Dundee vs Rangers Prediction: Rangers can’t afford to lose points again

Dens Park hosts this round 30 Scottish Premiership encounter between Dundee and Rangers. Entering into this game, none of these sides could get things right in their last two league games, and coming here, they will hope for their luck. Let’s take a look at the match previews and make a prediction for them.

Dundee go into this fixture coming off a goalless encounter with Aberdeen in the Scottish Premiership. In the meantime, prior encounters to that draw did see Dundee lose to Motherwell at home, a 2-3 home encounter. However, a look at their last four matches saw them pick wins over St Johnstone and Aberdeen. Ahead of this game, encounters with Dundee in the last six games have produced 21 goals from both sides, averaging 3.5 goals per game. However, Dundee did score 8 of those goals, while they conceded 13. So far this season, Dundee have accumulated 40 points from a possible 96, positioning them 6th in the standings, the last spot in the championship group.

Following on from being defeated in their last game at the hands of Ross County in the Premiership competition, Rangers will be aiming to make amends here. With their hopes of going top of the Scottish Premiership League, Rangers did see themselves bottle a first-half lead to relegation-threatened Ross County. In that game, Rangers had 67% possession and 27 shots at goal, with 7 on target, with a 15th-minute Jack Baldwin goal putting them in the lead. However, Rangers gave away three successive goals in the second half of the game, and that could only see them lose, with James Tavernier's goal in the 89th minute being the consolation. Showing their partiality to productive encounters, goals have been scored 22 times in the prior six matches in which Rangers have taken to the pitch, giving a mean average of 3.67 goals per fixture. Opposition teams have managed 10 out of this total.

Dundee Possible Lineup: Jon McCracken, Juan Antonio Portales, Joe Shaughnessy, Aaron Donnelly, Jordan McGhee, Lyall Cameron, Mohamad Sylla, Luke McCowan, Dara Costelloe, Scott Tiffoney, Amadou Bakayoko.

Rangers Possible Lineup: Jack Butland, James Tavernier, Connor Goldson, John Souttar, Dujon Sterling, Mohamed Diomande, John Lundstram, Scott Wright, Tom Lawrence, Fábio Silva, Cyriel Dessers.

The hosts have not been a great team in the bulk of their games, and they are similarly unreliable here. Rangers, on the other hand, are well aware that they have a lot of work to do following their dismal performance last Sunday, in which they lost after taking the lead. However, with quality and level of play considered to be the deciding factors, I predict Rangers FC to go all out in this one, giving it their all and securing a two-goal victory while being very strong in defense.