Rangers expected to show superhero qualities when Motherwell visits

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Wed 28.December
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Ibrox Stadium (50817 seats)

Only three points will be enough for the Rangers followers in this Ibrox Stadium duel with Motherwell, as they enjoy a healthy lead on the opposition in the Premiership table.

Insights:
  • Rangers have the most points from losing position (14) in Premiership
  • Motherwell haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Rangers form and stats

This stadium, Ibrox Stadium, has been a fortress for Rangers in the Premiership so far this season with the win-draw-loss statistic 8-1-0. Rangers are on a three game winning streak in their home games.

Rangers enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Ross County's place. The match ended 1-0 with Lundstram scoring. McLaughlin, who guards the goal, was given a match rating of 7.61 out of 10 in that game. McLaughlin topped it up with a clean sheet.

In the game before, an away victory match versus Aberdeen with a 3-2 scoreline.

Goal party? Who knows about this one, but we do know that 12 of the 16 latest league games with this side has had at least three goals.

Rangers are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (25 goals in 9 games). Rangers are not conceding a lot of goals here at Ibrox Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 5 from 9 matches. It's worth mentioning that 3 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Motherwell form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Premiership travels is 4 wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats.

Motherwell's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Kilmarnock that finished 2-2. It looked so good for Motherwell vs Kilmarnock, but the job was not completed and victory was lost as a 2-0 lead was turned into a 2-2 draw. Midfield player Slattery was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.82/10. Slattery scored one goal and hit three key passes.

A loss against Celtic was the result prior to that, in a home game.

With the host team identified as having a winning chance of about 80% by the bookies, any favourable result for the guesting team would be a surprise. Researching earlier games with similar odds and Motherwell as the away team, we found 6 results. Statistics from these were 0 away wins, 2 draws and 4 defeats. The visitors lost 2 of these matches by at least two goals.

Motherwell has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 15 goals from 9 games. As opposed to that, Motherwell have seen the ball go into their own net 11 times on the road. Motherwell has visited these top teams three times, and 3 of 3 has ended with 2 goals or more!

Head 2 Head

Rangers have won or drawn the last 15 matches (10-5-0) versus Motherwell.

The records show that this isn''t the first time these sides meet this season, as the fixture list show this recent game: Motherwell - Rangers 1-2.

Top Goalscorers

MotherwellK. van Veen
K. van Veen
8 goals
RangersJ. Tavernier
J. Tavernier
6 goals

Rangers missing players

Motherwell missing players

Rangers Motherwell
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
18 9 3 Played P 3 9 17
13 8 3 Won W 1 4 5
3 1 0 Drew D 0 1 3
2 0 0 Lost L 2 4 9
41 25 8 Scored S 6 15 22
18 5 1 Conceded C 7 11 24
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 94%
89% 89% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 71%
72% 67% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 56% 65%
50% 56% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 33% 24%
17% 22% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 67% 33% 18%
56% 44% 33% BTTS BTTS 100% 56% 59%
39% 56% 67% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 29%
6% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 11% 18%
 
7.8 9 7.3 Corners for (avg) C F 9 5.8 5.4
2.9 3.1 2.7 Corners against (avg) C A 6 6.6 5.2
1.9 1.4 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.8 2.5
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
18.1 22.4 21 Shots (avg) S ( 15 11.6 12.1
6.1 7.2 7.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.7 3.7 3.4
38% 38% 35% Goal Efficiency G E 55% 45% 38%
 
7.1 6.3 5.7 Shots against (avg) S A 14.7 13.2 10.9
2.3 2 1.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.7 3.4 3.2
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Motherwell haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • 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 the fewest conceded goals (5) at home in Premiership
  • Rangers have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (8) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most clean sheets (5) at home in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most points from losing position (14) 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 18 17 0 1 57 15 9 9 0 0 28 7 9 8 0 1 29 8 42 51
2 Rangers 18 13 3 2 41 18 9 8 1 0 25 5 9 5 2 2 16 13 23 42
3 Aberdeen 18 8 1 9 32 30 9 6 0 3 24 10 9 2 1 6 8 20 2 25
4 Hearts 17 7 4 6 29 28 8 5 1 2 19 16 9 2 3 4 10 12 1 25
5 St. Mirren 16 7 3 6 20 24 10 6 3 1 14 7 6 1 0 5 6 17 -4 24
6 St. Johnstone 18 7 3 8 22 26 8 3 2 3 8 6 10 4 1 5 14 20 -4 24
7 Hibernian 18 7 2 9 24 26 9 5 2 2 16 8 9 2 0 7 8 18 -2 23
8 Livingston 17 7 2 8 16 26 8 5 0 3 8 8 9 2 2 5 8 18 -10 23
9 Motherwell 17 5 3 9 22 24 8 1 2 5 7 13 9 4 1 4 15 11 -2 18
10 Kilmarnock 18 4 4 10 15 32 8 4 2 2 11 13 10 0 2 8 4 19 -17 16
11 Ross County 18 4 3 11 14 29 10 2 2 6 9 19 8 2 1 5 5 10 -15 15
12 Dundee United 17 3 4 10 19 33 9 3 1 5 12 18 8 0 3 5 7 15 -14 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.