Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Rangers & Cove Rangers face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Scottish Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
Rangers and Cove 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.
Cove Rangers play their home games on artifical turf, while this game is played on grass. Recent stats for Cove Rangers when playing on grass are 25 wins, 6 draws and 9 defeats from 40 matches. They have scored 89 goals and conceded 43 times in these games.
Rangers form and stats
Last season, Rangers's Scottish Cup journey ended in the quarter-finals.In general it's been a long time since Rangers tasted defeat here at Ibrox Stadium, as they have taken at least one point from their last 16 home games in the league. Rangers has a nice streak going on as they have played 34 consecutive leaguegames without losing (regardless of home/away). They are keen to extend their tally, a streak that began after the Hamilton Academical defeat 395 days ago.
Preceding that match was the home Europa League game against Slavia Praha that was lost 0-2.
The Rangers goalkeeper Allan McGregor was crucial in the match against Celtic last time out, making seven saves.
Everyone expects Rangers to win this match. We have checked our database for matches where they have been as big a favourite and found ten games: nine home wins, zero draws and one defeat. Rangers have won with at least two goals margin seven times in similar situations.
Cove Rangers form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Alloa Athletic in order to reach 3rd Round of Scottish Cup. Cove's mission in Scottish Cup last season failed in the 2nd round.The story so far for the visiting team on their League One travels is 2 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats. Two points from the last two away games for Cove, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.
Ahead of that match was the League One away draw versus East Fife that ended 0-0.
The visitors come into this game as huge outsiders. This role is not totally unknown to them, as they have played 20 away matches before with similar winning odds. These games have ended with 15 wins, two draws and three defeats. zero games were lost by at least two goals margin.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Cove Rangers manager P. Hartley as the team has another away game coming up in only two days, this time against Clyde.
The attacking power of Cove Rangers when travelling is not overwhelming with 5 goals scored from 7 league matches away. It's not easy to score on Cove Rangers as they have only conceded 4 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  J. Tavernier 11 goals |  A. Morelos Aviléz 11 goals |  K. Roofe 10 goals |
Rangers missing players
Cove Rangers missing players
| Rangers | Cove Rangers | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 19 | 10 | Won | W | 5 | 14 | ||
| 4 | 0 | Drew | D | 4 | 4 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 4 | 7 | ||
| 54 | 27 | Scored | S | 20 | 42 | ||
| 20 | 8 | Conceded | C | 15 | 26 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 76% | 64% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 69% | 72% | ||
| 48% | 55% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 46% | 52% | ||
| 32% | 45% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 23% | 24% | ||
| 24% | 36% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 15% | 16% | ||
| 48% | 36% | BTTS | BTTS | 38% | 44% | ||
| 48% | 55% | Clean Sheets | C S | 31% | 40% | ||
| 4% | 9% | Failed to Score | F T | 38% | 20% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.6 | 1.6 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 13.4 | 13.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.2 | 12.2 | ||
| 5.2 | 5.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 5.6 | ||
| 42% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 31% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Falkirk | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 23 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 14 | 28 |
| 2 | Cove Rangers | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 24 |
| 3 | Montrose | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 24 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 22 |
| 4 | Partick Thistle | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 20 |
| 5 | Peterhead | 14 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 8 | -3 | 19 |
| 6 | East Fife | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 13 | -2 | 17 |
| 7 | Airdrieonians | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 19 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 16 |
| 8 | Clyde | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -10 | 13 |
| 9 | Dumbarton | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -7 | 12 |
| 10 | Forfar Athletic | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 19 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -11 | 10 |