Rangers expected to challenge Motherwell at their own home

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sun 27.September
Match begins: 11:00 (UTC)
Venue: Fir Park (13677 seats)

Motherwell will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 12 points behind Rangers.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Motherwell form and stats

Motherwell have played 4 Premiership games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 1-1-2 (wins-draws-losses).

The Motherwell goalkeeper Trevor Carson is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 180 minutes without conceding a goal in the Premiership.

Motherwell enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Aberdeen's place. The match ended 3-0 with Christopher Long, Mark O'Hara and Bevis Mugabi scoring. Before that, Motherwell played out a Europa League draw 2-2 when visiting Coleraine (after extra-time, 0-3 on penalties).

The 3-0 win against Aberdeen was decided after a strong and deadly first half, making the second half more of a journey towards the final whistle.

Motherwell aren't scoring a lot here at Fir Park in the league, with only 3 goals from 4 games. 4 goals have been conceded.

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Rangers form and stats

2-2-0 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Rangers, who have the fewest conceded goals (2) in Premiership, in their Premiership matches away.

Rangers are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 2-2 draw at Hibernian (placed 3rd). Prior to that result Rangers won their away game at Lincoln Red Imps in the Europa League. The scoreline was 5-0.

Rangers are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 5 away goals from 4 games (in the league). Rangers are tighter than a frog's bottom, as only 2 away goals have been conceded so far.

Head 2 Head

Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: one win for Motherwell, two draws and seven wins for Rangers. Over 2,5 goals: seven times; under 2,5 goals: three games.

Top Goalscorers

RangersR. Kent
R. Kent
4 goals
RangersA. Morelos Aviléz
A. Morelos Aviléz
3 goals
MotherwellA. Campbell
A. Campbell
2 goals

Motherwell missing players

Rangers missing players

Motherwell Rangers
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
8 4 0 Played P 0 4 8
2 1 0 Won W 0 2 6
2 1 0 Drew D 0 2 2
4 2 0 Lost L 0 0 0
6 3 0 Scored S 0 5 17
8 4 0 Conceded C 0 2 2
88% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 75% 88%
38% 25% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 50% 75%
38% 25% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 25% 50%
12% 25% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 25%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
12% 25% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 25% 12%
38% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 75% 88%
62% 50% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 12%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.8 2.5 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1 0.8
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
96 49 0 Total Shots T S 0 77 162
21 13 0 Shots on Target S O 0 17 50
29% 23% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 29% 34%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Motherwell has the fewest scored goals in the second half (0) in Premiership
  • Motherwell haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Rangers has the fewest conceded goals (2) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most clean sheets (7) 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 Motherwell.

  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 8 6 2 0 17 2 4 4 0 0 12 0 4 2 2 0 5 2 15 20
2 Celtic 7 6 1 0 20 5 3 3 0 0 11 3 4 3 1 0 9 2 15 19
3 Hibernian 8 5 2 1 13 5 4 1 2 1 4 4 4 4 0 0 9 1 8 17
4 Aberdeen 6 4 0 2 5 5 4 2 0 2 3 5 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 12
5 Ross County 8 3 2 3 7 11 4 1 1 2 4 9 4 2 1 1 3 2 -4 11
6 Dundee United 8 3 1 4 6 13 4 1 1 2 3 4 4 2 0 2 3 9 -7 10
7 Kilmarnock 8 2 2 4 11 11 4 2 1 1 8 4 4 0 1 3 3 7 0 8
8 Motherwell 8 2 2 4 6 8 4 1 1 2 3 4 4 1 1 2 3 4 -2 8
9 St. Johnstone 8 2 1 5 4 9 4 1 0 3 1 3 4 1 1 2 3 6 -5 7
10 St. Mirren 8 2 1 5 5 12 4 1 1 2 3 6 4 1 0 3 2 6 -7 7
11 Hamilton Academical 7 2 0 5 5 12 3 0 0 3 0 4 4 2 0 2 5 8 -7 6
12 Livingston 8 1 2 5 8 14 4 1 1 2 3 6 4 0 1 3 5 8 -6 5

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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.