Premiership prediction: Rangers should edge out St. Mirren on their own turf

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 06.March
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Ibrox Stadium (50817 seats)

Rangers perform at a high level so far being 1st in the table. St. Mirren can look both up and down from their 6th position.

Insights:
  • Rangers have the most scored goals (74) in Premiership
  • St. Mirren have the fewest matches over the total-line (8) in Premiership

The hosts Rangers saw competitive action as recent as three days ago, playing in the Premiership. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Livingston.

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Rangers form and stats

Rangers, who have the most scored goals (74) in Premiership, have been very solid at home in the Premiership so far, with 45 points collected from 15 matches (15-0-0). This has contributed greatly to their 1st position in the table.

A good away victory last time out for Rangers, who won 1-0 against Livingston (placed 5th). Before that, Rangers had a Europa League home game versus Antwerp which ended with a victory 5-2.

Rangers are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Ibrox Stadium in their league games, having scored an impressive 44 goals in 15 matches. Defensively Rangers have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (2 in 15 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. It's worth mentioning that 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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St. Mirren form and stats

As the visiting team in Premiership matches, St. Mirren have produced an overall stat of 6-2-6 so far.

Mirren have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Jak Alnwick. It's been 262 minutes since they last conceded in Premiership.

Jamie McGrath scored in St. Mirren's previous match, the home game against Ross County that ended 1-0. Preceding that match was the 0-0 draw at home vs Motherwell.

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 Mirren as the away team, we found two results. Statistics from these were zero away wins, zero draws and two defeats. The outsiders lost one of these games by at least two goals.

Mirren have scored 15 goals on their travels this season, from 14 away games in the league. Mirren are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 13 times in 14 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; St. Mirren - Rangers 0-2. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's eight Rangers victories, one draw and one St. Mirren win. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches 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
9 goals

Rangers missing players

St. Mirren missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Rangers St. Mirren
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
31 15 5 Played P 4 14 31
27 15 5 Won W 1 6 10
4 0 0 Drew D 1 2 9
0 0 0 Lost L 2 6 12
74 44 14 Scored S 3 15 29
9 2 1 Conceded C 4 13 34
97% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 93% 90%
71% 73% 80% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 50% 61%
45% 53% 60% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 36% 32%
29% 40% 40% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 7% 10%
13% 20% 20% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 7% 6%
26% 13% 20% BTTS BTTS 50% 36% 42%
74% 87% 80% Clean Sheets C S 25% 36% 32%
3% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 36% 35%
 
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 0.6 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.6 1.7
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 3 5
 
16.1 16.8 14.8 Shots (avg) S ( 8.5 10.1 10.9
5.9 6.9 6.6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.6 3.4
41% 42% 42% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 30% 28%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • 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. Mirren.
  • Rangers have the fewest conceded goals (2) at home in Premiership
  • Rangers have the fewest conceded goals (9) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (5) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the fewest dropped points from leading position (4) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most clean sheets (13) at home in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most clean sheets (23) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most points (45) at home in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most scored goals (44) at home in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most scored goals (74) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most scored goals in the first half (38) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the the best goal difference (+42) at home in Premiership
  • Rangers have the the best goal difference (+65) in Premiership
  • 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. Mirren have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • St. Mirren have the fewest matches over the total-line (8) in Premiership

  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 31 27 4 0 74 9 15 15 0 0 44 2 16 12 4 0 30 7 65 85
2 Celtic 31 20 7 4 65 23 16 11 3 2 30 10 15 9 4 2 35 13 42 67
3 Hibernian 30 15 7 8 41 28 16 6 5 5 19 19 14 9 2 3 22 9 13 52
4 Aberdeen 31 13 9 9 32 30 16 9 3 4 22 16 15 4 6 5 10 14 2 48
5 Livingston 30 11 7 12 36 36 15 5 3 7 16 18 15 6 4 5 20 18 0 40
6 St. Mirren 31 10 9 12 29 34 17 4 7 6 14 21 14 6 2 6 15 13 -5 39
7 Dundee United 31 8 11 12 28 43 15 5 4 6 18 20 16 3 7 6 10 23 -15 35
8 St. Johnstone 31 8 10 13 32 40 14 3 4 7 6 13 17 5 6 6 26 27 -8 34
9 Motherwell 31 8 8 15 28 46 15 3 3 9 13 28 16 5 5 6 15 18 -18 32
10 Ross County 30 7 5 18 22 54 15 3 4 8 12 27 15 4 1 10 10 27 -32 26
11 Kilmarnock 31 7 4 20 27 43 15 4 3 8 18 21 16 3 1 12 9 22 -16 25
12 Hamilton Academical 30 6 7 17 29 57 15 2 5 8 12 24 15 4 2 9 17 33 -28 25

Table
  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 31 27 4 0 74 9 15 15 0 0 44 2 16 12 4 0 30 7 65 85
2 Celtic 31 20 7 4 65 23 16 11 3 2 30 10 15 9 4 2 35 13 42 67
3 Hibernian 30 15 7 8 41 28 16 6 5 5 19 19 14 9 2 3 22 9 13 52
4 Aberdeen 31 13 9 9 32 30 16 9 3 4 22 16 15 4 6 5 10 14 2 48
5 Livingston 30 11 7 12 36 36 15 5 3 7 16 18 15 6 4 5 20 18 0 40
6 St. Mirren 31 10 9 12 29 34 17 4 7 6 14 21 14 6 2 6 15 13 -5 39
7 Dundee United 31 8 11 12 28 43 15 5 4 6 18 20 16 3 7 6 10 23 -15 35
8 St. Johnstone 31 8 10 13 32 40 14 3 4 7 6 13 17 5 6 6 26 27 -8 34
9 Motherwell 31 8 8 15 28 46 15 3 3 9 13 28 16 5 5 6 15 18 -18 32
10 Ross County 30 7 5 18 22 54 15 3 4 8 12 27 15 4 1 10 10 27 -32 26
11 Kilmarnock 31 7 4 20 27 43 15 4 3 8 18 21 16 3 1 12 9 22 -16 25
12 Hamilton Academical 30 6 7 17 29 57 15 2 5 8 12 24 15 4 2 9 17 33 -28 25

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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.