The league table in Premiership tells a story about these teams so far, with Rangers leading Hearts by 23 points. Match preview to follow:
The hosts Rangers saw competitive action as recent as three days ago, playing in the Europa League. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Feyenoord.
Rangers form and stats
Home games in the Premiership have been a walk in the park for Rangers so far, with 15 points won from 6 matches; 5 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss. The happy trend is alive also outside their own arena as Rangers has won their last four matches. Rangers has won so many consecutive home games (four in a row) that they struggle to remember the last time points were lost here at Ibrox. We remember; it was Celtic.
The home team returns to Ibrox after sharing the points with Feyenoord on their last time out; the Europa League game ended 2-2. A strong away win before that one, visiting Hamilton Academical and winning 3-1.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Rangers as they are travelling to their away game against Aberdeen in the Premiership. That match is three days after this one.
With more than three goals on average, the attacking play of Rangers is on fire here. A stunning 21 from 6 league matches. Rangers have only conceded 5 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Hearts form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Hearts so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 1-2-4 (win-draw-lose). With two straight losses from their last two away games, Hearts are hoping that it's time for some travel points again.
Hearts play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-3 to Kilmarnock (placed 5th). That result followed a home victory 5-2 versus St. Mirren.
Hearts did not look prepared in the first half against Kilmarnock and lost the game during the first 45 minutes. They need to evaluate their pre-match routine before this one.
With the home team given a winning probability of about 80% by the bookmakers, any point(s) for the visitors would be a surprise. Checking earlier matches with similar odds with Hearts as the away team, we found three results. Statistics from these were 0 away wins, 0 draws and 3 defeats. The outsiders lost 2 of these games by at least two goals.
After this away game Hearts return home for a Premiership game against Livingston. That game is only three sleeps after this.
The visitors have scored 5 goals from 7 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Hearts have conceded 11 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Hearts - Rangers 1-1 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Rangers won 8 games, 2 matches ended with a draw and Hearts has 0 wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: 7 / 3Top Goalscorers
 
J. Defoe
10 goals
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A. Morelos
9 goals
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C. Goldson
3 goals
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Rangers missing players
Hearts missing players
| Rangers | Hearts | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs
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Statistics | Stat | vs
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Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 13 |
| 11 | 5 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 38 | 21 | 5 | Scored | S | 3 | 5 | 15 |
| 8 | 5 | 0 | Conceded | C | 6 | 11 | 20 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 71% | 77% |
| 92% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 57% | 62% |
| 69% | 83% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 57% | 54% |
| 54% | 67% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 29% | 38% |
| 23% | 50% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 14% | 23% |
| 46% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 43% | 54% |
| 46% | 33% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 29% | 23% |
| 8% | 17% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 57% | 46% |
| 6.8 | 8.5 | 8 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 5 | 5 |
| 1.8 | 1.8 | 0 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 5.3 | 5.4 |
| 1 | 0.5 | 0 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 3.5 | 2.3 | 1.8 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 255 | 136 | 27 | Total Shots | T S | 13 | 60 | 117 |
| 104 | 58 | 15 | Shots on Target | S O | 4 | 19 | 44 |
| 37% | 36% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 75% | 26% | 34% |
- All of Rangers's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Hearts have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Hearts have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Rangers has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (3)
- Rangers have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Rangers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Rangers have scored more than double the goals of Hearts.
- Rangers have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Rangers have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Rangers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Rangers is in the best form (5-1-0)
| 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 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 44 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 6 | 36 | 37 |
| 2 | Rangers | 13 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 38 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 30 | 34 |
| 3 | Aberdeen | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 23 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 28 |
| 4 | Motherwell | 15 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 25 | 22 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 25 |
| 5 | Kilmarnock | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 22 |
| 6 | Hibernian | 15 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 23 | 27 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 15 | -4 | 19 |
| 7 | Livingston | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 18 | -7 | 14 |
| 8 | Ross County | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 34 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 18 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 16 | -17 | 14 |
| 9 | Hamilton Academical | 15 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 27 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 15 | -12 | 12 |
| 10 | Hearts | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | -5 | 11 |
| 11 | St. Mirren | 15 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 17 | -10 | 11 |
| 12 | St. Johnstone | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 33 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 18 | -20 | 11 |