Glenavon U20 will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 25 points behind Cliftonville U20.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Glenavon U20 and Cliftonville U20.
Glenavon U20 form and stats
3 victories, 0 draws and 5 defeats. That’s what Glenavon U20 have to build on here in the Premiership Development League. The happy trend is alive also outside their own arena as Glenavon U20 has won their last four matches. Glenavon U20 has recorded two wins in a row here, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper not having conceded a league goal in 270 minutes.
A good away victory last time out for Glenavon U20, who won 1-0 against Warrenpoint Town U20 (placed 12th). Previous to that game, a home match hosting Ballymena United U20 in a game that was won 4-0.
Glenavon U20 are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here in their league games, having scored an impressive 20 goals in 8 matches. Defensively there's plenty of potential for improvement as Glenavon U20 have allowed the opposition to score 24 goals here. Glenavon U20 have allowed more than three conceded goals on average in their home matches so far.
Cliftonville U20 form and stats
Cliftonville U20's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Cliftonville U20, who have the the best goal difference (+44) in Premiership Development League, collect 22 points from their 9 away matches in the Premiership Development League. 7 victories and 1 draw have created these points (and only 1 defeat). Impressively, the visitors are on a six-match winning run which they hope continue versus Glenavon U20. Cliftonville U20 have won three away matches in a row now and will not be intimidated by being the visitors in this fixture.
Cliftonville U20 won their last game, 4-1 versus Larne U20 played at home. Ahead of that match was the victory versus Coleraine U20 at their stadium, the result 4-0.
Cliftonville U20 are a potent attacking force on the road with their 25 goals in 9 league games. As opposed to that, Cliftonville U20 have seen the ball go into their own net 13 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
The most recent history between these sides is the Cliftonville U20 - Glenavon U20 8-2 played earlier this season. Numbers for the last five meetings between these two teams are: 2 wins for Glenavon U20, 1 draw and 2 wins for Cliftonville U20. Over 2,5 goals: 5 times; under 2,5 goals: 0 games.Glenavon U20 missing players
Cliftonville U20 missing players
| Glenavon U20 | Cliftonville U20 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 8 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 9 | 18 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 7 | 16 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | 5 | 3 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 46 | 20 | 4 | Scored | S | 8 | 25 | 64 |
| 59 | 24 | 17 | Conceded | C | 1 | 13 | 20 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 95% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 89% | 89% |
| 90% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 78% | 83% |
| 70% | 62% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 67% | 72% |
| 55% | 50% | 67% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 44% | 56% |
| 75% | 62% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 56% | 50% |
| 20% | 25% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 33% | 44% |
| 5% | 12% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 11% | 6% |
| 5.9 | 7 | 4 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 5 | 4 | 6 |
| 4.8 | 5.3 | 6 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 1 | 4.8 | 3.6 |
| 0.5 | 0.3 | 1 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2 | 1.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 153 | 44 | 16 | Total Shots | T S | 17 | 41 | 103 |
| 78 | 23 | 9 | Shots on Target | S O | 10 | 21 | 56 |
| 35% | 43% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 52% | 48% |
- All of Glenavon U20's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Cliftonville U20 has the fewest conceded goals (20)
- Cliftonville U20 has the most points (22) away
- Cliftonville U20 has the most scored goals in the second half (16)
- Cliftonville U20 has the the best goal difference (+44)
- 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)
- Glenavon U20 has the most matches over the total-line (10)
- Glenavon U20 has the most scored goals in the first half (20)
- Glenavon U20 have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Glenavon U20 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 18 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 64 | 20 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 13 | 44 | 49 |
| 2 | Crusaders U20 | 21 | 16 | 1 | 4 | 65 | 26 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 33 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 32 | 17 | 39 | 49 |
| 3 | Linfield U20 | 18 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 65 | 23 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 31 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 34 | 12 | 42 | 39 |
| 4 | Dungannon Swifts U20 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 36 | 24 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 12 | 31 |
| 5 | Glentoran U20 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 43 | 38 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 19 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 28 | 19 | 5 | 25 |
| 6 | Carrick Rangers U20 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 34 | 33 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 22 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 25 |
| 7 | Glenavon U20 | 20 | 8 | 0 | 12 | 46 | 59 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 20 | 24 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 26 | 35 | -13 | 24 |
| 8 | Coleraine U20 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 45 | 46 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 25 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 23 | -1 | 23 |
| 9 | Ballymena United U20 | 19 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 27 | 44 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 17 | 22 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 22 | -17 | 18 |
| 10 | Larne U20 | 20 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 23 | 60 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 27 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 33 | -37 | 18 |
| 11 | Institute U20 | 19 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 21 | 52 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 17 | 23 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 29 | -31 | 14 |
| 12 | Warrenpoint Town U20 | 18 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 56 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 26 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 30 | -44 | 8 |