Struggling Ross County will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Rangers in the upcoming league round. It’s 9th vs 1st and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
- Ross County has the most conceded goals in the second half (17) in Premiership
- Rangers has the most scored goals (41) in Premiership
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Europa League.
Ross County form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Premiership this season. Ross County, who have the the worst goal difference (-8) at home in Premiership, have only managed 1 win, 3 draws and 3 losses from their games here at Global Energy Stadium. Two draws in a row at home now for County.
Happy days for County in their previous game, a League Cup match away at Celtic (placed 2nd) that ended with a 2-0 victory. Nobody expected County to beat Celtic in the last match, but sometimes David beats Goliath. Heartbreak before that as County lost 1-3 at Kilmarnock's place.
Despite playing at their own arena the home team are massive underdogs in this game. The home fans will enjoy their drinks and snacks knowing that the chances of a positive outcome are very slim. When County have been in this position before, they have won zero, drawn zero and lost four from four games. three defeats by at least two goals.
County have scored 5 league goals here from 7 matches, not a lot. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 13 goals have been conceded.
Rangers form and stats
Rangers, who have the most scored goals (41) in Premiership, have an excellent away record in the Premiership so far with 5-2-0 from 7 games. Rangers have been producing wins at home as well, producing a total of seven victories in a row regardless of arena. It’s been three wins in a row for Rangers on their travels, an amazing performance which inspire hopes of making this one the fourth consecutive victory.
Rangers have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Allan McGregor. It's been 543 minutes since they last conceded in Premiership.
Rangers had fun at their own home (Global Energy Stadium) last time out, beating Standard Liège 3-2. Scott Arfield, James Tavernier and Connor Goldson scored. Prior to that result Rangers won their away game at Falkirk in the League Cup. The scoreline was 4-0.
As mentioned earlier, Rangers will not be satisfied unless they get a comfortable victory in this game. Performing as huge favourites away from home has earlier resulted in 14 wins (eleven by two or more goals winning margin), two draws and zero surprising defeats.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Rangers manager S. Gerrard as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Lech Poznań.
Rangers are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 13 times in 7 away games so far. Rangers are tight as a drum on their travels, having allowed the opposition only 3 goals away.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have met before this season: Rangers - County 2-0. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: zero - three - seven (County wins - draws - Rangers wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Tavernier 9 goals |  R. Kent 5 goals |  K. Roofe 5 goals |
Ross County missing players
Rangers missing players
| Ross County | Rangers | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 7 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 15 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | 13 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | 5 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 13 | 41 |
| 26 | 13 | 8 | Conceded | C | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 93% | 86% | 67% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 50% | 86% | 93% |
| 67% | 71% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 57% | 80% |
| 47% | 57% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 29% | 47% |
| 27% | 29% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 29% | 33% |
| 7% | 14% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | 13% |
| 40% | 43% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 29% | 13% |
| 27% | 29% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 71% | 87% |
| 40% | 43% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 14% | 7% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 1.9 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.3 | 0.8 |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | 10 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 21.5 | 17.1 | 17.7 |
| 1.9 | 2.3 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 5 | 6.5 |
| 36% | 31% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 37% | 42% |
- Rangers has the fewest conceded goals (3) away in Premiership
- Rangers has the fewest conceded goals (3) in Premiership
- Rangers has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in Premiership
- Rangers has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Premiership
- Rangers has the most clean sheets (13) in Premiership
- Rangers has the most scored goals (41) in Premiership
- Rangers has the most scored goals in the first half (23) in Premiership
- Rangers has the the best goal difference (+38) in Premiership
- Rangers have not yet lost a game.
- Rangers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Rangers have scored more than double the goals of Ross County.
- Rangers is in the best form (6-0-0)
- Ross County has the most conceded goals in the second half (17) in Premiership
- Ross County has the the worst goal difference (-8) at home in Premiership
- Ross County have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Ross County have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than 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 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 41 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 38 | 41 |
| 2 | Celtic | 13 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 34 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 20 | 8 | 21 | 30 |
| 3 | Aberdeen | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 27 |
| 4 | Hibernian | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 21 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 26 |
| 5 | Dundee United | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | -6 | 20 |
| 6 | Kilmarnock | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 18 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 17 |
| 7 | St. Johnstone | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 13 | -6 | 16 |
| 8 | Motherwell | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | -3 | 15 |
| 9 | Ross County | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 26 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 13 | -16 | 13 |
| 10 | Livingston | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 14 | 24 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -10 | 12 |
| 11 | St. Mirren | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -8 | 11 |
| 12 | Hamilton Academical | 14 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 15 | 36 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 25 | -21 | 8 |