Rangers vs St Mirren — Scottish Premiership result and pre-match forecast, Wednesday, 9 September 2026

Scottish Premiership·Wednesday, 9 September 2026

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Metis pre-match forecast

Market-anchored distribution

Frozen as published · 15.4 h before kick-off. Never re-computed after the match.

Rangers

74%

pick · result

Draw

16%

St Mirren

10%

Final score

1–0

Top pick landed

Metis gave a Rangers win 74.2% before kick-off, and its most likely result was a Rangers win. Expected goals 2.56–0.71 against 1–0 actual.

Forecast against the result

Over 2.5 goals63%1 scored
Both teams score46%no
Rangers clean sheet49%yes
St Mirren clean sheet9%no
Rangers score 2+71%no
St Mirren score 2+16%no

How this forecast scored

Ranked probability score0.0379
1X2 Brier score0.1018
Probability on the result74.2%

Both scores are losses: lower is better, 0 is a forecast that put all of its probability on what happened. A single fixture says nothing on its own — the league's running record is on its league page, and the model is measured against the Pinnacle opening price in the methodology.

Most likely scores before kick-off: 2–0 (11.9%), 3–0 (10.7%), 1–0 (8.4%). It finished 1–0 — one of them.

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Rangers

31 JulAvs Dundee Utd1–1D
9 AugHvs Hibernian1–2L
30 AugAvs Aberdeen1–0W
2 SeptAvs Falkirk2–1W
5 SeptHvs Motherwell1–0W

St Mirren

1 AugAvs Falkirk2–0W
8 AugHvs St Johnstone1–0W
30 AugHvs Motherwell3–3D
2 SeptAvs Kilmarnock1–0W
5 SeptHvs Celtic1–2L

Head to head

No previous meetings in the Metis results archive for this competition.

Model context

StatRangers
(Home · 5 matches)
St Mirren
(Away · 6 matches)
BTTS rate40.0%16.7%
Over 2.5 rate60.0%33.3%
Clean sheet60.0%33.3%
Avg goals2.602.33

Home stats use Rangers's home record; away stats use St Mirren's away record this season. These are completed-match rates over the samples shown above, not model probabilities — early in a season a handful of matches produces 0% and 100% readings.