Scottish Premiership: Dundee Utd v Rangers, Lawrence Shankland and Martin O’Neill in spotlight

To be fair to Rangers, they remain unbeaten in 17 away league games stretching into the end of last season as they travel to face Dundee United.

However, Sunday’s goalless draw at home to Falkirk highlighted that little has changed for the Ibrox side since Russell Martin was replaced with Danny Rohl as head coach.

It was a 1-1 draw away to the Bairns in October that put paid to Martin’s short reign and that was followed by a 2-2 draw with United at Ibrox while managerless Rangers decided who should be his successor.

Rohl had won four Premiership games in a row until the Bairns came calling, but overall they have won just two of their past six outings as the German has been hampered by the same shortcomings to his squad as his predecessor.

Rangers have still only suffered one league defeat all season, but it is draws that are hampering them and they cannot afford to fall more than the current seven points behind Celtic and nine off Hearts.

After their own 1-1 draw away to Kilmarnock on Saturday, United have themselves now shared the points on six of their 13 Premiership outings, including that visit to Ibrox.

However, since then, Jim Goodwin’s eighth-placed side have won once – their only victory in eight outings – and have gone four games without one.

To make matters worse for the Irishman, he has not experienced a win in 16 games against Rangers as a manager, losing 14 of them.

Not only that, but Rangers are unbeaten in 11 meetings with United since a 1-0 defeat at Tannadice in August 2021, including four visits there in which they have drawn once and won the latest three.

Currently Rangers, though, are struggling to score goals and Goodwin will hope that gives his side a chance of improving on just one clean sheet in their past seven home games.