With the nervous opening game out of the way it’s time for the second Premiership game of the season. Rangers look forward to welcoming St. Mirren in front of their home support.
There haven't been much time to rest for the hosts, as they played a Europa League match only three days ago. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Bayer Leverkusen.
Rangers form and stats
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Allan McGregor not having conceded a league goal in 214 minutes.
In their previous game, the manager S. Gerrard led his Rangers to a defeat in the Europa League match away at Bayer Leverkusen. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Ibrox Stadium. A strong away win before that one, visiting Aberdeen and winning 1-0.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Rangers as they have a new game in only three days, a Premiership match thankfully also at home. St. Johnstone are visiting.
Last season, Rangers's league statistics were 21 wins, 4 draws and 4 losses, resulting in a 2nd position in the Premiership. Over these 29 matches they scored 64 goals and conceded 19. Playing at home last season Rangers managed 11-1-2 (win-draw-lost) with 33 goals and 7 conceded.
St. Mirren form and stats
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Mirren goalkeeper Jak Alnwick is eager to challenge this, with his 180 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
Mirren had fun at their own home (Ibrox Stadium) last time out, beating Livingston 1-0. Richard Tait scored. That result followed a home victory 1-0 versus Hearts.
As mentioned above, the bookmakers do not believe the away team will get anything from this match. Checking St. Mirren's match history for similar games we find one match. The home team won one of these as expected, zero of them by at least two goals. St. Mirren managed zero draws and zero surprise wins.
A new game in only three days for Mirren, the Premiership home match versus Celtic. Busy days.
Let's have a look at how St. Mirren performed last season in the Premiership: They landed a 9th position in the league table after playing out 7 victories, 8 draws and 15 defeats. In total they scored 24 and conceded 41 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 2 - drew 2 and lost 11 with 11/28 goals scored/conceded.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Rangers won nine games, one match ended with a draw and St. Mirren has zero wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: four / sixTop Goalscorers
  R. Kent 1 goals |   R. Tait 1 goals |
Rangers missing players
St. Mirren missing players
| Rangers | St. Mirren | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | 0 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 33% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| Rangers | Last season | St. Mirren | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 29 | 14 | Played | P | 15 | 30 | ||
| 21 | 11 | Won | W | 2 | 7 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 8 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 11 | 15 | ||
| 64 | 33 | Scored | S | 11 | 24 | ||
| 19 | 7 | Conceded | C | 28 | 41 | ||
| 97% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 83% | ||
| 76% | 64% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 57% | ||
| 59% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 53% | 43% | ||
| 34% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 20% | 13% | ||
| 14% | 29% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 13% | 10% | ||
| 41% | 29% | BTTS | BTTS | 47% | 40% | ||
| 52% | 57% | Clean Sheets | C S | 13% | 33% | ||
| 10% | 21% | Failed to Score | F T | 47% | 43% | ||
| 8 | 10.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.9 | 4.6 | ||
| 2.8 | 2.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.7 | 6.3 | ||
| 1.2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 1.5 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 481 | 243 | Total Shots | T S | 130 | 280 | ||
| 194 | 99 | Shots on Target | S O | 48 | 87 | ||
| 33% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 23% | 28% | ||
| 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| 2 | Hibernian | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Rangers | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Ross County | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | St. Mirren | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Dundee United | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | St. Johnstone | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Kilmarnock | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 9 | Aberdeen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 10 | Livingston | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 11 | Motherwell | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 12 | Hamilton Academical | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | -4 | 0 |
| Last season | 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 | 30 | 26 | 2 | 2 | 89 | 19 | 15 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 50 | 7 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 39 | 12 | 70 | 80 |
| 2 | Rangers | 29 | 21 | 4 | 4 | 64 | 19 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 33 | 7 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 31 | 12 | 45 | 67 |
| 3 | Motherwell | 30 | 14 | 4 | 12 | 41 | 38 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 23 | 23 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 46 |
| 4 | Aberdeen | 30 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 40 | 36 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 23 | 19 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 17 | 4 | 45 |
| 5 | Livingston | 30 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 41 | 39 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 8 | 16 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 22 | 31 | 2 | 39 |
| 6 | Hibernian | 30 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 42 | 49 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 26 | 22 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 16 | 27 | -7 | 37 |
| 7 | St. Johnstone | 29 | 8 | 12 | 9 | 28 | 46 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 19 | 26 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 20 | -18 | 36 |
| 8 | Kilmarnock | 30 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 31 | 41 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 20 | 15 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 11 | 26 | -10 | 33 |
| 9 | St. Mirren | 30 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 24 | 41 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 28 | -17 | 29 |
| 10 | Ross County | 30 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 29 | 60 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 23 | 16 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 37 | -31 | 29 |
| 11 | Hamilton Academical | 30 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 30 | 50 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 16 | 26 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 24 | -20 | 27 |
| 12 | Hearts | 30 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 31 | 52 | 15 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 19 | 23 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 29 | -21 | 23 |