St. Johnstone not looking forward to difficult Premiership clash against Rangers

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sun 06.November
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: McDiarmid Park (10696 seats)

Premiership: Two squads in fair shape get together for this fixture. Rangers might have a small upper hand with their 2nd place in the table?

Insights:
  • St. Johnstone have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Rangers is in the best form (5-1-0) in Premiership

St. Johnstone and Rangers should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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St. Johnstone form and stats

St. Johnstone have played 6 Premiership games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-1-3 (wins-draws-losses).

The St. Johnstone regulars enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Kilmarnock and win 1-0. Matthews, who guards the goal, was given a match rating of 7.15 out of 10 in that game. Matthews topped it up with a clean sheet.

In the game before, an away victory match versus Hibernian with a 2-1 scoreline.

No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Johnstone had similar winning odds as today, and found 5 games. In these, the hosts won 0, drew 0 and lost 5. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that St. Johnstone lost 2 similar games by at least two goals.

The manager Davidson will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to St. Mirren in only three days.

St. Johnstone have scored {5 league goals} here from 6 matches, not a lot. St. Johnstone have only conceded 4 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Rangers form and stats

Playing away, Rangers have won 3 games, drawn 1 and suffered 1 defeat in the Premiership this season. Rangers love their trips these days, as their two previous away games have resulted in victories.

This match can not go any worse than the previous one, a Champions League home loss versus Ajax with 1-3 on the scoreboard. Davis got a match rating of 7.04 in that game, top player of the team. Davis had 36 successful passes (of 43 total).

A home win before that, celebrating 4-1 vs Aberdeen.

Goal-happy betting people should observe that 9 of this team's 10 latest league rounds have ended with three goals or more.

After this away game Rangers return home for a Premiership game against Hearts. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Rangers have conceded 8 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Rangers have been victorious in all of the 4 most recent games against this opponent. Will the streak continue?

This isn't the first time these sides meet this campaign, as the records show this recent game: Rangers - Johnstone 4-0.

Top Goalscorers

RangersJ. Tavernier
J. Tavernier
4 goals
RangersJ. Lundstram
J. Lundstram
4 goals

St. Johnstone missing players

Rangers missing players

St. Johnstone Rangers
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
13 6 3 Played P 2 5 12
5 2 0 Won W 2 3 9
1 1 0 Drew D 0 1 2
7 3 3 Lost L 0 1 1
14 5 1 Scored S 6 10 31
17 4 4 Conceded C 1 8 11
92% 83% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
62% 33% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 100%
62% 33% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 100% 83%
15% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 60% 58%
8% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 8%
46% 17% 33% BTTS BTTS 50% 60% 50%
23% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 20% 42%
38% 50% 67% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 8%
 
2.9 3.2 3.3 Corners for (avg) C F 5 5 7.6
6.1 6.7 7.3 Corners against (avg) C A 4 3.2 2.9
3.1 3.5 3.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 3 2
1 1 1 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
8.5 8.5 5.7 Shots (avg) S ( 14.5 13.6 19.5
2.8 2.2 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.5 4.6 6.2
38% 38% 17% Goal Efficiency G E 46% 43% 41%
 
14.2 12 14.7 Shots against (avg) S A 6 7.6 6.5
3.9 3.2 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 1.5 3 2.3
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • All of Rangers's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • Rangers have created more than twice as many corners as St. Johnstone.
  • 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 fewest conceded goals in the second half (5) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the fewest matches under the total-line (2) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most matches over the total-line (10) in Premiership
  • Rangers have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Rangers have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Rangers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Rangers is in the best form (5-1-0) in Premiership
  • St. Johnstone have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.

  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 12 11 0 1 42 9 5 5 0 0 16 2 7 6 0 1 26 7 33 33
2 Rangers 12 9 2 1 31 11 7 6 1 0 21 3 5 3 1 1 10 8 20 29
3 Hibernian 13 6 2 5 17 16 7 4 2 1 12 6 6 2 0 4 5 10 1 20
4 Aberdeen 12 6 1 5 23 20 5 4 0 1 17 5 7 2 1 4 6 15 3 19
5 St. Mirren 12 6 1 5 12 17 7 5 1 1 8 3 5 1 0 4 4 14 -5 19
6 Hearts 12 5 2 5 20 21 5 3 0 2 12 12 7 2 2 3 8 9 -1 17
7 Motherwell 13 5 1 7 16 16 6 1 1 4 4 9 7 4 0 3 12 7 0 16
8 St. Johnstone 13 5 1 7 14 17 6 2 1 3 5 4 7 3 0 4 9 13 -3 16
9 Livingston 12 5 1 6 9 16 7 4 0 3 6 7 5 1 1 3 3 9 -7 16
10 Kilmarnock 13 3 3 7 9 20 6 3 2 1 8 10 7 0 1 6 1 10 -11 12
11 Dundee United 13 2 3 8 11 26 7 2 0 5 6 16 6 0 3 3 5 10 -15 9
12 Ross County 13 2 3 8 7 22 7 1 2 4 5 14 6 1 1 4 2 8 -15 9

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.