Betting prediction and preview: Rangers fancied to be better team when visiting St. Johnstone

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Wed 21.April
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: McDiarmid Park (10696 seats)

This promises to be another interesting encounter at McDiarmid Park in the Premiership. St. Johnstone is in 6th position and welcome Rangers in 1st place. Read all about the match here!

Insights:
  • Rangers have not yet lost a game.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Johnstone and Rangers.

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St. Johnstone form and stats

There will be little rest for St. Johnstone after this match as they are travelling to Rangers for a Scottish Cup game in only four days.

Last season, St. Johnstone's league statistics were 8 wins, 12 draws and 9 losses, resulting in a 7th position in the Premiership. Over these 29 matches they scored 28 goals and conceded 46. Playing at home last season St. Johnstone managed 5-6-5 (win-draw-lost) with 19 goals and 26 conceded.

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Rangers form and stats

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting St. Johnstone in just four days.

Let's have a look at how Rangers performed last season in the Premiership: They landed a 2nd position in the league table after playing out 21 victories, 4 draws and 4 defeats. In total they scored 64 and conceded 19 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 10 - drew 3 and lost 2 with 31/12 goals scored/conceded.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: Rangers - St. Johnstone 1-0. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: one - two - seven (Johnstone wins - draws - Rangers wins). As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

RangersJ. Tavernier
J. Tavernier
11 goals
RangersA. Morelos Aviléz
A. Morelos Aviléz
11 goals
RangersK. Roofe
K. Roofe
10 goals

St. Johnstone missing players

Rangers missing players

St. Johnstone Rangers
Total Home vs Statistics Stat vs Away Total
34 17 0 Played P 0 17 34
10 5 0 Won W 0 12 29
10 4 0 Drew D 0 5 5
14 8 0 Lost L 0 0 0
34 8 0 Scored S 0 31 80
41 14 0 Conceded C 0 8 11
91% 82% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 94% 97%
59% 29% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 71% 74%
38% 18% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 35% 47%
15% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 18% 26%
9% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 6% 12%
44% 18% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 41% 29%
26% 47% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 59% 71%
38% 53% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 6% 3%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.6 1.6 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1 0.9
5 2 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11.6 11.4 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 15 15.3
3.1 2.2 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4.8 5.6
33% 22% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 38% 42%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • 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 St. Johnstone.

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.