Rangers 5-1 St. Johnstone: result and report

Premiership · Sunday 23 September 2018

Result

Rangers 5-1 St. Johnstone

Premiership · Sunday 23 September 2018, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

Rangers · St. Johnstone · Premiership predictions

Rangers 5-1 St. Johnstone: match report

Rangers beat St. Johnstone 5-1 in the Premiership on Sunday 23 September 2018. The half-time score was 2-0.

James Tavernier opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Rangers's goals came from James Tavernier (9'), Alfredo Morelos (34'), Scott Arfield (52'), Kyle Lafferty (74') and Daniel Candeias (79'). St. Johnstone scored through Blair Alston (77', penalty).

Discipline: Rangers received no yellow cards; St. Johnstone received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Rangers were 7th on 8 points from 5 and St. Johnstone 8th on 8 points from 5. Rangers went on to finish that season 2nd with 78 points, and St. Johnstone 6th with 52.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Rangers wins, 3 draws and 1 for St. Johnstone.

Going into the match Rangers's last five read W-L-D-W-D and St. Johnstone's D-W-W-D-L.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 9'Goal · James TavernierRangers · 1-0
  • 30'Yellow card · R. FosterSt. Johnstone
  • 34'Goal · Alfredo MorelosRangers · 2-0
  • 52'Goal · Scott ArfieldRangers · 3-0
  • 70'Yellow card · Jason KerrSt. Johnstone
  • 74'Goal · Kyle LaffertyRangers · 4-0
  • 75'Yellow card · Danny SwansonSt. Johnstone
  • 77'Penalty goal · Blair AlstonSt. Johnstone · 4-1
  • 79'Goal · Daniel CandeiasRangers · 5-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Rangers 6, draws 3, St. Johnstone 1.

Team news

Rangers line-up

Allan McGregor, James Tavernier, Connor Goldson, Nikola Katic, Ross McCrorie, Daniel Candeias, Lassana Coulibaly, Scott Arfield, Ryan Kent, Alfredo Morelos, Jon Flanagan

St. Johnstone line-up

Zander Clark, Scott Tanser, Joe Shaughnessy, Jason Kerr, Richard Foster, Blair Alston, Drey Wright, David Wotherspoon, Tony Watt, Matty Kennedy, Liam Craig