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Dundee vs Rangers Live Stream, Predictions
Dundee will face off against the visiting Rangers at Scot Foam Stadium in the Premiership meeting on Sunday.
Scroll down to see all of the predictions, poll and statistics for Dundee v Rangers (inc. the best betting odds).
📊 Form Guide
Dundee
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Dundee will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following the 1-0 Premiership success vs Aberdeen.
In that game, Dundee managed 54% possession and 18 shots on goal with 6 on target. The only player to score for Dundee was Luke McCowan (66'). For their opponents, Aberdeen got 9 shots at goal with 2 of them on target.
Fixtures involving Dundee have proved to be absorbing encounters lately with plenty of scoring the rule rather than the exception. Over their past six games alone, the sum of 21 goals have been recorded for both sides combined (at an average of 3.5 goals per game) with 9 of these coming from Dundee. We will see if that trend will be sustained in this game.
Coming into this fixture, Dundee haven't won against Rangers in their previous 9 league games.
Rangers
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After being defeated in their last game at the hands of Benfica in Europa League competition, Rangers and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.
In that match, Rangers had 59% possession and 12 shots at goal with 3 on target. Benfica had 13 shots at goal with 4 on target. Rafa Silva (66') was the scorer for Benfica.
Philippe Clement's Rangers have seen their goal attempts be successful a total of 12 times in the course of their most recent six matches. The aggregate of goals that have been scored against them during those matches comes to 5.
Their previous form shows that Rangers:
- are undefeated by Dundee when they've played them away from home in the last 4 matches in the league. A very decent away record against them.
- haven't been defeated in their previous 4 away league matches.
↔️ Head to head
Looking over their past head to head meetings stretching back to 04/12/2021 reveals that these encounters have not been kind to Dundee. They have not managed to get any wins at all whereas Rangers have simply been better than them, running out winners in 100% of those ties.
19 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 2 from The Dark Blues and 17 coming from The Gers. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.17.
The previous league encounter featuring the two was Premiership match day 17 on 09/12/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Rangers 3-1 Dundee.
That time, Rangers had 55% possession and 20 attempts on goal with 9 of them on target. The goalscorers were Cyriel Dessers (20'), James Tavernier (26') and Abdallah Sima (34').
Dundee got 9 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Amadou Bakayoko (5') scored.
The match was refereed by Kevin Clancy.
📰 Team News: Dundee
The Dundee manager Tony Docherty will be thankful to have no fitness worries at all ahead of this game owing to a completely healthy group available to select from.
ℹ️ Team News: Rangers
Rangers manager Philippe Clement has multiple availability issues to deal with. Todd Cantwell (Hamstring injury), Abdallah Sima (Hamstring injury), Rabbi Matondo (Muscle injury), Kieran Dowell (surgery), Danilo (Knee injury) and Óscar Cortés (Muscle injury) miss out here.
🔮 Prediction
We’re of the opinion that Dundee have it within them to put one past this Rangers outfit, but one goal isn’t likely to be enough to give them the result that they want.
We’re therefore expecting a tight encounter finishing with a 1-2 advantage for Rangers at full-time.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Victor Martins, 11:01 17/03/2024
Predicted Lineups
⚽️ Team Focus:
Dundee
Formed: 1893
Stadium: Scot Foam Stadium (11,775)
Captain: Joe Shaughnessy
Chairman: Tim Keyes
Manager: Tony Docherty
Competitions: Premiership position 7
⭐ Star Player: Luke McCowan
Usually taking to the field in the Left Wing position, Luke McCowan was born in Scotland. After making a first senior appearance for Ayr United in the 2017 - 2018 season, the gifted Forward has bagged 7 league goals in the Premiership 2023 - 2024 campaign to date coming from a total of 27 appearances.
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30 | 22 | 5 | 3 | 48 | 71 | DWWLW |
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29 | 23 | 1 | 5 | 48 | 70 | WWWWL |
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30 | 17 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 55 | WLDWL |
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30 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 44 | DWLDW |
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30 | 12 | 6 | 12 | -1 | 42 | LWDWL |
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30 | 9 | 11 | 10 | -4 | 38 | WDWDW |
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29 | 9 | 9 | 11 | -10 | 36 | WLLDW |
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30 | 7 | 11 | 12 | -6 | 32 | LLWWL |
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30 | 7 | 9 | 14 | -15 | 30 | LLLLW |
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30 | 6 | 10 | 14 | -20 | 28 | LLWDL |
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30 | 6 | 9 | 15 | -23 | 27 | WDLDW |
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30 | 3 | 8 | 19 | -32 | 17 | WLLDL |
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Goals scored | 1.4 |
Goals conceded | 1.4 |
Time first goal scored | 48 |
Time first goal conceded | 31 |
Yellow cards | 1.9 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 3.2 |
Biggest victory | 4-0 |
Biggest defeat | 5-0 |
Goals scored | 2 |
Goals conceded | 0.4 |
Time first goal scored | 35 |
Time first goal conceded | 28 |
Yellow cards | 1.2 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 4.3 |
Biggest victory | 5-0 |
Biggest defeat | 2-1 |
Luke McCowan | 8 |
Amadou Bakayoko | 5 |
Lyall Cameron | 4 |
Joe Shaughnessy | 4 |
Jordan McGhee | 3 |
James Tavernier | 14 |
Cyriel Dessers | 12 |
Abdallah Sima | 10 |
Todd Cantwell | 5 |
Danilo | 4 |
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