Falkirk vs Rangers — Tips & Analysis

Rangers -0.75: Falkirk cannot score right now. They have managed one goal in three league games and are making almost nothing in front of goal. That is the strongest reason to back Rangers here. Falkirk have been leaking goals at home too. They have lost six of their last nine there and let in more than 2 goals a game. None of those nine home games was tied, so this tends to go one way or the other. Their injury list makes it worse. Yeats, Gardner, Sibbald, Lang, Laidlaw, Adams and Nesbitt are all reported out. Rangers are not flying either. They sit seventh after a slow start and have won 8 and lost 7 of their last 17. But they score more than 2 goals a game, and they have far more quality up front than this Falkirk side can handle. Rangers have also won 7 of the last 13 meetings. A 0-2 away win is the likely shape, built on Falkirk's failure to hurt them rather than anything special from Rangers. Now the warning. Rangers come in on three days' rest after winning at Aberdeen, and they travelled to Jablonec for a European tie inside the last week. Changes to the team are likely, and a tired side can slip into a narrow win or worse. We still expect Rangers to have enough in hand.