Rangers manager Pedro Caixinha has told BT Sport that Kenny Miller's absence from his squad is due to injury.

Caixinha said of tonight's game: "We know that we need to win today."

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A development on the Scotland front. Arguably the favourite to replace Gordon Strachan, David Moyes says he would not turn down the Scotland job - but his first choice is to return to club management.

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Don Robertson is the referee in the Fair City this evening, assisted by Alasdair Ross and Ralph Gordon, with Greg Aitken the fourth official.

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Why not nab some of these statistics for your pre-match chat with your friends? They're sure to be impressed...as they tuck your scarf into your anorak.

• St Johnstone have beaten Rangers just three times in the Scottish Premiership from 28 attempts (D5 L20). Their last victory came at McDiarmid Park in March 2010 (4-1).
• Each of St Johnstone's three league victories against Rangers have come away from home at Ibrox.
• St Johnstone have won five of their last seven at McDiarmid Park (D1 L1).
• After losing three in succession, Rangers are now unbeaten in their last nine away games (W6 D3), despite keeping only two clean sheets.
• Rangers' Graham Dorrans has scored or assisted four of Rangers' last five league goals.

Secondly, these are worrying times for Hamilton as they announce that they have been defrauded and have lost a "substantial sum".

The Scottish Professional Football League chief executive Neil Doncaster said: "Hamilton Academical have informed us that they have been the victim of a sophisticated financial fraud and that Police Scotland are carrying out an investigation.

"This is clearly a very serious and unfortunate situation and everyone in the game will hope it can be resolved quickly."

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There have been a few big stories in Scottish football today, in case you missed them.

First, the Scottish Football Association's performance director Malky Mackay will take interim charge of the Scotland team, following Gordon Strachan's departure on Thursday.

The former Watford, Cardiff and Wigan manager, 45, will combine the jobs and take the team for the 9 November friendly with Netherlands at Pittodrie.

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Rangers manager Pedro Caixinha thinks his team "need to get back to the basics of defending".

"That's what we have been focused on," he said. The boys did great the previous week when we trained much more intensively.

"This week we have focused on the principles of what we want and expect from the game. What we expect is: don't let the opponent play their own game, and we want to play our game.

"After these couple of weeks, I think we are much more solid as a team if we defend better and concede less goals, because the difference of the goals scored is almost nothing from the teams that are leading the league.

"We want to keep going in attack but we want to improve defending, so that's what we have been working on these two weeks."

Murray Davidson, Saints' classy midfielder, had this to say about tonight's match when he spoke to the media earlier in the week:"We were well short against Aberdeen - we knew that right after the game.

"We didn't do well enough in a lot of areas. It's been a long couple of weeks after a defeat and the international break.

"We've got a chance to put it right on Friday, to go and get a positive result.

"What better way is there to bounce back than getting a result against Rangers? We know we're capable. If we learn the lessons from Pittodrie, we'll be OK."

St Johnstone: Mannus, Comrie, Shaughnessy, Anderson, Easton, Wotherspoon, Davidson, Millar, Scougall, Cummings, MacLean.

Substitutes: Clark, Tanser, Johnstone, Paton, Gordon, Craig, Thomson.

Rangers: Foderingham, Tavernier, Cardoso, Alves, John, Candeias, Dorrans, Pena, Holt, Windass, Morelos.

Substitutes: Alnwick, Dalcio, Herrera, Hodson, Nemane, Barjonas, McCrorie.

St Johnstone are unable to call on the talents of their winger Michael O'Halloran. He is on loan from Rangers and is unable to play against his parent club.

Saints' Richard Foster begins a two-match suspension and Rangers midfielder Ryan Jack is also serving a ban.

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Both sides make two changes for tonight's match.

David Wotherspoon and Chris Millar come into the St Johnstone side with Paul Paton and Scott Tanser dropping to the bench.

Bruno Alves returns to the Rangers defence in place of Ross McCrorie while Jason Holt replaces the suspended Ryan Jack.

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Striker Kenny Miller misses out again for Rangers at McDiarmid Park this evening.

Miller returned to training with the first team after being dropped from the squad in Rangers' last game away to Hamilton.

The 37-year-old instead played with the club's under-20s following a fall-out with club manager Pedro Caixinha that came in the wake of Rangers' 2-0 loss to Celtic last month.

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Good evening, all! St Johnstone and Rangers kick off the weekend's Scottish Premiership action. We'll bring you all the match build-up and live text commentary of the action at McDiarmid Park, plus post-match reaction.