Sunday's Scottish Premiership predictions including St Johnstone vs. Rangers

St Johnstone vs. Rangers (Sunday, 12.00pm)

Rangers will look to ramp up pressure on Celtic at the summit of the Scottish Premiership table on Sunday, when they travel to McDiarmid Park to face St Johnstone.

The Glasgow giants come in on the back of their final Champions League group-stage game, a 3-1 defeat at home to Ajax leaving them without a single point on the continent, while they trail rivals Celtic by four points in the title race.

We say: St Johnstone 0-2 Rangers

Even with home advantage and on the back of a confidence-boosting victory last time out, we do not see the hosts challenging Rangers enough to force a result and anticipate Giovanni van Bronckhorst's side dominating the contest and returning to Glasgow with all three points.

Hearts vs. Motherwell (Sunday, 3.00pm)

Two sides separated by a single point in the middle of the Scottish Premiership table will do battle on Sunday, as Hearts welcome Motherwell to Tynecastle Park.

The teams both ended tough runs of form with victories in their last league outing, beating Ross County and Dundee United respectively.

We say: Hearts 2-1 Motherwell

Having relieved some pressure with last week's victory, we back Hearts to rebuild some form given the quality throughout their squad, and they should have enough to take all three points on home turf at the weekend.