 from 12 matches.

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Rangers form and stats

Rangers have an excellent away record in the Premiership so far with 8-2-2 from 12 games. In general it has been a productive period now for Rangers as they haven't lost any of their last twelve games.

The fans enjoyed Rangers's previous match versus Partick Thistle, a Scottish Cup win (3-2) played at home.

A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Ross County.

15 goals have been conceded by Rangers in these games.

Head 2 Head

Rangers have avoided a loss in the last 16 matches (14-2-0) facing Livingston.

The two combatants have played earlier this season: Rangers - Livingston 1-1. The referee got to use his red card when these teams last played each other, and the recipient was Boyes (Livingston).

Top Goalscorers

RangersA. Čolak
A. Čolak
11 goals
RangersA. Morelos Aviléz
A. Morelos Aviléz
9 goals
RangersJ. Tavernier
J. Tavernier
8 goals

Livingston missing players

Rangers missing players

Livingston Rangers
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
24 12 3 Played P 3 12 25
10 6 1 Won W 2 8 19
5 3 1 Drew D 0 2 4
9 3 1 Lost L 1 2 2
27 13 1 Scored S 7 24 58
34 11 3 Conceded C 4 15 23
96% 92% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
71% 58% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 92% 92%
50% 42% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 75% 72%
21% 8% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 42% 44%
12% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 17% 16%
50% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 58% 52%
25% 33% 67% Clean Sheets C S 67% 33% 44%
29% 25% 67% Failed to Score F T 33% 8% 4%
 
3.6 4.2 1.3 Corners for (avg) C F 6 6.4 7.3
6.5 5.3 4 Corners against (avg) C A 3 2.5 3.1
2.1 2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.7 2.2 2
5 1 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
9.8 10.3 7 Shots (avg) S ( 18.7 14.2 18
3.1 3.6 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 7.7 5.8 6.6
36% 30% 17% Goal Efficiency G E 30% 35% 35%
 
14.9 13.4 10.3 Shots against (avg) S A 9.7 7.4 7.1
4.3 3.8 3.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.3 2.4 2.3
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Livingston have the fewest scored goals in the second half (10) in Premiership
  • Rangers have created more than twice as many corners as Livingston.
  • Rangers have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • 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 in the second half (11) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most points from losing position (18) in Premiership
  • Rangers have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • 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 25 23 1 1 78 18 12 12 0 0 37 7 13 11 1 1 41 11 60 70
2 Rangers 25 19 4 2 58 23 13 11 2 0 34 8 12 8 2 2 24 15 35 61
3 Hearts 25 12 6 7 45 35 13 9 1 3 31 20 12 3 5 4 14 15 10 42
4 Livingston 24 10 5 9 27 34 12 6 3 3 13 11 12 4 2 6 14 23 -7 35
5 Hibernian 25 10 4 11 37 38 12 6 3 3 24 14 13 4 1 8 13 24 -1 34
6 St. Mirren 24 9 6 9 26 33 13 7 4 2 16 9 11 2 2 7 10 24 -7 33
7 Aberdeen 25 10 2 13 39 47 13 8 1 4 30 14 12 2 1 9 9 33 -8 32
8 St. Johnstone 25 8 3 14 29 42 12 3 2 7 13 18 13 5 1 7 16 24 -13 27
9 Kilmarnock 25 6 5 14 21 44 12 6 3 3 16 17 13 0 2 11 5 27 -23 23
10 Ross County 25 5 6 14 20 38 13 3 3 7 13 22 12 2 3 7 7 16 -18 21
11 Motherwell 24 5 5 14 27 38 11 1 3 7 10 19 13 4 2 7 17 19 -11 20
12 Dundee United 24 5 5 14 26 43 12 4 1 7 15 22 12 1 4 7 11 21 -17 20

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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.