Match preview: Home crowd has high hopes when Rangers receive Hibernian

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Wed 09.February
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Ibrox Stadium (50817 seats)

A quick look at the Premiership table shows that this is top- against mid-table, but the outcome is not given. Get our Rangers - Hibernian match guide!

Insights:
  • Rangers have the most points from losing position (17) in Premiership
  • Rangers have scored more than double the goals of Hibernian.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Rangers and Hibernian.

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Rangers form and stats

Home games in the Premiership have been a walk in the park for Rangers so far, with 33 points won from 13 matches; 10 wins, 3 draws and 0 losses. 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 13 games in a row here without a defeat.

The Rangers club members enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Hearts and win 5-0. Attacking player Morelos outperformed all the other players in that fixture and received a match rating of 9.83 out of 10. Morelos scored two goals, served one assist and hit three key passes.

Prior to that, an away loss at Celtic.

Rangers are traveling soon after this match as the Scottish Cup match at Annan Athletic awaits in three days.

Rangers can score goals in their home matches. After 13 league matches they have found the net 28 times. Rangers are not conceding a lot of goals here at Ibrox Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 13 matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Hibernian form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Premiership travels is 3 wins, 4 draws and 5 defeats.

The attacking players of Hibernian have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 238 minutes.

Home advantage was not enough for Hibernian in their previous game as they lost hosting St. Mirren, 0-1. Cadden got a match rating of 7.71 in that game, top player of the team. Cadden hit two key passes.

Preceding that match was the 0-0 draw at home vs Hearts.

The schedule is very tough for Hibernian now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Scottish Cup game at Arbroath is waiting in only four days.

14 goals have been conceded by Hibernian in these games.

Head 2 Head

The contenders have met each other before in this season, with the result Hibernian - Rangers 0-1 logged in the official records. Stats for the last ten meetings featuring these two squads are: eight wins for Rangers, one draw and one win for Hibernian. Over 2,5 goals: seven times; under 2,5 goals: three games.

Top Goalscorers

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

Rangers missing players

Hibernian missing players

Rangers Hibernian
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
25 13 4 Played P 4 12 25
18 10 3 Won W 1 3 8
5 3 1 Drew D 2 4 7
2 0 0 Lost L 1 5 10
53 28 7 Scored S 3 12 26
21 7 2 Conceded C 4 14 28
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 83% 88%
76% 77% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 58% 56%
52% 46% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 42% 40%
28% 23% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 25% 24%
20% 15% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 8% 8%
48% 38% 25% BTTS BTTS 25% 50% 40%
44% 62% 75% Clean Sheets C S 50% 17% 32%
8% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 75% 50% 40%
 
7.8 8.5 9.2 Corners for (avg) C F 3.5 4.6 5.4
3.8 2.5 2.2 Corners against (avg) C A 6.2 5.2 4.9
1.7 1.3 0.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.6 2
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 6 6
 
19.1 21.3 17.5 Shots (avg) S ( 9 10.5 11.4
6.8 7.4 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.2 3.5 3.5
31% 29% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 23% 29% 30%
 
6.5 5.1 4.5 Shots against (avg) S A 14.5 11.1 10.9
2.8 1.9 2.2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.2 4 3.9
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Hibernian have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • 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 Hibernian.
  • Rangers have the most matches over the total-line (11) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most points (33) at home in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most points from losing position (17) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most scored goals in the second half (29) 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 25 19 3 3 54 13 12 10 2 0 28 2 13 9 1 3 26 11 41 60
2 Rangers 25 18 5 2 53 21 13 10 3 0 28 7 12 8 2 2 25 14 32 59
3 Hearts 25 12 7 6 34 25 13 8 3 2 23 10 12 4 4 4 11 15 9 43
4 Motherwell 25 9 6 10 27 37 13 7 2 4 17 19 12 2 4 6 10 18 -10 33
5 Hibernian 25 8 7 10 26 28 13 5 3 5 14 14 12 3 4 5 12 14 -2 31
6 Dundee United 25 8 6 11 19 27 12 6 0 6 10 14 13 2 6 5 9 13 -8 30
7 Aberdeen 24 8 5 11 28 29 11 6 2 3 16 10 13 2 3 8 12 19 -1 29
8 Livingston 25 8 5 12 24 32 12 4 2 6 12 14 13 4 3 6 12 18 -8 29
9 St. Mirren 24 6 11 7 23 33 12 2 7 3 9 10 12 4 4 4 14 23 -10 29
10 Ross County 25 6 8 11 37 43 12 3 5 4 21 22 13 3 3 7 16 21 -6 26
11 St. Johnstone 24 4 7 13 13 28 13 1 5 7 9 17 11 3 2 6 4 11 -15 19
12 Dundee 24 4 6 14 19 41 12 3 4 5 13 18 12 1 2 9 6 23 -22 18

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.