Falkirk vs Rangers - prediction, team news, lineups

Falkirk invited Rangers to the Falkirk Stadium connected Wednesday nighttime for a Scottish Premiership clash. 

The hosts are inactive searching for their archetypal league triumph of the season, portion the visitors person won one, drawn 1 and mislaid 1 of their opening 3 matches.

Match preview

Falkirk enjoyed a fantastic 2025-26 Scottish Premiership season, securing a sixth-placed decorativeness successful their archetypal top-flight run since 2009-10.

The Bairns have, however, failed to physique connected that accomplishment astatine the opening of the caller term. 

John McGlynn's broadside were disappointingly eliminated from the Scottish League Cup radical signifier with 7 points from 4 games, finishing second, portion they are inactive waiting for their archetypal league triumph of the season. 

Falkirk person recorded 2 defeats and 1 gully successful their opening 3 Scottish Premiership matches, scoring conscionable 1 extremity during that tally of results. 

McGlynn volition beryllium anxious for his broadside to extremity that hunt for a triumph erstwhile they instrumentality connected Rangers connected Wednesday, but the Bairns volition person to flooded a miserable grounds against the Gers if they are to unafraid a affirmative result. 

Rangers besides caput into Wednesday nighttime disconnected the backmost of claiming their archetypal 3 points of the caller Scottish Premiership campaign, narrowly defeating Aberdeen 1-0 acknowledgment to a Lawrence Shankland penalty. 

Derek McInnes volition beryllium hoping the Gers tin physique connected that effect moving forward, with the manager already nether unit pursuing a lacklustre commencement to the term. 

The Gers failed to triumph immoderate of their archetypal 4 matches crossed each competitions, including their elimination from the Europa League qualifiers, but McInnes' men looked to yet get connected way erstwhile they secured back-to-back wins.

After booking their spot successful the Scottish League Cup 3rd round, the Gers secured a 1-0 triumph successful the archetypal limb of their Conference League playoff qualifying circular against Jablonec. 

However, a 1-0 decision successful the 2nd limb was followed by a 4-3 nonaccomplishment connected penalties, elimination Rangers from the Conference League and leaving them without immoderate European shot this season. 

Left with lone home competitions to absorption on, McInnes volition beryllium hoping his broadside tin physique connected the weekend's triumph and enactment unneurotic a tally of wins to commencement moving up the table.

The Gers volition besides beryllium capable to gully assurance from their caller grounds astatine the Falkirk Stadium, including 6-3 and 5-2 victories successful their past 2 visits to the Bairns' location ground.

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Team News

Falkirk are contending with a fig of injuries, with Aidan Nesbitt, Craig Sibbald, Ethan Laidlaw, Joe Gardner, Keelan Adams, Tom Lang and Finn Yeats each dealing with wounded issues. 

Falkirk's lone extremity successful the league this word was an own-goal from Celtic's Colby Donovan, and McGlynn volition beryllium looking to striker Ben Parkinson to assistance pb his broadside to a effect connected Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Rangers are expected to beryllium without lone Youssef Chermiti and Jose Cifuentes owed to wounded problems. 

After securing their archetypal Scottish Premiership triumph of the play past clip out, McInnes is apt to sanction an unchanged starting 11 connected Wednesday.

Falkirk imaginable starting lineup:

Bain; Strain, Neilson, Henderson, McCann; Barbrook, Spencer; Ross, Krauhaus, Fodrey; Parkinson

Rangers imaginable starting lineup:

Pandur; Sterling, Fernandez, Makhanya, Penrice; Devlin, Neil; Curtis, Kim, Gassama; Shankland

We say: Falkirk 0-2 Rangers

Rangers volition beryllium boosted by the weekend's victory, and with their awesome grounds successful this fixture and Falkirk's dilatory commencement to the term, we are predicting a comfy distant triumph.

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