Sports Mole previews Sunday’s Scottish Premiership clash between Rangers and St Mirren, including predictions, team news and possible lineups.
In their final match of a tumultuous 2021, Scottish Premiership leaders Rangers welcome St Mirren to Ibrox on Boxing Day.
With the season set to be prematurely paused for the mid-season break, the relentless reigning champions will take on opponents who defied the odds to hold their Glasgow rivals to a draw on Wednesday.
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Sitting comfortably atop the Premiership table as the year comes to a close, Rangers will expect to complete their jam-packed schedule by getting the better of a depleted visiting side on Sunday.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst‘s team have now won their last seven league matches to open a six-point gap over Old Firm foes Celtic, who virus-stricken St Mirren miraculously held goalless in midweek.
It may have taken a 71st-minute James Tavernier penalty to separate the sides in the Govan club’s last outing, at home to Dundee United, but Rangers still managed to record a fifth successive Premiership…
