Sports bettors believe Rangers will beat Hibernian at Ibrox Stadium

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 26.December
Match begins: 12:30 (UTC)
Venue: Ibrox Stadium (50817 seats)

Both teams are enjoying a good season so far and games like this could be decisive. Here's the preview for Rangers - Hibernian!

Insights:
  • Rangers has the most scored goals (53) in Premiership
  • Hibernian have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.

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

Rangers, who have the most scored goals (53) in Premiership, have been very solid at home in the Premiership so far, with 27 points collected from 9 matches (9-0-0). This has contributed greatly to their 1st position in the table. The team is doing great wherever they are playing as Rangers has won eleven games in a row. The Hibernian match was the last time out without a victory.

Rangers are returning here after visiting St. Johnstone in a Premiership game and winning with a 3-0 scoreline. Ianis Hagi, Kemar Roofe and Glen Kamara scored the goal(s). Before that game, the 3-1 home victory against Motherwell.

Rangers are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found six matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won six, drew zero and lost zero.

There will be little rest for Rangers after this match as they are travelling to St. Mirren for a Premiership game in only four days.

Rangers always seem capable of creating a buzz here at Ibrox Stadium with 31 goals in 9 league games. As for guarding their own goal, Rangers have only let in 1 goal at home. It's worth mentioning that 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Hibernian form and stats

Hibernian's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Hibernian collect 22 points from their 10 away matches in the Premiership. 7 victories and 1 draw have created these points (and only 2 defeats). It could be a hat trick of victories away for Hibernian, as they have won on their previous two travels.

Hibernian won their last game, 1-0 versus St. Mirren played at home. Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Dundee United.

You'll want to know how Hibernian managed when outsiders such as today. Our database found three similar matches resulting in zero away wins, zero draws and three home wins.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Ross County in just four days.

Hibernian has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 17 goals from 10 games. It's not easy to score on Hibernian as they have only conceded 6 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Hibernian - Rangers 2-2. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Rangers victories, five draws and one Hibernian win. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

RangersJ. Tavernier
J. Tavernier
11 goals
HibernianK. Nisbet
K. Nisbet
10 goals
RangersK. Roofe
K. Roofe
9 goals

Rangers missing players

Hibernian missing players

Rangers Hibernian
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
19 9 1 Played P 2 10 19
17 9 1 Won W 0 7 10
2 0 0 Drew D 0 1 6
0 0 0 Lost L 2 2 3
53 31 4 Scored S 0 17 30
5 1 0 Conceded C 5 6 17
95% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 90% 89%
84% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 60% 63%
58% 67% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 50% 53%
37% 44% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 32%
11% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 10% 11%
21% 11% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 10% 37%
79% 89% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 70% 47%
5% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 30% 26%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
0.7 0.3 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 1.5 1.6
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
16.9 17.7 16 Shots (avg) S ( 8 12.6 11.7
6.3 7.7 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.5 3.9 4
44% 45% 67% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 44% 39%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • All of Rangers's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Hibernian have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
  • Rangers has the fewest conceded goals (1) at home in Premiership
  • Rangers has the fewest conceded goals (5) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most clean sheets (15) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most clean sheets (8) at home in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most points (27) at home in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most scored goals (31) at home in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most scored goals (53) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most scored goals in the first half (28) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most scored goals in the second half (25) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the the best goal difference (+30) at home in Premiership
  • Rangers has the the best goal difference (+48) in Premiership
  • 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 in all their home matches so far.
  • Rangers have won all their matches at home so far.
  • Rangers haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Rangers is in the best form (6-0-0)

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Rangers 19 17 2 0 53 5 9 9 0 0 31 1 10 8 2 0 22 4 48 53
2 Celtic 16 11 4 1 39 14 8 6 1 1 19 6 8 5 3 0 20 8 25 37
3 Hibernian 19 10 6 3 30 17 9 3 5 1 13 11 10 7 1 2 17 6 13 36
4 Aberdeen 18 10 5 3 25 17 9 6 1 2 16 11 9 4 4 1 9 6 8 35
5 Dundee United 19 6 6 7 16 23 10 4 2 4 11 10 9 2 4 3 5 13 -7 24
6 Motherwell 19 6 4 9 22 25 10 2 2 6 9 17 9 4 2 3 13 8 -3 22
7 Livingston 18 6 3 9 20 25 9 3 1 5 8 12 9 3 2 4 12 13 -5 21
8 St. Mirren 18 5 3 10 12 25 10 2 3 5 7 16 8 3 0 5 5 9 -13 18
9 Kilmarnock 19 5 2 12 18 26 9 3 1 5 11 12 10 2 1 7 7 14 -8 17
10 St. Johnstone 19 4 5 10 17 28 10 2 2 6 4 11 9 2 3 4 13 17 -11 17
11 Hamilton Academical 19 5 2 12 21 42 9 1 2 6 6 17 10 4 0 6 15 25 -21 17
12 Ross County 19 3 4 12 10 36 9 1 3 5 5 19 10 2 1 7 5 17 -26 13

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.