Struggling Ballymena United U20 will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Cliftonville U20 in the upcoming league round. It’s 11th vs 1st and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
Ballymena United U20 have less rest than Cliftonville U20 in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Premiership Development League game only four days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus Coleraine U20, was also a home game. The away team is better rested.
Ballymena United U20 form and stats
4 victories, 2 draws and 7 defeats. That’s what Ballymena United U20 have to build on here in the Premiership Development League. Regardless of arena the trend is looking very unhealthy for Ballymena United U20 with their four defeats in a row. Not since the Crusaders U20 game, 28 days ago, have they avoided a loss.
The Ballymena United U20 crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-5 to Coleraine U20 here in a Premiership Development League match. A defeat was the result before that one, 1-4 away at Linfield U20.
Ballymena United U20 were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.
Ballymena United U20 can score goals in their home matches. After 13 league matches they have found the net 28 times. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Ballymena United U20 with 29 goals conceded in these matches.
Cliftonville U20 form and stats
The away performances of Cliftonville U20, who have the the best goal difference (+61) in Premiership Development League, have been very solid so far with 10 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat in the Premiership Development League. The question is whether this happy travelling can continue. In general it has been a productive period now for Cliftonville U20 as they haven't lost any of their last twelve games. Cliftonville U20 has been amazing away for a time now, winning six in a row on their travels. The last time they went home with a point loss was against Dungannon Swifts U20.
Cliftonville U20 are travelling after their nice 5-2 home win in the Premiership Development League against Crusaders U20 (placed 3rd). Before that one, a nice away victory 3-0 at Carrick Rangers U20.
A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for Cliftonville U20, as mentioned above. 7 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun?
Cliftonville U20 are a potent attacking force on the road with their 32 goals in 12 league games. As opposed to that, Cliftonville U20 have seen the ball go into their own net 14 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have met before this season: Cliftonville U20 - Ballymena United U20 3-2. As for the last four games between these two teams, there's zero Ballymena United U20 victories, zero draws and four Cliftonville U20 wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, one match with two goals or less.Ballymena United U20 missing players
Cliftonville U20 missing players
| Ballymena United U20 | Cliftonville U20 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 27 | 13 | 5 | Played | P | 2 | 12 | 24 |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 10 | 22 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | 7 | 3 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 44 | 28 | 12 | Scored | S | 8 | 32 | 88 |
| 71 | 29 | 10 | Conceded | C | 1 | 14 | 27 |
| 93% | 92% | 80% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 93% | 92% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 92% | 92% |
| 81% | 85% | 80% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 75% | 83% |
| 56% | 46% | 40% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 50% | 67% |
| 44% | 38% | 20% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 33% | 54% |
| 67% | 69% | 60% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 50% | 54% |
| 15% | 23% | 20% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 42% | 42% |
| 26% | 15% | 40% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 8% | 4% |
| 2.9 | 3.2 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4.7 | 6.4 |
| 7.2 | 6.6 | 12 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 4.3 | 3.2 |
| 1.8 | 1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.2 | 1.7 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 114 | 46 | 4 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 71 | 173 |
| 61 | 25 | 2 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 33 | 89 |
| 26% | 24% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 48% | 48% |
- Ballymena United U20 have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- Ballymena United U20 have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Cliftonville U20 has the fewest conceded goals (27)
- Cliftonville U20 has the most clean sheets (3) away
- Cliftonville U20 has the most points (31) away
- Cliftonville U20 has the most scored goals in the second half (25)
- Cliftonville U20 has the the best goal difference (+61)
- Cliftonville U20 have created more than twice as many corners as Ballymena United U20.
- Cliftonville U20 have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Cliftonville U20 have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Cliftonville U20 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Cliftonville U20 is in the best form (6-0-0)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Cliftonville U20 | 24 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 88 | 27 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 56 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 32 | 14 | 61 | 67 |
| 2 | Linfield U20 | 26 | 20 | 0 | 6 | 89 | 30 | 16 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 49 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 40 | 12 | 59 | 60 |
| 3 | Crusaders U20 | 27 | 19 | 2 | 6 | 74 | 36 | 14 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 37 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 37 | 23 | 38 | 59 |
| 4 | Dungannon Swifts U20 | 23 | 14 | 2 | 7 | 55 | 46 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 28 | 17 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 27 | 29 | 9 | 44 |
| 5 | Glenavon U20 | 28 | 12 | 0 | 16 | 62 | 68 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 30 | 28 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 32 | 40 | -6 | 36 |
| 6 | Glentoran U20 | 23 | 11 | 1 | 11 | 57 | 47 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 19 | 21 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 38 | 26 | 10 | 34 |
| 7 | Coleraine U20 | 24 | 10 | 2 | 12 | 60 | 59 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 31 | 26 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 29 | 33 | 1 | 32 |
| 8 | Carrick Rangers U20 | 24 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 44 | 50 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 28 | 27 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 23 | -6 | 31 |
| 9 | Larne U20 | 27 | 8 | 3 | 16 | 36 | 78 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 26 | 41 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 37 | -42 | 27 |
| 10 | Institute U20 | 27 | 7 | 3 | 17 | 31 | 69 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 21 | 29 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 40 | -38 | 24 |
| 11 | Ballymena United U20 | 27 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 44 | 71 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 28 | 29 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 16 | 42 | -27 | 22 |
| 12 | Warrenpoint Town U20 | 26 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 18 | 77 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 34 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 43 | -59 | 11 |