St Mirren vs Rangers Predictions

St. Mirren vs Rangers predictions for this Scottish Premiership action at The SMISA Stadium. St Mirren host Rangers Sunday, with both clubs still chasing their first victory of the 2025-26 Scottish Premiership season. Read on for all our free Scottish Premiership predictions and betting tips. 

Scottish Premiership  | Aug 24 2025 at 12:00 pm UK at The SMISA Stadium

St Mirren vs Rangers Predictions

Can the Gers Finally Find Their Spark?

• St Mirren’s home scoring habit: The Saints have netted in nine of their last ten home games, showing they usually find a way to hit the target in Paisley.
• Rangers’ leaky backline: The Gers have conceded in six of their last seven matches across all competitions, with early goals becoming a recurring problem.
• BTTS trend: Both teams have scored in six of Rangers’ last seven games, and with St Mirren’s home record, this trend is likely to continue.

Best Bet for St Mirren vs Rangers

Sunday afternoon in Paisley is shaping up to be a test of nerve rather than just skill. St Mirren, the team who have made a habit of finishing just outside Europe, will lock horns with a Rangers side that already look like they’re carrying the weight of the world only two games into the Premiership season. Both sides are still hunting for their first league victory, and for different reasons, neither can really afford to stumble again.

St Mirren have endured a frustrating start: a cruel late loss to Celtic on the opening day and a goalless stalemate against Motherwell. They’ve shown defensive steel, but they are yet to score a league goal, which must be driving their manager up the wall. That said, knocking out Hearts in the League Cup on penalties may have given them the injection of belief needed to stare down Rangers at home.

Rangers, meanwhile, are a mess. Let’s be honest, failing to win either of their first two league games for the first time since 1989 is embarrassing enough, but then to concede three goals in 20 minutes to Club Brugge midweek? That’s more than just bad luck. It’s chaos. Russell Martin badly needs a win here—not for momentum, not for pride, but simply to avoid sparking a full-blown crisis.

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Best Bet for St Mirren vs Rangers

Here at BettingTips4You, we don’t believe in giving you ten different tips and letting you drown in indecision. We deliver one clear best bet per game, the single prediction that we truly back. For this fixture, our Best Bet is: Both Teams to Score – Yes.

Why this? Well, despite their current misery, Rangers have scored in most of their recent games, and St Mirren have been stubborn but not airtight at the back. When you combine Rangers’ desperation to end their winless streak with St Mirren’s knack for nicking goals at home, it smells like a game where both nets will bulge.

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Why Back This Prediction

It might sound counterintuitive to suggest goals when St Mirren haven’t even managed one in the league yet, but context matters. They created chances against Celtic and Motherwell, and in the Cup against Hearts they showed that with enough grit, they can find a breakthrough. Their forwards, Mikael Mandron and Toyosi Ayunga, have been lively even if not clinical, and you get the feeling they’re due.

Rangers, for all their problems, do not lack firepower. Danilo, Rabbi Matondo, or even James Tavernier from the spot are always threats. The bigger issue is at the back, where they look shaky, especially with Nasser Djiga suspended. Conceding early to Brugge was not an anomaly; it highlighted the frailties we’ve already seen in the league.

As BettingTips4You expert Steve Harrington put it:

“Rangers may have the bigger names, but right now their defence leaks like a sieve. St Mirren aren’t prolific, but they’re brave and at home that bravery usually pays off. Both teams scoring feels inevitable.”

It’s rare that both camps are this jittery at the same time, and that’s exactly why backing BTTS is the most sensible call. Rangers need to attack, St Mirren have nothing to lose, and history shows that when pressure meets desperation, mistakes—and goals—are never far behind.

A likely correct score? 1-1 feels written in the stars. St Mirren will surely fancy their chances to expose Rangers’ fragility, but the Gers should also do enough to at least claw one back. A draw might not save Russell Martin’s job in the long run, but in this fixture, it looks the most balanced outcome.

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