Match guide: Rangers the front runner when Aberdeen visit

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 05.March
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Ibrox Stadium (50817 seats)

Rangers are hunting the top league spots while Aberdeen are more worried about avoiding relegation. May the best team win!

Insights:
  • Rangers have the most points from losing position (18) in Premiership
  • Aberdeen have the fewest clean sheets (4) in Premiership

It's no vacation for neither Rangers nor Aberdeen as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Rangers form and stats

Rangers have performed here at Ibrox Stadium this season with 11 wins from 15 Premiership matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 4 games and lost 0. The Rangers fans aren't used to losing league-games here at Ibrox Stadium and will expect new points from this game. Rangers has played 15 games in a row here without a defeat.

Rangers enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at St. Johnstone's place. The match ended 1-0 with Kamara scoring. The versatile forward Morelos bettered all teammates in that match and got a match rating of 7.81 out of 10. Morelos hit the woodwork once, served one assist, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times.

Preceding that game was the home draw versus Motherwell that ended 2-2.

Goals decide football matches and Rangers are scoring many of them at home; 32 on target from 15 league matches. Rangers have only conceded 9 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Aberdeen form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Aberdeen so far with only 10 points returning home. The records show 2-4-9 (win-draw-lose).

Aberdeen lost away at Hearts (0-2) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. Midfield player Ferguson was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.34/10. Ferguson dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.

A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Dundee United.

As mentioned above, the bookmakers do not believe the away team will get anything from this match. Checking Aberdeen's match history for similar games we find four matches. The home team won two of these as expected, two of them by at least two goals. Aberdeen managed two draws and zero surprise wins.

The visitors have scored 13 goals from 15 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Aberdeen have conceded 22 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Aberdeen - Rangers 1-1 was the end result in these contenders' last h2h game, played this season. Kent (Rangers) was sent off by the referee when these teams last played each other. Rangers-Aberdeen H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Rangers six wins, Aberdeen zero wins, four draws. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

RangersA. Morelos Aviléz
A. Morelos Aviléz
12 goals
AberdeenC. Ramírez
C. Ramírez
10 goals
RangersJ. Aribo
J. Aribo
7 goals

Rangers missing players

Aberdeen missing players

Rangers Aberdeen
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
29 15 3 Played P 5 15 29
20 11 3 Won W 1 2 8
7 4 0 Drew D 1 4 8
2 0 0 Lost L 3 9 13
59 32 7 Scored S 5 13 33
24 9 0 Conceded C 8 22 37
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
76% 80% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 73% 79%
48% 47% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 60% 40% 38%
28% 27% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 13% 14%
17% 13% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 7% 10%
48% 40% 0% BTTS BTTS 80% 60% 62%
45% 60% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 7% 14%
7% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 20% 33% 24%
 
7.9 8.9 8.3 Corners for (avg) C F 2.8 3.7 4.8
3.9 2.7 2.7 Corners against (avg) C A 7.2 5.9 5.1
1.7 1.5 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.6 2.6 2.1
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
19.5 21.8 26 Shots (avg) S ( 7.6 10.9 12.9
6.6 7.5 9.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.6 4.9 5.1
31% 29% 24% Goal Efficiency G E 28% 18% 22%
 
6.6 5.6 3.3 Shots against (avg) S A 12.2 10.7 8.6
2.7 2.1 1 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 2.9 2.6
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Aberdeen have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Aberdeen have the fewest clean sheets (4) in Premiership
  • Aberdeen have the fewest matches under the total-line (5) in Premiership
  • Aberdeen have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Aberdeen haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Rangers have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Rangers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Rangers have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Aberdeen have scored away.
  • Rangers have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Rangers have the most points from losing position (18) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most scored goals in the second half (31) 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 29 22 4 3 62 17 14 12 2 0 33 4 15 10 2 3 29 13 45 70
2 Rangers 29 20 7 2 59 24 15 11 4 0 32 9 14 9 3 2 27 15 35 67
3 Hearts 29 14 7 8 40 29 15 9 3 3 26 12 14 5 4 5 14 17 11 49
4 Livingston 29 10 7 12 32 35 14 5 3 6 15 16 15 5 4 6 17 19 -3 37
5 Hibernian 29 9 9 11 28 30 15 6 4 5 16 14 14 3 5 6 12 16 -2 36
6 Dundee United 29 9 8 12 24 31 14 7 1 6 13 15 15 2 7 6 11 16 -7 35
7 Motherwell 29 9 8 12 30 43 15 7 3 5 18 21 14 2 5 7 12 22 -13 35
8 Ross County 29 8 9 12 42 47 14 4 6 4 25 24 15 4 3 8 17 23 -5 33
9 St. Mirren 28 7 12 9 26 39 14 3 7 4 11 13 14 4 5 5 15 26 -13 33
10 Aberdeen 29 8 8 13 33 37 14 6 4 4 20 15 15 2 4 9 13 22 -4 32
11 St. Johnstone 29 5 8 16 18 36 15 2 5 8 11 19 14 3 3 8 7 17 -18 23
12 Dundee 28 5 7 16 23 49 14 3 5 6 13 22 14 2 2 10 10 27 -26 22

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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.