Can Ross County surprise Rangers in their own stadium?

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 23.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Ibrox Stadium (50817 seats)

Only a win will satisfy the Rangers supporters in this Ibrox Stadium clash with Ross County, having a healthy lead on the opposition in the Premiership table.

Insights:
  • Rangers has the most scored goals (60) in Premiership
  • Ross County has the most conceded goals in the second half (27) in Premiership

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Rangers form and stats

Rangers, who have the most scored goals (60) in Premiership, have been very solid at home in the Premiership so far, with 33 points collected from 11 matches (11-0-0). This has contributed greatly to their 1st position in the table.

Rangers manager S. Gerrard and his team return home after a 1-1 draw away versus Motherwell (placed 11th) in the Premiership. A strong away win before that one, visiting Aberdeen and winning 2-1.

The hometeam coach S. Gerrard made a successful contribution in the game against Motherwell, bringing on Cédric Itten who scored the equalizer in the 1-1 draw.

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

Rangers are traveling soon after this match as the Premiership match at Hibernian awaits in four days.

Goals are plentiful at Ibrox Stadium in the league this season as Rangers has scored 33 goals here in 11 home 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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Ross County form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Ross County so far with only 10 points returning home. The records show 3-1-8 (win-draw-lose).

Impressive finishing from Oli Shaw (2), Charlie Lakin and Jermaine Hylton secured the home win 4-1 against Aberdeen in their previous game. Preceding that game, the 1-3 loss visiting Livingston's place.

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

A new game in only four days for Ross County, the Premiership home match versus Motherwell. Busy days.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting County as they have only managed to score 8 times from 12 away games in the league. County's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 20 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

Rangers and Ross County have met before this season: Ross County - Rangers 0-4. Rangers-Ross County H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Rangers eight wins, Ross County zero wins, two draws. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

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

Rangers missing players

Ross County missing players

Rangers Ross County
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
24 11 3 Played P 3 12 24
21 11 3 Won W 1 3 5
3 0 0 Drew D 0 1 5
0 0 0 Lost L 2 8 14
60 33 14 Scored S 2 8 18
7 1 1 Conceded C 4 20 43
96% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 96%
79% 82% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 79%
50% 55% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 33% 42%
29% 36% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 29%
8% 9% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 8%
25% 9% 33% BTTS BTTS 0% 33% 38%
75% 91% 67% Clean Sheets C S 33% 25% 21%
4% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 67% 42% 46%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
0.8 0.5 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.7 2 2.1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 5
 
16.3 16.7 14.3 Shots (avg) S ( 4.7 8.2 8.5
5.9 6.7 7.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.7 1.8 2.3
43% 45% 61% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 36% 33%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Rangers has the fewest conceded goals (1) at home in Premiership
  • Rangers has the fewest conceded goals (7) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (3) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most clean sheets (10) at home in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most clean sheets (18) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most points (33) at home in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most scored goals (33) at home in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most scored goals (60) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most scored goals in the first half (32) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the the best goal difference (+32) at home in Premiership
  • Rangers has the the best goal difference (+53) 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 scored more than double the goals of Ross County.
  • Rangers have won all their matches at home so far.
  • Rangers haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Ross County has the most conceded goals in the second half (27) in Premiership
  • Ross County have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Ross County haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  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 24 21 3 0 60 7 11 11 0 0 33 1 13 10 3 0 27 6 53 66
2 Celtic 21 13 6 2 46 16 11 7 3 1 23 7 10 6 3 1 23 9 30 45
3 Hibernian 24 11 7 6 33 24 12 4 5 3 15 16 12 7 2 3 18 8 9 40
4 Aberdeen 22 11 6 5 29 24 12 7 2 3 19 14 10 4 4 2 10 10 5 39
5 Livingston 22 9 4 9 28 27 10 4 1 5 11 13 12 5 3 4 17 14 1 31
6 Dundee United 24 6 10 8 19 29 12 4 4 4 14 13 12 2 6 4 5 16 -10 28
7 Kilmarnock 23 7 3 13 24 28 11 4 2 5 15 12 12 3 1 8 9 16 -4 24
8 St. Mirren 21 6 5 10 16 24 10 2 4 4 8 13 11 4 1 6 8 11 -8 23
9 St. Johnstone 24 5 8 11 22 33 12 3 3 6 5 11 12 2 5 5 17 22 -11 23
10 Ross County 24 5 5 14 18 43 12 2 4 6 10 23 12 3 1 8 8 20 -25 20
11 Motherwell 22 4 7 11 19 33 12 2 3 7 10 20 10 2 4 4 9 13 -14 19
12 Hamilton Academical 23 5 4 14 21 47 12 2 3 7 9 20 11 3 1 7 12 27 -26 19

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.