Premiership preview: Home supporters expecting a win when Rangers host Hamilton Academical

Rangers have less rest than Hamilton Academical in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Europa League game only three days ago. That game was an away game at Benfica, so at least Rangers are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

This pitch has grass, which is not Hamilton Academical's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on grass Hamilton Academical have performed like this: Played 36 matches resulting in 8 wins, 4 draws and 24 defeats with the goal stats 30-75 (scored/conceded).

Rangers form and stats

6-0-0 is the performance here at Ibrox Stadium so far in the Premiership, giving Rangers a total of 18 from their 6 games here. Outstanding results! The team is able to perform also as the away side, as they are nurturing a very healthy winning streak of five straight victories regardless of arena.

The Rangers goalkeeper Allan McGregor is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 363 minutes without conceding a goal in the Premiership.

Rangers manager S. Gerrard and his team return home after a 3-3 draw away versus Benfica in the Europa League. Before that match, a Premiership win away at Kilmarnock.

Opportunity lost for Rangers in the Benfica match as a lead 3-1 was lost and what looked like a victory ended in a draw. A goal frenzy last time out for Rangers, with a total of 6 goals in the match against Benfica. Fun stuff to watch!

Everyone expects Rangers to win this match. We have checked our database for matches where they have been as big a favourite and found nine games: eight home wins, zero draws and one defeat. Rangers have won with at least two goals margin seven times in similar situations.

Rangers are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Ibrox Stadium in their league games, having scored an impressive 16 goals in 6 matches. Defensively Rangers have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (0 in 6 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

Hamilton Academical form and stats

There's been little loot from Hamilton Academical's travels as they have only collected 6 points from 6 away games in the Premiership. Hamilton Academical, who have the most conceded goals (25) in Premiership, only have 2 wins to counter their 4 defeats and 0 draws. It's a growing despair in Academical as they have recorded three consecutive losses. Three might be a magic number, but there's been little wizardry in Hamilton Academical's last three away games as they have all been lost.

Academical are travelling again after losing away to Aberdeen in their previous match (2-4). A loss against St. Johnstone was the result prior to that, in a home game.

A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for Academical, as mentioned above. 6 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun?

Nobody expects Academical to collect anything from a game like this. The team has been David versus Goliath eight times before, with the overall statistics of won two, draw zero and lost six. When defeated, four matches have been lost by two or more goals.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Hamilton Academical manager B. Rice as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Stranraer.

Academical are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 9 times in 6 away games so far. Hamilton Academical are struggling defensively in their away games, having conceded 9 goals in these matches.

Head 2 Head

Rangers and Hamilton Academical have met before this season: Hamilton Academical - Rangers 0-2. Rangers-Hamilton Academical H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Rangers eight wins, Hamilton Academical two wins, zero draws. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

J. Tavernier 6 goals

R. Kent 4 goals

A. Morelos Aviléz 3 goals

Rangers missing players

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