Premiership: The average league table placements shows the journey Ballymena United and Carrick Rangers have undertaken uptil now. Both participants are eager to play; let's bake this cake!
- Ballymena United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Carrick Rangers have the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Premiership
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Premiership.
Ballymena United form and stats
All-inclusive Premiership results playing at home this season for Ballymena United are 2-1-2 (wins-draws-losses).
The fans are hoping that Ballymena will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-4 away loss in the Premiership game against Glentoran (placed 4th). As you see from the result above, Ballymena United suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one.
Ahead of that match, Ballymena won a home game hosting Linfield (3-1).The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Ballymena matches with similar probabilities have ended with one win, zero draws and one defeat (from two games).
The Ballymena fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 6 in 5 matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Ballymena defense is not exactly impregnable. 8 goals conceded from 5 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Carrick Rangers form and stats
There's been little loot from Carrick Rangers's travels as they have only collected 5 points from 6 away games in the Premiership. Carrick Rangers only have 1 win to counter their 3 defeats and 2 draws.
Home advantage was not enough for Carrick in their previous game, as they lost their Premiership-match, hosting Crusaders, 0-2.
A 2-2 draw at Portadown's stadium before that.Looking at the earlier recent performances of Carrick when being an outsider away as they are today, we find three matches with the visitors losing one time, drawing one and winning one game.
The visiting Carrick Rangers have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 7 goals from 6 games. As for defending, Carrick rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 10 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
The fixture lists shows this result when the teams faced each other previously this campaign; Carrick Rangers - Ballymena 2-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's seven Ballymena United victories, zero draws and three Carrick Rangers wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  D. Kelly 3 goals | L. Anderson 3 goals |  L. Millar 2 goals |
Ballymena United missing players
Carrick Rangers missing players
| Ballymena United | Carrick Rangers | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 5 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 11 | 6 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 7 | 11 |
| 23 | 8 | 1 | Conceded | C | 4 | 10 | 18 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 83% | 85% |
| 67% | 60% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 83% | 69% |
| 58% | 40% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 46% |
| 25% | 20% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 50% | 23% |
| 17% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 42% | 40% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 23% |
| 25% | 20% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 38% |
| 33% | 40% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 50% | 54% |
| 5 | 5.6 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 4.8 | 5.5 |
| 5.8 | 4.4 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 4.8 | 4.9 |
| 1.8 | 1.8 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.6 | 1.2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6.5 | 8 | 2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6 | 7.6 | 8.3 |
| 2.7 | 3.8 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 2.6 | 3.2 |
| 34% | 32% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 23% | 18% |
| 9.8 | 9.6 | 6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7 | 9.6 | 8.8 |
| 4.8 | 5.4 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 5.2 | 4.5 |
- Ballymena United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Ballymena United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Carrick Rangers have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Carrick Rangers have the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Premiership
| 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 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 26 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 16 | 32 |
| 2 | Larne | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 27 |
| 3 | Coleraine | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 25 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 16 | 25 |
| 4 | Glentoran | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 24 |
| 5 | Linfield | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 22 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 15 | 23 |
| 6 | Crusaders | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 22 |
| 7 | Carrick Rangers | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -7 | 15 |
| 8 | Ballymena United | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 23 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 15 | -12 | 13 |
| 9 | Glenavon | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 8 | -2 | 10 |
| 10 | Portadown | 13 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 29 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 15 | -16 | 7 |
| 11 | Dungannon Swifts | 11 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 16 | 32 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 17 | -16 | 6 |
| 12 | Warrenpoint Town | 12 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 10 | 33 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 24 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 9 | -23 | 3 |