A short peek at the Premiership standings hint of an edge to Rangers when they visit St. Johnstone. Nevertheless; let's play before we elect a winner!
- St. Johnstone have the fewest scored goals (18) in Premiership
- Rangers have the most points from losing position (18) in Premiership
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
St. Johnstone form and stats
With 2 Premiership wins, 5 draws and 7 defeats from their home games, St. Johnstone are certainly not brimming with confidence.
St. Johnstone faced defeat in their previous match, away at Ross County (1-3). The versatile forward Hendry outperformed all teammates in that fixture and was awarded a match rating of 7.32 out of 10. Hendry scored one goal and dribled past the opponent 3 of 5 times.
Before that, Johnstone had a home game versus Hearts which ended with a victory 2-1.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for St. Johnstone as they are travelling to their away game against Hibernian in the Premiership. That match is three days after this one.
Johnstone aren't scoring a lot here at McDiarmid Park in the league, with only 11 goals from 14 games. 18 goals have been conceded. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches. When St. Johnstone hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Aberdeen, Ross County and Dundee), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 3 of 4 times.
Rangers form and stats
The away team have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 8 wins, 3 draws and only 2 losses in the Premiership.
Rangers delivered a 2-2 draw playing at home against Motherwell (placed 6th) in their previous game. Tavernier was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 8.35. The defender Tavernier hit six key passes and won 6 of 10 duels.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Aberdeen in just three days.
Rangers have conceded 15 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
St. Johnstone and Rangers have played each other before this season: Rangers - St. Johnstone 2-0. Statistics for the previous ten meetings involving these two contenders are: zero wins for St. Johnstone, four draws and six wins for Rangers. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.Top Goalscorers
  A. Morelos Aviléz 12 goals |  J. Aribo 7 goals |  J. Sakala 7 goals |
St. Johnstone missing players
Rangers missing players
| St. Johnstone | Rangers | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 28 | 14 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 13 | 28 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 8 | 19 |
| 8 | 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 15 | 7 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 18 | 11 | 5 | Scored | S | 9 | 26 | 58 |
| 35 | 18 | 7 | Conceded | C | 6 | 15 | 24 |
| 82% | 79% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 61% | 64% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 77% | 79% |
| 36% | 50% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 54% | 50% |
| 11% | 14% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 31% | 29% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 23% | 18% |
| 43% | 57% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 62% | 50% |
| 25% | 21% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 23% | 43% |
| 50% | 43% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 15% | 7% |
| 4.8 | 5.4 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 8 | 7.3 | 8.1 |
| 5.8 | 6.1 | 8.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.2 | 5.3 | 3.9 |
| 2.5 | 2.7 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.1 | 1.8 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 9.2 | 9.3 | 7.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 18 | 17.5 | 19.8 |
| 2.6 | 2.7 | 2.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.8 | 5.8 | 6.7 |
| 24% | 29% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 34% | 31% |
| 14.2 | 14.1 | 19.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.2 | 7.8 | 6.6 |
| 4.4 | 4.3 | 5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 3.5 | 2.8 |
- Rangers have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Rangers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Rangers have scored more than double the goals of St. Johnstone.
- Rangers have the most points from losing position (18) in Premiership
- Rangers have the most scored goals in the second half (31) in Premiership
- Rangers have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Rangers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- St. Johnstone have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- St. Johnstone have the fewest points (11) at home in Premiership
- St. Johnstone have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Premiership
- St. Johnstone have the fewest scored goals (18) in Premiership
- St. Johnstone have the fewest scored goals in the second half (6) in Premiership
- St. Johnstone have the most dropped points from leading position (18) 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 | Celtic | 28 | 21 | 4 | 3 | 60 | 17 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 4 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 29 | 13 | 43 | 67 |
| 2 | Rangers | 28 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 58 | 24 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 32 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 26 | 15 | 34 | 64 |
| 3 | Hearts | 28 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 38 | 29 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 17 | 9 | 46 |
| 4 | Hibernian | 28 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 28 | 30 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 16 | 14 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 16 | -2 | 35 |
| 5 | Dundee United | 28 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 23 | 29 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 15 | 14 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 14 | -6 | 35 |
| 6 | Motherwell | 28 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 30 | 42 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 20 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 22 | -12 | 35 |
| 7 | Livingston | 28 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 30 | 34 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 15 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 19 | -4 | 34 |
| 8 | St. Mirren | 27 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 26 | 37 | 14 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 24 | -11 | 33 |
| 9 | Aberdeen | 28 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 33 | 35 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 15 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 20 | -2 | 32 |
| 10 | Ross County | 28 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 41 | 47 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 25 | 24 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 16 | 23 | -6 | 30 |
| 11 | St. Johnstone | 28 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 18 | 35 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 17 | -17 | 23 |
| 12 | Dundee | 27 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 23 | 49 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 22 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 27 | -26 | 21 |
