Rangers looking for adventure and three points in Premiership trip to St. Mirren

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Wed 30.December
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: The Paisley 2021 Stadium (8016 seats)

St. Mirren will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 35 points behind Rangers.

Insights:
  • St. Mirren has the fewest matches over the total-line (4) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most scored goals (54) in Premiership

It's no vacation for neither St. Mirren nor Rangers as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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St. Mirren form and stats

With 2 Premiership wins, 3 draws and 5 defeats from their home games, St. Mirren are certainly not brimming with confidence.

It's back home for Mirren, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Ross County away with the result 2-0. Marcus Fraser and Kristian Dennis found the net in that victory. Prior to that, an away loss at Hibernian.

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 Mirren had similar winning odds as today, and found five games. In these, the hosts won one, drew zero and lost four. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that St. Mirren lost one similar game by at least two goals.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Mirren as they are travelling to their away game against Kilmarnock in the Premiership. That match is three days after this one.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Mirren here at The Paisley 2021 Stadium in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (7 from 10 games). It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. St. Mirren have conceded 16 from these games.

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Rangers form and stats

The strength of Rangers, who have the most scored goals (54) in Premiership, on their travels this season is incredible with 26 points collected from 10 Premiership away games. Rangers has 8-2-0 on the road, with 22 goals scored and 4 conceded. Rangers have been producing wins at home as well, producing a total of twelve victories in a row regardless of arena. Long winning streaks away are a rare occurrence in football, which only makes Rangers's record of six away victories in a row even more impressive. They last lost points away in the Hibernian game.

264 minutes! That's how long the Rangers goalkeeper Allan McGregor and his defense have shut out their league opponents.

Rangers won their last game, 1-0 versus Hibernian played at home. Prior to that result Rangers won their away game at St. Johnstone. The scoreline was 3-0.

As mentioned earlier, Rangers will not be satisfied unless they get a comfortable victory in this game. Performing as huge favourites away from home has earlier resulted in 17 wins (13 by two or more goals winning margin), two draws and one surprising defeat.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Celtic in just three days.

With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Rangers are regular goalscorers on their travels. Rangers's manager S. Gerrard has created a great defensive setup working very nicely in away games with only 4 conceded goals. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Rangers - Mirren 3-0. St. Mirren-Rangers H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Mirren one win, Rangers eight wins, one draw. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

RangersJ. Tavernier
J. Tavernier
11 goals
RangersK. Roofe
K. Roofe
9 goals
RangersR. Kent
R. Kent
5 goals

St. Mirren missing players

Rangers missing players

St. Mirren Rangers
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
19 10 3 Played P 3 10 20
6 2 0 Won W 2 8 18
3 3 1 Drew D 1 2 2
10 5 2 Lost L 0 0 0
14 7 2 Scored S 7 22 54
25 16 6 Conceded C 2 4 5
95% 90% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 90% 95%
58% 70% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 70% 80%
42% 50% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 50% 55%
5% 10% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 30% 35%
5% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 10% 10%
32% 40% 67% BTTS BTTS 67% 30% 20%
32% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 70% 80%
42% 50% 33% Failed to Score F T 33% 10% 5%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.9 2.1 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.7 1 0.7
3 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11.5 12.1 15.3 Shots (avg) S ( 18.7 16.2 16.8
3.5 3.4 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6 5.1 6.2
23% 26% 13% Goal Efficiency G E 39% 43% 44%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Rangers has the fewest conceded goals (4) away in Premiership
  • Rangers has the fewest conceded goals (5) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most clean sheets (16) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most points (26) away in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most scored goals (54) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the most scored goals in the first half (29) in Premiership
  • Rangers has the the best goal difference (+18) away in Premiership
  • Rangers has the the best goal difference (+49) in Premiership
  • 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. Mirren.
  • Rangers is in the best form (6-0-0)
  • St. Mirren has the fewest matches over the total-line (4) in Premiership
  • St. Mirren have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
  • St. Mirren have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Rangers 20 18 2 0 54 5 10 10 0 0 32 1 10 8 2 0 22 4 49 56
2 Celtic 17 12 4 1 42 14 8 6 1 1 19 6 9 6 3 0 23 8 28 40
3 Aberdeen 19 11 5 3 27 18 10 7 1 2 18 12 9 4 4 1 9 6 9 38
4 Hibernian 20 10 6 4 30 18 9 3 5 1 13 11 11 7 1 3 17 7 12 36
5 Dundee United 20 6 7 7 17 24 11 4 3 4 12 11 9 2 4 3 5 13 -7 25
6 Livingston 19 7 3 9 22 26 9 3 1 5 8 12 10 4 2 4 14 14 -4 24
7 Motherwell 20 6 5 9 23 26 10 2 2 6 9 17 10 4 3 3 14 9 -3 23
8 St. Mirren 19 6 3 10 14 25 10 2 3 5 7 16 9 4 0 5 7 9 -11 21
9 Kilmarnock 20 5 2 13 19 28 10 3 1 6 12 14 10 2 1 7 7 14 -9 17
10 St. Johnstone 20 4 5 11 18 30 10 2 2 6 4 11 10 2 3 5 14 19 -12 17
11 Hamilton Academical 20 5 2 13 21 45 10 1 2 7 6 20 10 4 0 6 15 25 -24 17
12 Ross County 20 3 4 13 10 38 10 1 3 6 5 21 10 2 1 7 5 17 -28 13

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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.