St Mirren vs Rangers preview: Team news, lineups and prediction

Rangers return to Scottish Premiership action when they visit St Mirren on Sunday.

Back-to-back 2-2 draws with Livingston and Celtic leave Rangers six points off the top of the Scottish Premiership table, and their hopes of winning the Scottish Premiership for the first time in five years are fading away.

Despite doing a brilliant job to get back into the mix for the title, the Bears may have left themselves with a lot to do to catch league leaders Hearts.

Danny Rohl’s men now face a St Mirren side that are 10th in the Scottish Premiership and have just lost manager Stephen Robinson to Aberdeen, meaning interim head coach Craig McLeish will take charge of the match.

But after Rangers lost to Celtic last Sunday in the Scottish Cup, Rangers desperately need to return to winning ways in the league by taking advantage of St Mirren’s current predicament.

Form guide

St Mirren (last six games all comps): W L D L L L

Rangers (last six games all comps): L D D W D W

Head-to-head

Rangers beat St Mirren 2-1 in the reverse fixture in December 2025, but that certainly doesn’t tell the whole story.

In the last five meetings between these two sides in competitive fixtures, Rangers have emerged as the victors on just one occasion.

St Mirren have won twice and drawn the other two, and Gers haven’t been able to keep a clean sheet against the Buddies in any of their last seven games.

When it comes to their home form in the Scottish Premiership, the hosts have won four games out of 14 at St Mirren Park, while also drawing five and losing five.

Rangers have a perfect opportunity to end this barren record, especially as they have very few injuries to deal with.

Team news and predicted lineups

Bailey Rice, Derek Cornelius and Connor Barron are still on the sidelines, but Rohl should have the rest of his squad available.

Tochi Chukwuani and John Souttar dropped to the bench for the Scottish Cup clash against Celtic, but they could both come back into the team.

Andreas Skov Olsen’s place in the team is also at risk after a string of poor performances, with Djeidi Gassama the most obvious replacement.

As for St Mirren, they’re without Jonah Ayunga and Malik Dijksteel, and both injuries have definitely hampered their form.

St Mirren predicted XI: George; Fraser, Gogic, Freckleton; Richardson, Phillips, Baccus, O’Hara, John; Nlundulu, Young

Rangers predicted XI: Butland; Sterling, Souttar, Fernandez, Rommens; Raskin, Chukwuani; Gassama, Moore, Naderi, Chermiti

We say: St Mirren 1-3 Rangers

The Bears have to win every remaining game of their season if they want to avoid missing out on silverware in 2025-26.

Rohl has done a brilliant job, but he’ll ultimately be judged for the trophies he wins or fails to win.

Therefore, Rangers can’t afford to slip up against St Mirren, and as they are without a manager and in really poor form, it shouldn’t be a tough test.

Although the game might be even in the opening stages, the Light Blues should pull clear as the match progresses, with a 3-1 scoreline being the most likely outcome.

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