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Predictions and Tips
St Johnstone will do battle with visiting side Rangers at McDiarmid Park in the Premiership meeting on Sunday.
Our St Johnstone v Rangers tips, poll and stats can be seen in full below - as well as up-to-date odds.
📏 Form Guide
St Johnstone
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St Johnstone, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 1-0 Premiership triumph against Kilmarnock.
In that game, St Johnstone managed 52% possession and 10 shots at goal with 4 on target. The only player to score for St Johnstone was Makenzie Kirk (53'). Kilmarnock had 12 shots on goal with 1 of them on target.
At least three goals per game were seen in 5 of the past 6 meetings where St Johnstone have taken part. Opposition teams scored 8 of them in these games while St Johnstone bagged a total of 9. However, we will just have to wait and see if that pattern will be sustained in this game.
Coming into this meeting, St Johnstone have left without a victory over Rangers in their last 5 league games.
Rangers
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Rangers come into this game following on from a 1-4 Europa League win versus Nice in their most recent match.
In that game, Rangers had 46% possession and 15 shots at goal with 8 on target. For Rangers, goals were scored by Václav Černý (35'), Mohamed Diomande (38') and Hamza Igamane (45', 54'). For their opponents, Nice had 19 shots at goal with 7 on target. Badredine Bouanani (83') scored for Nice.
Over the course of their previous six outings, Rangers have bagged the sum of 8 goals. Rangers have also managed to score on each one of those occasions. During that period, they’ve seen 6 goals go against them.
Looking at their past form shows that Rangers:
- have not been beaten by St Johnstone when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league games.
- have not won away from home in their last 2 matches in the league.
👥 Head to head
An inspection of their past head to head results stretching back to 28/01/2023 reveals that these fixtures have been disappointments for St Johnstone. They’ve not managed to register any victories whatsoever whereas Rangers have remained in the ascendancy, running out winners in 100 per cent of those ties.
13 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 0 from The Saints and 13 being from The Gers. That is an average goals per game value of 2.17.
The previous league encounter featuring the two was Premiership match day 7 on 06/10/2024 and the score finished Rangers 2-0 St Johnstone.
On that occasion, Rangers managed 64% possession and 21 shots at goal with 6 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Václav Černý (34', 58').
St Johnstone got 10 shots on goal with 3 of them on target.
The referee was David Dickinson.
📋 Team News: Rangers
Rangers boss Philippe Clement has not got a full squad to pick from. Rıdvan Yılmaz (Hamstring injury) and Tom Lawrence (Knock) will miss out on this game.
💭 Prediction
We feel that in this game, Rangers should create a decent amount of chances and shots on target.
Conversely, St Johnstone will not find it easy getting on the scoresheet but we think it’s quite likely that they will be scoring here.
We therefore think that it’s going to be a decent 1-3 margin for Rangers after 90 minutes.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Renata Leite, 11:30 01/12/2024
📊 Poll: Who Will Win?
⚽️ Team Focus:
St Johnstone
Formed: 1884
Stadium: McDiarmid Park (10,696)
Captain: Nicky Clark
Chairman: Adam Webb
Manager: Simo Valakari
Competitions: Premiership position 9
🔑 Key Player: Benjamin Mbunga Kimpioka
Mostly taking up the Striker position, Benjamin Mbunga Kimpioka was born in Knivsta, Sweden. After having played his first senior match for AIK in the 2022 season, the dangerous Forward has scored a sum of 5 league goals in the Premiership 2024 - 2025 campaign so far coming from a total of 12 appearances.
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13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 36 | 37 | WWWWW |
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13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 32 | WWWLD |
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12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 23 | LWLWD |
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13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | -3 | 19 | LWWLL |
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15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | -6 | 18 | WDWWL |
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15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | -15 | 15 | DDLWL |
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14 | 4 | 1 | 9 | -10 | 13 | WLLLW |
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14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -11 | 13 | WLLLD |
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15 | 2 | 6 | 7 | -7 | 12 | DLLDW |
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14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | -9 | 9 | DLWLL |
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Goals scored | 1.2 |
Goals conceded | 2 |
Time first goal scored | 58 |
Time first goal conceded | 23 |
Yellow cards | 1.8 |
Red cards | 0.2 |
Subs used | 3.5 |
Biggest victory | 3-0 |
Biggest defeat | 6-0 |
Goals scored | 0.4 |
Goals conceded | 1.2 |
Time first goal scored | 35 |
Time first goal conceded | 45 |
Yellow cards | 3.6 |
Red cards | 0 |
Subs used | 4.4 |
Biggest victory | 1-0 |
Biggest defeat | 3-0 |
Nicky Clark | 5 |
Benjamin Mbunga Kimpioka | 5 |
Makenzie Kirk | 3 |
Adama Sidibeh | 2 |
Graham Carey | 1 |
Václav Černý | 6 |
Cyriel Dessers | 6 |
Danilo | 3 |
Tom Lawrence | 3 |
Hamza Igamane | 2 |
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