Premiership prediction: Rangers should edge out Dundee United on their own turf

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 18.December
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Ibrox Stadium (50817 seats)

Get ready for a show! The main heroes are Rangers and Dundee United, 3 points is the objective and 90 minutes the length.

Insights:
  • Rangers have the most scored goals (40) in Premiership
  • Rangers have scored more than double the goals of Dundee United.

The hosts Rangers saw competitive action as recent as three days ago, playing in the Premiership. This match was also played here at Ibrox Stadium. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Dundee United have had more rest.

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Rangers form and stats

Rangers have performed here at Ibrox Stadium this season with 6 wins from 9 Premiership matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 3 games and lost 0. Rangers haven’t lost a league-game in 16 attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Dundee United, 133 days ago.

Rangers are confident in defense, having played 420 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

A nice win for Rangers last time playing, versus St. Johnstone. That was also a home game and the match ended 2-0 with Morelos and Kent scoring for the victors. Morelos, a striker, was the champion performer for the side in that fixture, scoring a rating of 8.54 (out of 10). Morelos scored one goal, served one assist, hit seven key passes and had 34 successful passes (of 42 total).

In the preceding match a 2-0 victory visiting Hearts.

Goals decide football matches and Rangers are scoring many of them at home; 19 on target from 9 league matches. Rangers have only conceded 7 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Dundee United form and stats

The visitors are W2-D4-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Premiership. Recent form does not give Dundee much hope, as the visitors have lost three games in a row. Rangers will be a tough nut to crack.

Dundee United have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 311 minutes ago. Appere was the goal scorer.

Dundee United might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Livingston proved too strong as Dundee slumped to a 0-1 defeat in front of their own fans at Tannadice Park. Mulgrew, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.82. Mulgrew won 14 of 14 duels.

Preceding that, the 0-3 home loss versus Celtic.

The home team is given a winning chance of about 80 percent by the betting public. This does not leave much hope for the visitors, but some teams enjoy the outsider role and perform well in it. Looking at similar away games for Dundee we find two games. Results are zero Dundee United wins, one draw and one defeat.

Dundee United are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 9 away goals from 9 games (in the league). Dundee have conceded 11 goals in these away matches. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

The records show that this isn''t the first time these sides get together this season, as the fixture list show this recent fixture: Dundee United - Rangers 1-0. Rangers-Dundee United H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Rangers five wins, Dundee United five wins, zero draws. eight of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

RangersA. Morelos Aviléz
A. Morelos Aviléz
7 goals
RangersJ. Aribo
J. Aribo
6 goals
RangersK. Roofe
K. Roofe
6 goals

Rangers missing players

Dundee United missing players

Rangers Dundee United
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
18 9 2 Played P 2 9 18
14 6 1 Won W 0 2 7
3 3 1 Drew D 1 4 4
1 0 0 Lost L 1 3 7
40 19 2 Scored S 3 9 15
14 7 1 Conceded C 6 11 19
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 89% 94%
78% 89% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 50%
56% 56% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 22% 22%
28% 22% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 11% 6%
17% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 11% 6%
56% 56% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 44% 28%
39% 44% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 39%
6% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 39%
 
8.6 9.3 5 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.2 4.4
3.6 2.4 4 Corners against (avg) C A 8.5 5.9 5.7
1.7 1.3 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.6 2.4
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
19.9 21.9 20.5 Shots (avg) S ( 12.5 9.7 10.6
6.9 7.6 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 3.8 4
32% 28% 17% Goal Efficiency G E 30% 26% 21%
 
6.1 5 7.5 Shots against (avg) S A 23 14.2 13.7
2.6 1.9 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 3 3.4
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • 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 in all their home matches so far.
  • Rangers have scored more than double the goals of Dundee United.
  • Rangers have the most points from losing position (16) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most scored goals (40) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most scored goals in the second half (21) 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 18 14 3 1 40 14 9 6 3 0 19 7 9 8 0 1 21 7 26 45
2 Celtic 18 13 2 3 39 11 9 7 2 0 22 2 9 6 0 3 17 9 28 41
3 Hearts 18 8 6 4 26 17 9 5 3 1 16 7 9 3 3 3 10 10 9 30
4 Dundee United 18 7 4 7 15 19 9 5 0 4 6 8 9 2 4 3 9 11 -4 25
5 Motherwell 18 7 4 7 21 26 9 5 1 3 13 14 9 2 3 4 8 12 -5 25
6 Aberdeen 18 7 3 8 23 22 9 5 1 3 13 8 9 2 2 5 10 14 1 24
7 Hibernian 18 6 5 7 20 21 9 4 2 3 11 10 9 2 3 4 9 11 -1 23
8 Livingston 18 5 4 9 14 23 8 2 1 5 6 10 10 3 3 4 8 13 -9 19
9 St. Mirren 18 3 9 6 18 29 9 1 5 3 7 9 9 2 4 3 11 20 -11 18
10 Dundee 18 4 4 10 17 34 9 3 3 3 12 15 9 1 1 7 5 19 -17 16
11 Ross County 17 3 5 9 23 31 9 2 3 4 14 17 8 1 2 5 9 14 -8 14
12 St. Johnstone 17 3 5 9 9 18 9 1 3 5 7 12 8 2 2 4 2 6 -9 14

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.