Rangers travel to Motherwell with space in suitcase for three points

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sun 16.October
Match begins: 11:00 (UTC)
Venue: Fir Park (13677 seats)

Rangers go on their trip to Motherwell and Fir Park brimming with hope and confidence, but the team playing at home is no weakling. More information on the match here!

Insights:
  • Motherwell is in the worst form (1-1-4)
  • Rangers have the most matches over the total-line (8) in Premiership

There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Champions League game only four days ago.

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Motherwell form and stats

1 victory, 1 draw and 2 defeats. That’s what Motherwell have to build on here at Fir Park in the Premiership.

The fans are hoping that Motherwell will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the match against Hibernian (placed 3rd). Midfielder Goss was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.31 (out of ten) in that game. Goss hit one key pass and had 31 successful passes (of 37 total).

A strong away win before that one, visiting Ross County and winning 5-0.

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

The match schedule is unforgiving for Motherwell as they have a new game in only three days, a League Cup match thankfully also at home. Celtic are visiting.

Motherwell aren't scoring a lot here at Fir Park in the league, with only {2 goals} from 4 games. Motherwell's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 5 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Rangers form and stats

As the visiting team in Premiership matches, Rangers have produced an overall stat of 2-1-1 so far.

211 minutes! That's how long the Rangers goalkeeper Allan McGregor and his defense have shut out their league opponents.

This fixture can not go any worse than the last one, a Champions League home defeat versus Liverpool with 1-7 on the scoreboard. Midfield player Sakala was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.05/10. Sakala hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.

A home win before that, celebrating 4-0 vs St. Mirren.

Will there be lots of goals? This team have played 7 consecutive league matches all with three or more than three goals (over 2.5 goals).

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Dundee in just three days.

Rangers struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 7 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

Rangers have managed a sequence of 14 consecutive games without defeat (9-5-0) when facing Motherwell.

Top Goalscorers

RangersA. Čolak
A. Čolak
10 goals
MotherwellK. van Veen
K. van Veen
7 goals
RangersJ. Tavernier
J. Tavernier
3 goals

Motherwell missing players

Rangers missing players

Motherwell Rangers
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
10 4 0 Played P 2 4 9
4 1 0 Won W 2 2 7
1 1 0 Drew D 0 1 1
5 2 0 Lost L 0 1 1
13 2 0 Scored S 6 8 24
12 5 0 Conceded C 1 7 8
90% 75% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
60% 50% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 100%
60% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 100% 89%
20% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 75% 67%
20% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
40% 25% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 50% 33%
40% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 25% 56%
30% 50% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 11%
 
4.7 3.8 0 Corners for (avg) C F 7.5 5.5 6.8
5 3.8 0 Corners against (avg) C A 2.5 3.2 3
2.4 1.8 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.8 1.9
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
12.8 15.5 0 Shots (avg) S ( 21 15.2 18.6
3.4 3.2 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 7.5 4.8 6.4
38% 15% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 42% 41%
 
11.4 7.2 0 Shots against (avg) S A 6 8.2 7
3 2.2 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 1.5 3.2 2.7
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • All of Rangers's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • Motherwell have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
  • Motherwell have the fewest scored goals (2) at home in Premiership
  • Motherwell have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Motherwell is in the worst form (1-1-4)
  • 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 at least twice as many goals away as Motherwell have scored home.
  • Rangers have the fewest matches under the total-line (1) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most matches over the total-line (8) in Premiership
  • Rangers have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Rangers have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • 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 9 8 0 1 29 5 4 4 0 0 10 1 5 4 0 1 19 4 24 24
2 Rangers 9 7 1 1 24 8 5 5 0 0 16 1 4 2 1 1 8 7 16 22
3 Hibernian 10 5 2 3 12 8 5 3 2 0 8 4 5 2 0 3 4 4 4 17
4 St. Mirren 9 5 0 4 10 13 5 4 0 1 6 2 4 1 0 3 4 11 -3 15
5 Hearts 9 4 2 3 15 14 4 3 0 1 9 8 5 1 2 2 6 6 1 14
6 Aberdeen 9 4 1 4 18 15 4 3 0 1 15 5 5 1 1 3 3 10 3 13
7 Motherwell 10 4 1 5 13 12 4 1 1 2 2 5 6 3 0 3 11 7 1 13
8 Livingston 9 4 0 5 7 12 5 3 0 2 5 4 4 1 0 3 2 8 -5 12
9 St. Johnstone 10 3 1 6 11 15 5 1 1 3 4 4 5 2 0 3 7 11 -4 10
10 Kilmarnock 10 2 2 6 8 19 5 2 2 1 7 10 5 0 0 5 1 9 -11 8
11 Dundee United 10 2 2 6 9 22 6 2 0 4 6 15 4 0 2 2 3 7 -13 8
12 Ross County 10 2 2 6 5 18 5 1 1 3 3 11 5 1 1 3 2 7 -13 8

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.