Premiership preview with statistics: St. Johnstone welcomes Rangers to McDiarmid Park

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sat 11.September
Match begins: 11:30 (UTC)
Venue: McDiarmid Park (10696 seats)

Let's look at this intriguing game in the Premiership. St. Johnstone is in the 8th position after featuring in four fixtures. They greet Rangers who are placed 3rd after four matches.

Insights:
  • St. Johnstone have the fewest scored goals (1) in Premiership

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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St. Johnstone form and stats

Two Premiership home games so far for St. Johnstone, who are yet to win here at McDiarmid Park. Only 1 point so far.

St. Johnstone haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 236 minutes ago. S. O'Donnell (own goal) scored that one.

Johnstone travelled for their previous game, a trip to St. Mirren that ended 0-0. Midfielder Alistair McCann was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.83 (out of ten) in that game. McCann hit one key pass and dribled passed the opponent 1 of 2 times.

Before that game, the home loss against Dundee United with the scoreline 0-1.

St. Johnstone has scored 1 goal so far and conceded 2 goals from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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Rangers form and stats

Things could have gone better for Rangers in their Premiership away matches, but 3 points from 2 games is all right.

Rangers go into this game after a win, the home game against Celtic that ended 1-0. Robby McCrorie was the team player of the game with the player rating of 7.64. The agile goalkeeper McCrorie stopped the opponent with three saves and topped it up with a clean sheet.

A 0-0 draw at Alashkert's stadium before that.

4 goals so far away for Rangers, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 3. All from 2 league matches away.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Johnstone zero wins, four draws and Rangers six victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

RangersF. Helander
F. Helander
1 goals
RangersC. Goldson
C. Goldson
1 goals
RangersI. Hagi
I. Hagi
1 goals

St. Johnstone missing players

Rangers missing players

St. Johnstone Rangers
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
4 2 0 Played P 1 2 4
0 0 0 Won W 0 1 3
3 1 0 Drew D 0 0 0
1 1 0 Lost L 1 1 1
1 1 0 Scored S 0 4 8
2 2 0 Conceded C 1 3 3
50% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
25% 50% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 50% 50%
0% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 50%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 50% 25%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 50% 25%
25% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 25%
50% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 50%
75% 50% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 50% 25%
 
5.8 7.5 0 Corners for (avg) C F 8 9.5 7.5
3 5 0 Corners against (avg) C A 5 3.5 3
1.8 1.5 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.5 0.8
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
13.5 14.5 0 Shots (avg) S ( 15 18.5 17
3.8 4 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 5.5 5.8
7% 12% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 36% 35%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • St. Johnstone have the fewest conceded goals (2) in Premiership
  • St. Johnstone have the fewest scored goals (1) in Premiership
St. Johnstone Last season Rangers
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
38 19   Played P   19 38
11 5   Won W   13 32
12 6   Drew D   6 6
15 8   Lost L   0 0
36 9   Scored S   35 92
46 15   Conceded C   9 13
89% 79%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   95% 97%
58% 32%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   74% 76%
37% 16%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   37% 50%
16% 0%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   16% 29%
8% 0%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   5% 13%
42% 21%   BTTS BTTS   42% 32%
29% 47%   Clean Sheets C S   58% 68%
39% 53%   Failed to Score F T   5% 3%
 
4.6 5.1   Corners for (avg) C F   5.6 6.5
4.5 4.1   Corners against (avg) C A   3.5 3.5
1.6 1.6   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.2 1
5 2   Red cards R C   0 0
 
11.1 11.1   Shots (avg) S (   14.3 14.9
2.9 2.2   Shots on Target (avg) S O   4.7 5.6
32% 21%   Goal Efficiency G E   39% 43%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Hibernian 4 3 1 0 10 4 2 2 0 0 5 0 2 1 1 0 5 4 6 10
2 Hearts 4 3 1 0 7 3 2 1 1 0 3 2 2 2 0 0 4 1 4 10
3 Rangers 4 3 0 1 8 3 2 2 0 0 4 0 2 1 0 1 4 3 5 9
4 Aberdeen 4 2 2 0 6 3 2 1 1 0 3 1 2 1 1 0 3 2 3 8
5 Motherwell 4 2 1 1 6 5 2 1 0 1 3 3 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 7
6 Celtic 4 2 0 2 13 3 2 2 0 0 12 0 2 0 0 2 1 3 10 6
7 Dundee United 4 2 0 2 2 4 2 1 0 1 1 2 2 1 0 1 1 2 -2 6
8 St. Johnstone 4 0 3 1 1 2 2 0 1 1 1 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 -1 3
9 Ross County 4 0 2 2 3 8 2 0 1 1 2 4 2 0 1 1 1 4 -5 2
10 Dundee 4 0 2 2 4 11 2 0 2 0 4 4 2 0 0 2 0 7 -7 2
11 St. Mirren 4 0 2 2 3 10 2 0 1 1 1 2 2 0 1 1 2 8 -7 2
12 Livingston 4 0 0 4 2 9 2 0 0 2 2 4 2 0 0 2 0 5 -7 0

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.