Scottish Premiership picks: Your guide to this weekend’s top-flight action

For the second weekend running, Rangers are involved in a second v third contest, with St Mirren the latest team to head the chasing pack behind the Old Firm.

The Paisley side have put together a run of five wins from six, including a 2-0 home success over leaders Celtic.

On that occasion, they snuffed out Celtic’s attacking threat with well-organised pressing and aggressive defending while hitting on the break with impressive speed. They had a mere 20% possession in the game but rarely looked troubled.

The visitors are likely to again spend long spells without the ball at Ibrox as Rangers look to build on a comfortable win away to Hearts, which came before the Champions League defeat at Anfield.

Liverpool were quicker and stronger than Rangers all over the pitch and manager Giovanni van Bronckhorst may want to rest some weary legs ahead of the return game in Glasgow next week.

St Mirren have issues in attack, with Jonah Ayunga banned and Eamonn Brophy injured, but the hosts can reintroduce Antonio Colak, top of the Scottish Premiership scoring chart, after he was limited to about 20 second-half minutes on Tuesday.

Rangers have been victorious in all four home league games this season, scoring 12 and conceding just one – and they are on a 12-game winning run against St Mirren in the competition.

The Buddies haven’t even managed a top-flight goal at Ibrox since 2012 and last earned a point at the stadium the year before that.