Rangers vs Motherwell - prediction, team news, lineups

Rangers volition resume their Scottish Premiership rubric complaint erstwhile they instrumentality connected Motherwell astatine Ibrox connected Sunday successful the opening fixture of the post-split campaign.

The hosts are 2nd successful the standings and conscionable 1 constituent down the leaders, portion the visitors are 4th and warring for European football.

Match preview

Rangers started the play successful disastrous fashion, with Russell Martin dismissed aft signaling conscionable 1 win, 5 draws and 1 nonaccomplishment successful their opening 7 Scottish Premiership fixtures. 

However, the consequent assignment of Danny Rohl has surely paid disconnected to date, with the manager overseeing a important betterment astatine Ibrox and starring the Gers into the rubric race.

Rohl has recorded 18 wins, six draws and suffered conscionable 1 decision successful 25 Scottish Premiership matches, including a fantastic 16-game unbeaten tally to permission Rangers conscionable 1 constituent down league leaders Hearts going into the post-split term. 

Rohl volition beryllium anxious to support that momentum passim the upcoming 5 fixtures, including important clashes against rubric contenders Celtic and Hearts, successful an effort to unafraid their archetypal league rubric since 2020-21. 

Alongside their superb unbeaten tally coming into this clash, the Gers person been formidable astatine Ibrox this term, winning 11, drafting 5 and losing lone 1 of their 17 location league games, including a 1-0 triumph against Motherwell successful December.

The Steelmen besides caput into the brushwood enduring a uncommon disappointing run, having mislaid 4 and drawn 1 of their past 5 matches. 

That marks a important debased constituent compared to Motherwell's mostly awesome campaign, including suffering conscionable 3 defeats successful their archetypal 28 league fixtures, alongside 14 wins and 11 draws.

As a result, Jens Berthel Askou's men person allowed their grasp connected 4th spot to slip, with fifth-placed Hibernian present conscionable 3 points down the Steelmen going into the last 5 matches of the term. 

With ambitions of securing European shot for adjacent season, Askou volition beryllium hopeless for his broadside to extremity that winless streak and instrumentality to signifier successful the coming weeks, starting with picking up much-needed points astatine the Ibrox. 

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Team News

Rangers volition beryllium without the availability of Tuur Rommens, Bailey Rice and Ryan Naderi for this lucifer owed to ongoing wounded issues. 

Bojan Miovski and Youssef Chermiti some scored a brace successful the 6-3 triumph against Falkirk past clip out, and the duo should some commencement successful onslaught connected Sunday.

Meanwhile, Motherwell are acceptable to beryllium without John Koutroumbis, Regan Charles-Cook and Zach Robinson owed to wounded concerns. 

Tawanda Maswanhise is the Scottish Premiership apical scorer with 17 goals successful 30 appearances, and the guardant should commencement alongside Elijah Just, Emmanuel Longelo and Ibrahim Said connected Sunday.

Rangers imaginable starting lineup:

Butland; Tavernier, Djiga, Fernandez, Aarons; Raskin, Chukwuani; Gassama, Miovski, Moore; Chermiti

Motherwell imaginable starting lineup:

Ward; Sparrow, McGinn, Welsh, O'Donnell; Fadinger, Watt, Maswanhise, Just, Longelo; Said

We say: Rangers 2-0 Motherwell

Rangers are connected a fantastic unbeaten tally and person a formidable grounds astatine Ibrox this term, and with Motherwell's caller struggles, the hosts should prime up the triumph connected Sunday.

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