Rangers vs St Mirren - prediction, team news, lineups

Rangers invited St Mirren to Ibrox Stadium connected Wednesday nighttime successful the Scottish Premiership. 

The hosts are 4th successful the standings with 10 points aft 5 games, trailing the third-placed hosts connected extremity difference.

Match preview

After a dilatory commencement to the play nether Derek McInnes, Rangers person seemingly started to find their feet nether the caller manager. 

McInnes, who joined from Hearts implicit the summer, failed to triumph immoderate of his archetypal 4 competitory games astatine the helm, with 2 defeats and 2 draws, including Rangers' Europa League elimination. 

However, McInnes yet secured his archetypal triumph arsenic Gers brag against St Mirren successful the Scottish League Cup, and they person since experienced a importantly improved run. 

Rangers person present won 5 and mislaid 1 of their past six matches, with their lone decision coming successful the 2nd limb of their Conference League qualifying playoff circular against Jablonec, with the Gers disappointingly going connected to suffer connected penalties.

Three of the victories during that tally person travel successful the Scottish Premiership, seeing Rangers ascent to 4th successful the standings, and they volition beryllium hoping to determination supra their visitors with a triumph connected Wednesday. 

St Mirren person had a mostly awesome commencement to the 2026-27 campaign, winning six, drafting 1 and losing 3 of their 10 matches crossed each competitions. 

The Saints made a peculiarly beardown commencement to the league season, winning 3 and drafting 1 of their opening 4 games, but they suffered their archetypal decision of the Scottish Premiership run past clip out. 

After taking a 1-0 pb acknowledgment to Nikolas Agrafiotis' penalty, goals from Liam Scales and Yang Hyun-Jun secured a 2-1 triumph for Celtic. 

Craig McLeish volition beryllium anxious to debar a 2nd consecutive decision erstwhile they instrumentality connected Rangers, who person already handed St Mirren a humiliating nonaccomplishment earlier this season. 

Rangers, arsenic aforementioned, secured a superb 5-1 triumph successful the Scottish Premiership 2nd round, marking the Gers' 3rd consecutive triumph successful this fixture.

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Team News

Rangers volition beryllium without Youssef Chermiti, Jose Cifuentes and Tuur Rommens owed to ongoing wounded problems, portion Lawrence Shankland is besides ruled retired aft being forced disconnected with an wounded past clip out. 

Ryan Don Naderi should regenerate the skipper successful attack, portion Ben Godfrey whitethorn commencement successful defence up of Emmanuel Fernandez, who was besides taken disconnected with an wounded concern. 

St Mirren, meanwhile, are without Jonah Ayunga, Killian Phillips, Keanu Baccus, Malik Dijksteel and Liam Donnelly owed to wounded issues.

Agrafiotis scored for the archetypal clip since joining St Mirren successful the decision to Celtic, and the striker should pb the enactment again connected Wednesday.

Rangers imaginable starting lineup:

Pandur; Sterling, Godfrey, Makhanya, Penrice; Raskin, Neil; Curtis, Kim, Gassama; Naderi

St Mirren imaginable starting lineup:

Chapman; Ramsay, Gogic, Fieldson, John; Carr, Nsio; Mochrie, Taylor, Kabia; Agrafiotis

We say: Rangers 3-1 St Mirren

Rangers caput into this crippled disconnected the backmost of 3 consecutive league wins, and fixed their ascendant triumph against St Mirren earlier this season, a akin result is expected here.

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