Ross County vs Rangers Prediction: Home team’s try won’t be enough

Rangers will play Ross County at Global Energy Stadium on Saturday at midday in the Scottish Premiership. Both squads started the current top-flight season with a defeat in their first match before coming back to win all three points in their second game two weeks ago.

Ross County comes into this match having won their previous two matches, one against St. Johnstone in the Premiership and the other against Airdrieonians in the Scottish League Cup. The most recent victory over the Airdrieonians was a thrilling seven-goal match that went into extra time. Eamonn Brophy came off the bench for the visitors and scored the game-winning goal in the 101st minute against their Championship opponents. The Staggies were leading 3-1 heading into the final 10 minutes of their second-round tie, but they allowed two late goals that sent the game into extra time. Eamonn Brophy saved the visitors' bacon by scoring the game-winning goal in the 101st minute. The team coached by Malky Mackay earned a quarterfinal home tie against Aberdeen at the end of the following month. However, they must first turn their attention back to the Premiership and will attempt to claim their second consecutive top-flight home win on Saturday after defeating St. Johnstone 2-0 on August 12. Ross County have frustrated Rangers in their last two home matches, but they have not been able to take all three points. First, they were able to salvage a draw against Rangers in January 2022 thanks to an equalizer scored by Matthew Wright in the 96th minute. Then, they were dealt a narrow 1-0 loss against Rangers in December thanks to a first-half goal scored by John Lundstram.

Rangers and PSV Eindhoven battled out an entertaining 2-2 draw in the first leg of their Champions League playoff encounter on Wednesday night at Ibrox, a year after sharing the spoils by the same scoreline, in the same stadium, and in the same round of the league. The visitors from the Netherlands were able to salvage a draw by coming back twice and scoring against the home team. Rabbi Matondo's goal in the 76th minute was followed just four minutes later by an equalizer from Luuk de Jong. Ibrahim Sangare was the first player to cancel out the first-half opener scored by Abdallah Sima. Michael Beale would be thrilled to experience a sense of déjà vu once more the following week if it meant that his Rangers team would have a better chance of advancing to the group stage of the Champions League in 2023–24. Rangers have now gone five games without suffering a defeat in all competitions since suffering a 1-0 defeat at the hands of Kilmarnock on the opening weekend of the new Scottish Premiership season. Despite this, the Gers have appeared fragile in defense, as they have only managed to keep one clean sheet during this stretch. Despite this, Rangers will go into Saturday's match against Ross County feeling confident that they can extend their current unbeaten streak, given that they have never lost any of their previous 21 matches against Ross County across all competitions.

Ross County possible starting lineup:

Laidlaw, Baldwin, Leak, Harmon, Brown, Randall, Loturi, Turner, Sims, Brophy, White

Rangers possible starting lineup:

Butland, Tavernier, Goldson, Davies, Barisic, Raskin, Lundstram, Dowell; Cantwell, Danilo, Lammers

Ross County, who have already scored twice against defending champions Celtic this season, although in a 4-2 loss, will be optimistic about their chances of finding the back of the net against a Rangers defense that is prone to giving up goals. However, even if Beale decides to make a number of substitutions in his starting lineup for Saturday's game, the Gers should still have enough quality in their roster to outscore their opponents and eke out a victory via hard work.