Rangers vs St Johnstone Predictions

• Rangers have won four of their last five home league games with both teams scoring in each
• St Johnstone have scored at least two goals in all three of their competitive away games this season
• Rangers have beaten St Johnstone in eight of their last nine meetings

Rangers must beware slick Saints duo

Rangers will be desperate to get Tuesday’s Champions League defeat to Dynamo Kiev out of their system when they return to Hampden Park to entertain St Johnstone in the Scottish League Cup on Saturday.

The Light Blues were creating better chances than their opponents until Jefte’s harsh second yellow card saw them reduced to 10 men and the match swing in the Ukrainians’ favour.

But this cup clash may be almost as complicated for Phillipe Clement’s side if St Johnstone’s in-form strike duo of Adama Sidibeh and Benjamin Kimpioka cause as many problems as they have in the Perth club’s opening two league contests.

High-scoring contest at Hampden

Saints boss Craig Levein is well known for ‘parking the bus’ in away games like this, but they have a real threat on the counter-attack now that could bear fruit against Rangers.

Gers have won eight of their last nine meetings with Saints and kept clean sheets in each of those victories, but Clement’s backline lacks pace and is down on confidence after keeping only one clean sheet in four games so far this season.

High-scoring wins with goals at both ends were the trend at Ibrox late last season and, following a 2-1 win over Motherwell in their first home league game of the campaign, it looks worthwhile in backing the Light Blues to win this with both teams on the scoresheet again.