Scotland Premiership
27/10/24 15:00
Rangers

Rangers

St Mirren

St Mirren

Rangers vs St Mirren Prediction & Tips - Odds, H2H, and Preview

Rangers vs St Mirren Prediction

This Sunday’s Scottish Premiership match sees St Mirren make the trip to face Rangers at Ibrox Stadium. This result could have serious implications as Rangers are currently chasing the gap that Celtic and Aberdeen have left in their way and St Mirren are only a point away from escaping the relegation qualification zone.

Rangers vs St Mirren

Key Stats

  • Rangers haven’t lost to St Mirren in their last 13 meetings (12W-1D)
  • St Mirren haven’t scored in their last 2 games nor kept a clean sheet in their last 11 matches
  • Rangers are ranked the best in home form in the Scottish Premiership

Team Previews, Form and Standout Players

St Mirren have been a horror show defensively, conceding 18 goals in nine games, the worst defensive record in the Scottish Premiership. The Rangers attack hypothetically should have a field day with the back line but they failed to put one past Kilmarnock the other week so who knows.

Rangers are suffering from a whole list of players that are unavailable for this match, including difference makers Rabbi Matondo and Tom Lawrence. They are able to rely on Vaclav Cerny and Cyriel Dessers who have both got four goal contributions each so far this season.

Rangers Preview

Predicted Line-Up: Jack Butland; Jefté, Robin Pröpper, John Souttar, James Tavernier (c); Nicolas Raskin, Mohamed Diomandé; Vaclav Cerny, Nedim Bajrami, Tom Lawrence; Cyriel Dessers

After constantly finishing behind Celtic in the league, Rangers have not seen any change to that observation as of right now, in fact they are worse. They currently sit in third behind Celtic and Aberdeen as neither of those sides have yet to lose but Rangers will take comfort knowing that they face each other this weekend. Five wins, two losses and a draw from the opening eight games, meaning they are sitting on 16 points, something that Philippe Clement and his men will need to work on.

The Gers have heavily relied on winger Vaclav Cerny, who in the seven SPFL games he has featured in, has contributed to three goals and one assist. Rangers also have more reliable attacking players as Cyriel Dessers and Tom Lawrence have outputted three goals and one assist each. Good news for Rangers fans as Lawrence has now recovered from his hamstring injury that saw him miss a handful of games. Captain James Tavernier and Mohamed Diomandé have provided two assists so they could be the key to beating St Mirren this Sunday.

Kilmarnock Preview

Predicted Line-Up: Ellery Balcombe; Scott Tanser, Charles Dunne, Alex Gogic, Marcus Fraser; Mark O’Hara, Oisin Smyth, Killian Phillips; Toyosi Olusanya, Kevin van Veen, Greg Kiltie

Dropping in performance from last year’s fifth place finish, St Mirren find themselves ninth in the Scottish Premiership standings after nine games. Two wins, five losses and two draws sees them with eight points. St Mirren has an alarmingly high number of goals conceded as they have let in 18 goals, the second worst in the league. They have attempted to make their goal difference better by scoring 11 goals but that still makes of a difference of minus seven. Four of those goals have come from winger Toyosi Olusanya who has blanked the last three games but if St Mirren are likely to grab a goal in this big match versus Rangers, he would be our pick to do so.

Head To Head Stats: Rangers vs St Mirren

There have been 52 matches where these two teams have faced each other throughout history.

Rangers unsurprisingly come into this match holding an advantage over St Mirren as they have come out victors on 44 occasions, 41 more times than St Mirren’s 3 wins in this fixture. A draw has happened 5 times out of the 52 games, leaving Rangers with a confident 84.6% win percentage.

The last five faceoffs have all been split in the favour of Rangers, winning five out of the five matches. There is a high likelihood that Rangers add their 45th win against St Mirren this Sunday.

28th April 2024 – St Mirren 1-2 Rangers – Premiership Championship Group

27th January 2024 – St Mirren 0-1 Rangers – Scottish Premiership

3rd December 2023 – Rangers 2-0 St Mirren – Scottish Premiership

8th October 2023 – St Mirren 0-3 Rangers – Scottish Premiership

27th May 2023 – St Mirren 0-3 Kilmarnock – Premiership Championship Group

Betting Tips For Rangers vs St Mirren

Rangers have just come off the back of winning 4-0 at home against FCSB in the UEFA Europa League so they will be high in confidence. That squad was slightly rotated of they won’t have too many tired legs and they can still put out a strong starting 11.

For that reason, our betting experts have gone with Rangers To Win To Nil as our best value tip for this game.

Odds of 11/10 mean that a £10 bet has the potential to return up to £21 in this match.

(odds subject to change)

Final Prediction: Rangers vs St Mirren

Rangers 2-0 St Mirren

With the confidence that Rangers will have coming into this match and with the poor defensive and attacking form that St Mirren have been displaying recently, we can see Rangers keeping a clean sheet and taking all three points in this one.

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