Football betting preview: Livingston with moderate expectations before welcoming Rangers

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sun 28.November
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Tony Macaroni Arena (8716 seats)

A cursory look at the Premiership standings suggest an edge to Rangers when they arrive at Livingston. Even so; let's play before points are handed out!

Insights:
  • Livingston have the fewest points (4) at home in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most points from losing position (16) in Premiership

Rangers could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Europa League game only three sleeps ago.

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Livingston form and stats

The total Premiership stats playing at home this season for Livingston are 1-1-3 (wins-draws-losses). When Livingston hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Celtic, Hearts and Dundee United), they have won 1 of 2 matches! With three draws from their last three games overall it has been a case of neither great nor terrible for Livingston.

An away draw last time out for Livingston, facing St. Mirren in a game that ended 1-1. Nicky Devlin, defender, was given a rating of 7.83/10 in that game, top of the team. Devlin scored one goal, hit one key pass and won 9 of 11 duels.

0-0 away at Celtic before that.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Livingston as they are travelling to their away game against Aberdeen in the Premiership. That match is three days after this one.

Livingston have scored 4 league goals here from 5 matches, not a lot. On the other hand, Livingston have conceded 6 goals.

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Rangers form and stats

The strength of Rangers on their travels this season is incredible with 15 points collected from 6 Premiership away games. Rangers has 5-0-1 on the road, with 15 goals scored and 6 conceded. Things are running smoothly for Rangers who hasn't tasted defeat in their last eleven matches, regardless of venue and tournament. Their last defeat was against Dundee United.

Rangers are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the Europa League against Sparta Praha. The attacker Alfredo Morelos got a match rating of 8.82 in that game. Morelos scored two goals and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.

Preceding that, the 1-3 home loss versus Hibernian.

Rangers have another match away in just three sleeps, a Premiership fixture vs Hibernian. A back-breaking itinerary for the visitors!

Today's guests are confident travelers having scored 15 goals in 6 league games away this season. As opposed to that, Rangers have seen the ball go into their own net 6 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The latest head-to-head encounter ended Rangers - Livingston 3-0, played this season. Last ten meetings between these sides: Livingston won zero, Rangers triumphed in nine and we saw one draw. three games with more than 2,5 goals, seven matches with less than 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

RangersK. Roofe
K. Roofe
5 goals
RangersA. Morelos Aviléz
A. Morelos Aviléz
4 goals
RangersJ. Sakala
J. Sakala
4 goals

Livingston missing players

Rangers missing players

Livingston Rangers
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
13 5 2 Played P 3 6 13
3 1 1 Won W 3 5 9
4 1 1 Drew D 0 0 3
6 3 0 Lost L 0 1 1
11 4 2 Scored S 7 15 29
17 6 1 Conceded C 3 6 13
85% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
69% 60% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 67% 77%
46% 40% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 67% 62%
8% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 33% 31%
8% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 33% 23%
38% 60% 50% BTTS BTTS 67% 67% 69%
31% 20% 50% Clean Sheets C S 33% 17% 23%
46% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 17% 8%
 
3.7 5 3.5 Corners for (avg) C F 9 9 9.2
6.2 5 7 Corners against (avg) C A 4.3 4 3
2.4 2.4 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.7 1.8 1.6
2 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
8.1 11 8.5 Shots (avg) S ( 17.7 19.5 20
2.3 2.6 2.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.3 6 6.3
37% 31% 40% Goal Efficiency G E 44% 42% 35%
 
14.1 12 16 Shots against (avg) S A 8.3 6.3 5.7
4 3 1.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.7 2.8 2.4
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Livingston have the fewest points (4) at home in Premiership
  • Livingston have the fewest scored goals (4) at home in Premiership
  • Livingston have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Livingston haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • 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 most points (15) away in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most points from losing position (16) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most scored goals (15) away in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most scored goals in the second half (16) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the the best goal difference (+9) away 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 Rangers 13 9 3 1 29 13 7 4 3 0 14 7 6 5 0 1 15 6 16 30
2 Celtic 13 8 2 3 30 9 6 4 2 0 18 1 7 4 0 3 12 8 21 26
3 Hearts 14 6 6 2 23 14 7 4 3 0 14 5 7 2 3 2 9 9 9 24
4 Dundee United 14 7 3 4 14 13 7 5 0 2 6 4 7 2 3 2 8 9 1 24
5 Motherwell 14 6 3 5 19 21 8 4 1 3 12 14 6 2 2 2 7 7 -2 21
6 St. Mirren 14 3 7 4 16 22 7 1 3 3 6 8 7 2 4 1 10 14 -6 16
7 Hibernian 12 4 3 5 15 16 6 3 1 2 9 8 6 1 2 3 6 8 -1 15
8 Aberdeen 14 4 3 7 15 19 7 3 1 3 7 7 7 1 2 4 8 12 -4 15
9 St. Johnstone 13 3 5 5 8 12 7 1 3 3 6 9 6 2 2 2 2 3 -4 14
10 Livingston 13 3 4 6 11 17 5 1 1 3 4 6 8 2 3 3 7 11 -6 13
11 Dundee 13 2 4 7 11 27 7 1 3 3 8 15 6 1 1 4 3 12 -16 10
12 Ross County 13 2 3 8 18 26 6 1 2 3 9 12 7 1 1 5 9 14 -8 9

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.