St. Johnstone stubborn opponents but Rangers expect victory

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Wed 03.February
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Ibrox Stadium (50817 seats)

1st position in the Premiership table for Rangers so far, a good performance. The home supporters hope for more joy as 8th-placed St. Johnstone visits Ibrox Stadium.

Insights:
  • Rangers has the most scored goals (66) in Premiership
  • St. Johnstone has the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premiership

There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Premiership game only four days ago. That game was also an away game, at Kilmarnock. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.

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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 12-0-0.

Rangers are confident in defense, having played 249 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

Rangers are returning here after visiting Hibernian in a Premiership game and winning with a 1-0 scoreline. Alfredo Morelos scored the goal(s). Before that game, the 5-0 home victory against Ross County.

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

With more than three goals on average, the attacking play of Rangers is on fire here. A stunning 38 from 12 league matches. As for guarding their own goal, Rangers have only let in 1 goal at home. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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St. Johnstone form and stats

As the visiting team in Premiership matches, St. Johnstone, who have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premiership, have produced an overall stat of 3-5-5 so far.

Two travels in a row for St. Johnstone, whose manager C. Davidson could celebrate last time after the Premiership win against Kilmarnock. A draw for Johnstone before that, at their own venue hosting Aberdeen (0-0).

Johnstone can call themselves comeback kings after the match against Kilmarnock. Buried deep in trouble at 0-2, the troops rallied and completely turned the match around to a 3-2 victory. Alistair McCann scored the final goal.

With the home team given a winning probability of about 80% by the bookmakers, any positive result for the visitors would be a surprise. Checking earlier matches with similar odds with Johnstone as the away team, we found three results. Statistics from these were zero away wins, zero draws and three defeats. The outsiders lost three of these games by at least two goals.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Johnstone manager C. Davidson as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Livingston.

Johnstone has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 20 goals from 13 games. Johnstone's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 24 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; St. Johnstone - Rangers 0-3. Last ten meetings between the teams: Rangers won seven, St. Johnstone won one and two draws. nine games with over 2,5 goals, one match with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

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

Rangers missing players

St. Johnstone missing players

Rangers St. Johnstone
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
26 12 3 Played P 3 13 26
23 12 3 Won W 0 3 6
3 0 0 Drew D 2 5 9
0 0 0 Lost L 1 5 11
66 38 9 Scored S 4 20 25
7 1 0 Conceded C 5 24 35
96% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 88%
77% 83% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 92% 62%
50% 58% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 62% 38%
31% 42% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 38% 19%
12% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 23% 12%
23% 8% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 77% 46%
77% 92% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 23%
4% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 23% 42%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
0.8 0.6 0.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 1.8 1.9
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 3 5
 
16.7 17.8 20 Shots (avg) S ( 8.7 10.8 11
6 7.1 9 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.7 3.5 2.7
42% 45% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 80% 43% 36%
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 (11) at home in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most clean sheets (20) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most points (36) at home in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most scored goals (38) at home in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most scored goals (66) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most scored goals in the first half (35) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most scored goals in the second half (31) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the the best goal difference (+37) at home in Premiership
  • Rangers has the the best goal difference (+59) 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 St. Johnstone.
  • 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 (5-1-0)
  • St. Johnstone has the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premiership
  • St. Johnstone have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • St. Johnstone have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • St. Johnstone 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 26 23 3 0 66 7 12 12 0 0 38 1 14 11 3 0 28 6 59 72
2 Celtic 24 14 7 3 51 20 13 8 3 2 26 9 11 6 4 1 25 11 31 49
3 Aberdeen 25 12 8 5 31 24 13 8 2 3 21 14 12 4 6 2 10 10 7 44
4 Hibernian 26 12 7 7 35 25 13 4 5 4 15 17 13 8 2 3 20 8 10 43
5 Livingston 25 10 6 9 32 29 13 5 3 5 15 15 12 5 3 4 17 14 3 36
6 St. Mirren 23 8 5 10 23 26 10 2 4 4 8 13 13 6 1 6 15 13 -3 29
7 Dundee United 26 6 10 10 20 36 14 4 4 6 15 20 12 2 6 4 5 16 -16 28
8 St. Johnstone 26 6 9 11 25 35 13 3 4 6 5 11 13 3 5 5 20 24 -10 27
9 Kilmarnock 25 7 3 15 26 33 12 4 2 6 17 15 13 3 1 9 9 18 -7 24
10 Motherwell 24 5 7 12 21 36 12 2 3 7 10 20 12 3 4 5 11 16 -15 22
11 Ross County 26 5 5 16 19 50 13 2 4 7 11 25 13 3 1 9 8 25 -31 20
12 Hamilton Academical 24 5 4 15 21 49 12 2 3 7 9 20 12 3 1 8 12 29 -28 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.