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Motherwell vs Rangers
2 Aug 2025, 17:30 · Premiership · 2025/2026
Referee
Steven McLeanPremiership 2025/2026 · 24 matches
As it happened
Match timeline
MotherwellMin
Rangers- 14′⚽
James Tavernier 0-1
Goal · Header
With: Joe Rothwell
Header
Elliot Watt
Yellowcard
Foul
60′- 63′⇄
Lyall Cameron
Substitution
Off: Mohamed Diomandé
- 63′⇄
Cyriel Dessers
Substitution
Off: Danilo
- 64′
Lyall Cameron
Yellowcard
Foul
- ⇄
Stephen O'Donnell
Substitution
Off: Liam Gordon
71′ - 73′⇄
Nedim Bajrami
Substitution
Off: Nicolas Raskin
- 73′⇄
Connor Barron
Substitution
Off: Joe Rothwell
- ⇄
Ibrahim Said
Substitution
Off: Apostolos Stamatelopoulos
79′ - 83′⇄
Óscar Cortés
Substitution
Off: Djeidi Gassama
- 84′
Kieran Dowell
Yellowcard
Time wasting
- ⚽
Emmanuel Longelo 1-1
Goal · Left foot shot
With: Elijah Just
Left foot shot
87′ - 90′
Max Aarons
Yellowcard
Argument
- ⇄
Kofi Balmer
Substitution
Off: Elijah Just
90+1′ - ⇄
Tom Sparrow
Substitution
Off: Callum Slattery
90+1′ - 90+2′
James Tavernier
Yellowcard
Foul
The numbers
Fixture statistics
Green marks the higher recorded number; grey means level. This does not always mean a better performance. A dash means no reported value, not zero.
Individual contributions
Player ratings & full match stats
| Player | Min | G | A | Shots | Key | Tackles | Saves | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90 | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | 7.14 | |
| 90 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 6.61 | |
| 71 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6.36 | |
| 90 | — | — | 2 | — | 2 | — | 7.19 | |
| 90 | 1 | — | 3 | — | 2 | — | 7.68 | |
| 90 | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | 6.47 | |
| 90 | — | — | — | 2 | 4 | — | 7.91 | |
| 90 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | 6.12 | |
| 90 | — | — | 1 | 3 | 1 | — | 7.08 | |
| 90 | — | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | — | 7.90 | |
| 79 | — | — | 5 | 2 | 1 | — | 6.13 | |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 19 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 6.55 | |
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| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 6.30 | |
| 11 | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | 6.77 | |
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Before this match
Recent form
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Motherwell
Latest: Kilmarnock · 3–0
Match stats
14 May 2025, 19:45 · Home vs Kilmarnock · 2024/2025
Rangers
Latest: Hibernian · 2–2
Match stats
17 May 2025, 12:30 · Away vs Hibernian · 2024/2025
The rivalry
Head-to-head record
At Motherwell’s ground: 21 previous meetings, 1 home wins. Past results don’t predict the next match.
Matchup context
Home vs away this season
Compare Motherwell’s home games with Rangers’s away games. For older matches, these season totals may include games played later.
Only stats recorded for both clubs are shown. In the key stats, green marks the more favourable figure, or the higher number where neither is better. Grey means the figures are level.
The number after / is how many matches had that stat.
More team stats
Results & goals
Goal frequencies
Corners
Cards
Shots & play
Chance quality
Season xG
Choose all, home or away games for each club. Green marks higher xG or lower xG against; grey means level.
These are past-match averages, not a prediction for this fixture.
Players
Top scorers and assist makers
Season totals for 2025/2026. These players are not a confirmed lineup.
Motherwell
Yellow cards
Red cards
Tackles
Rangers
Yellow cards
Red cards
Tackles
Expected goals and shot quality
Match counts are shown beside each player.
Expected goals (xG)
Chance quality before the shot.
Motherwell
Rangers
xG on target (xGoT)
Chance quality of shots that reached the target.
Motherwell
Rangers
Shooting performance (xGoT - xG)
Shows whether a player made their chances better or worse with the quality of their shooting. Positive means they generally produced better-placed shots; negative means the shots were worse than the chances suggested.
Motherwell
Rangers
Previous meetings
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