St. Mirren v Rangers preview: Visitors can prove cut above

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sun 10.April
Match begins: 11:00 (UTC)
Venue: The SMISA Stadium (8016 seats)

St. Mirren come from a 2-4 result versus Motherwell in their previous week, a fixture to remember. The next task is this sturdy Rangers team.

Insights:
  • St. Mirren have the fewest scored goals (12) at home in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most points from losing position (21) in Premiership

The visiting Rangers played their last game only three days ago, a Europa League match. That game, against Sporting Braga, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Rangers.

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St. Mirren form and stats

The story so far in the Premiership for St. Mirren, who have the fewest scored goals (12) at home in Premiership, at their home stadium (The SMISA Stadium) is 3 wins, 7 draws and 5 defeats. Mirren are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at The SMISA Stadium, having lost their two previous games here.

The followers are hoping that St. Mirren will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 2-4 away loss in the match against Motherwell (placed 5th). The attacker Jones won the honour of being "man of the match" for Mirren with the rating of 7.35/10. Jones hit three key passes and had 18 successful passes (of 22 total).

Preceding that match was the home game against Dundee United that was lost 1-2.

The home team are doomed in this game if you believe the odds offered on Rangers to win. Let's see if St. Mirren are capable of creating a surprise here by looking at their earlier home games as massive outsiders: five games found revealing one St. Mirren win, zero draws and four defeats.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for St. Mirren here at The SMISA Stadium in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (12 from 15 games).

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Rangers form and stats

Rangers's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Rangers collect 33 points from their 15 away matches in the Premiership. 10 victories and 3 draws have created these points (and only 2 defeats). Rangers love their trips these days, as their two previous away games have resulted in victories.

Two away games in a row for Rangers, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 against Sporting Braga in the Europa League. Bassey was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.35. The defender Bassey won 8 of 11 duels.

A loss against Celtic was the result prior to that, in a Premiership home game.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Sporting Braga in just four days.

The travelling fans enjoy Rangers's attacking play in away games, having scored 29 goals in 15 league matches away. 16 goals have been conceded by Rangers in these games.

Head 2 Head

The previous H2H match ended Rangers - St. Mirren 2-0, played this season. Numbers for the former ten meetings between these two squads are: one win for St. Mirren, zero draws and nine wins for Rangers. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games. Morelos likes to face Mirren and have scored 7 goals in these matches.

Top Goalscorers

RangersA. Morelos Aviléz
A. Morelos Aviléz
12 goals
St. MirrenE. Brophy
E. Brophy
7 goals
St. MirrenC. Ronan
C. Ronan
7 goals

St. Mirren missing players

Rangers missing players

St. Mirren Rangers
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
32 15 5 Played P 5 15 32
8 3 0 Won W 4 10 22
12 7 2 Drew D 1 3 7
12 5 3 Lost L 0 2 3
30 12 2 Scored S 7 29 63
46 15 6 Conceded C 3 16 27
84% 73% 60% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
66% 60% 60% Over 1.5 O 1.5 60% 73% 75%
41% 33% 40% Over 2.5 O 2.5 40% 53% 50%
25% 7% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 27% 25%
16% 7% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 16%
50% 53% 40% BTTS BTTS 60% 60% 50%
28% 33% 40% Clean Sheets C S 40% 27% 44%
38% 40% 60% Failed to Score F T 0% 13% 6%
 
5.2 6.2 6.4 Corners for (avg) C F 5.8 6.9 7.9
5.9 5.1 7.4 Corners against (avg) C A 4 4.8 3.7
1.6 1.7 1.4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.6 1.9 1.7
7 4 3 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
10.4 10.7 9.6 Shots (avg) S ( 13.8 17.2 19.4
3.4 3.2 1.6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.4 5.8 6.5
28% 25% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 32% 33% 30%
 
14.5 13.5 16.6 Shots against (avg) S A 7.8 7.3 6.4
5.2 5.3 5.8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.4 3.2 2.7
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • 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. Mirren.
  • Rangers have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (10) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most points from losing position (21) in Premiership
  • Rangers have the most scored goals in the second half (34) 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. Mirren have the fewest scored goals (12) at home 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 32 25 4 3 71 19 15 13 2 0 37 4 17 12 2 3 34 15 52 79
2 Rangers 32 22 7 3 63 27 17 12 4 1 34 11 15 10 3 2 29 16 36 73
3 Hearts 32 15 9 8 45 32 16 10 3 3 28 12 16 5 6 5 17 20 13 54
4 Dundee United 32 10 10 12 29 35 15 7 2 6 15 17 17 3 8 6 14 18 -6 40
5 Motherwell 32 10 9 13 36 48 17 8 4 5 23 24 15 2 5 8 13 24 -12 39
6 Hibernian 32 9 11 12 30 34 17 6 6 5 17 15 15 3 5 7 13 19 -4 38
7 Ross County 32 9 10 13 44 52 16 5 7 4 27 25 16 4 3 9 17 27 -8 37
8 Livingston 32 10 7 15 33 41 15 5 3 7 16 19 17 5 4 8 17 22 -8 37
9 Aberdeen 32 9 9 14 38 41 15 7 4 4 23 16 17 2 5 10 15 25 -3 36
10 St. Mirren 32 8 12 12 30 46 15 3 7 5 12 15 17 5 5 7 18 31 -16 36
11 St. Johnstone 32 7 9 16 21 37 17 4 5 8 14 20 15 3 4 8 7 17 -16 30
12 Dundee 32 5 9 18 27 55 17 3 6 8 16 27 15 2 3 10 11 28 -28 24

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.