About Match
6 points and 5 places separate them: St. Johnstone 7th with 7, Rangers 2nd with 13. Scoring rates set the scale: St. Johnstone 1.33 scored and 1.5 conceded per game, Rangers 1.17 and 0.67, with the league averaging 1.3. Victory would move St. Johnstone to 10 points and up to 4th, with other results unchanged.
Rangers come in having won six on the spin, having scored in 10 consecutive games. The five-game form split reads 4/15 points for St. Johnstone against 15/15 for Rangers.
39 meetings are on record — 3 won by St. Johnstone, 30 by Rangers, 6 drawn, at 2.82 goals per meeting. Home advantage has meant little here: 41% of the meetings went to the host.
The venue is McDiarmid Park in Perth, with room for 10,696 spectators.