St Mirren vs Rangers Prediction: Gers to hit the Gas late in 7/1 pick

| Saturday 14th March 2026, 12:00pm

Saturday 14th March 2026, 12:00pm

With one side having lost their manager this week and the other coming off a trouble-marred cup exit, Sunday’s Scottish Premiership clash between St Mirren and Rangers at the Smisa Stadium takes on even greater importance (12:00 GMT, Sky Sports Football & Main Event).

Stephen Robinson’s departure leaves the Buddies in a bind with some crucial league and cup fixtures to come, while the Gers need a string of wins to stay in the title picture. My St Mirren vs Rangers predictions, the latest team news and Betfred’s match odds follow below.

St Mirren vs Rangers Betting Tips

Only Rangers to Score @ 7/4
Djeidi Gassama Last Goalscorer @ 7/1

*odds correct at time of publication

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Team News

Having seen Robinson head out of the door this week to take over at Aberdeen, St Mirren welcome Rangers to Paisley with Craig McLeish, Jamie Langfield and Allan McManus in temporary charge.

There shouldn’t be too many changes expected from the team which saw off Partick Thistle in the Scottish Cup quarter-finals last weekend.

That would mean goalscorers Dan Nlundulu and Jake Young leading the line once more, but Marcus Fraser is an enforced absentee having left the field with an injury in the first half of the 2-1 success over the Championship club.

Mikael Mandron, Jonah Ayunga, Conor McMenamin and Kion Etete all miss out, with the latter having pulled up in the warm-up last Sunday.

Having said last week that he had a “full house” in training, Danny Rohl could welcome any of Connor Barron, Derek Cornelius and Oliver Antman back into the matchday 20.

There is one setback for the Bears though, with Mohamed Diomande missing with a shoulder injury. That should mean Tochi Chukwuani returns to the starting XI to partner Nico Raskin in midfield.

At the back, Nasser Djiga and Dujon Sterling are likely to continue in the places of John Souttar and James Tavernier.

St Mirren vs Rangers Predicted Lineups

St Mirren: George; King, Gogic, Freckleton; Richardson, Phillips, Baccus, O’Hara, John; Nlundulu, Young
Rangers: Butland; Sterling, Djiga, Fernandez, Rommens; Raskin, Chukwuani; Skov Olsen, Moore; Naderi, Chermiti

St Mirren vs Rangers Odds

Rangers, as ever, are the favourites for this crucial fixture, with their 8/13 price implying a 61.9% probability of an away win.

The Buddies are 4/1 to overcome the blow of Robinson’s exit to claim three valuable points. The draw is a 3/1 shot.

It’s 5/6 for Both Teams to Score, and the same price is available for one or both sides to be kept scoreless.

A Rangers win despite a goal concession? That’s 23/10.

St Mirren vs Rangers Stats

Rangers have won only 1 of the last 5 meetings, having been triumphant in 24 of the 27 prior to that run (D2, L1)
The Gers have kept 5 clean sheets in the 7 domestic games Nasser Djiga and Manny Fernandez have started together at centre-back
6 of Djeidi Gassama’s 8 goals (75%) for Rangers have been the last of the game
17 of the Frenchman’s 22 goals (77.2%) in senior football have been scored in the second half

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Only Rangers To Score @ 7/4

They might have failed to many too many chances of a notable quality in their eventual penalty defeat to Celtic last Sunday, but Rangers looked sturdier at the back than they had done for a number of weeks.

That won’t have come as a surprise to fans of Djiga and Fernandez. While they have both looked unsteady at different points in games across the season, they have proven to be an excellent centre-back pairing thus far.

Rohl has been cut-throat with some of his most experienced players, regularly dropping club captain Tavernier for the biggest occasions this year and more recently deposing Souttar in favour of Djiga.

The latter in particular seemed impossible earlier in the campaign, but the Burkina Faso international has truly stepped up and looks like the perfect solid dovetail to Fernandez’s cultured, long-striding excellence.

Given the week St Mirren have endured, they would be forgiven for thinking their race will be run in other league fixtures before the season’s out.

St Mirren vs Rangers - Which Team to Score

Only Rangers

7/4

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Djeidi Gassama Last Goalscorer @ 7/1

It took one glance at Gassama’s face as he walked towards the Copland Road Stand to know that he wasn’t going to find the target.

The former Sheffield Wednesday and Paris Saint-Germain attacker looks stroppy and sullen when he is not enjoying his football, yet he can look like a supremely dangerous attacker when let loose on back-pedalling defences late on in games.

Gassama shouldn’t start this game. And when he does come on, it ought not to be on the right-hand side from which he has struggled for most of the season.

So long as he is given the opportunity to come on and storm at St Mirren’s back-line from the left, though, he could well make a very telling impact late on.

Six of his eight Rangers goals have come as the final say in fixtures, and one has to believe he has a great chance of doing the same again on Sunday.

St Mirren vs Rangers - Last Goalscorer

Djeidi Gassama

7/1

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Odds correct at time of publishing.

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