This league campaign has been rough for Ballymena United up to now, while Cliftonville have enjoyed many victories. Will the guests win again at The Showgrounds?
- Ballymena United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Cliftonville is in the best form (4-2-0)
This should be an engrossing match with lots of fun and bustle as both teams are well renewed since they last saw competitive action. Bring it on!
Ballymena's stadium, The Showgrounds, has a grass surface. Cliftonville have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Cliftonville when playing on grass; 15 wins, 12 draws and 14 losses from 41 matches. They have scored 52 goals in these games and conceded 44.
Ballymena United form and stats
The story so far in the Premiership for Ballymena United at their home stadium (The Showgrounds) is 1 win, 1 draw and 1 defeat.
Ballymena enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Portadown's place. The match ended 1-0.
Before that match, a Irish League Cup win away at Crusaders (after extra-time).The Ballymena fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 5 goals in 3 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Ballymena defense is not exactly impregnable. 5 goals conceded from 3 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Cliftonville form and stats
Cliftonville are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Premiership, having played 3 games and collected 5 points (1 win, 2 draws and 0 losses).
Impressive finishing secured the home win 2-1 against Larne in their previous game.
A 1-1 draw at Linfield's stadium before that.The schedule is very tough for Cliftonville now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Irish League Cup game at Ards is waiting in only three days.
The travelling fans enjoy Cliftonville's attacking play in away games, having scored 5 goals in 3 league matches away. As opposed to that, Cliftonville have seen the ball go into their own net 3 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Ballymena four wins, three draws and Cliftonville three victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Gormley 4 goals |  L. Millar 2 goals | J. Smith 2 goals |
Ballymena United missing players
Cliftonville missing players
| Ballymena United | Cliftonville | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | 5 | 0 | Scored | S | 3 | 5 | 13 |
| 16 | 5 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 75% | 67% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 75% |
| 62% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 33% | 50% |
| 25% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 33% | 12% |
| 25% | 33% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 62% | 67% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 75% |
| 12% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 25% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 4.1 | 4.3 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 4.7 | 5.1 |
| 5.2 | 4.7 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 5.3 | 3.2 |
| 1.6 | 1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0.7 | 0.9 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6.2 | 8.7 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 15 | 9.7 | 9.8 |
| 2.6 | 3.7 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 3 | 4.5 |
| 43% | 45% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 75% | 56% | 36% |
- All of Cliftonville's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Ballymena United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Cliftonville have not yet lost a game.
- Cliftonville have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Cliftonville have scored in all their matches so far.
- Cliftonville have the most points from losing position (8) in Premiership
- Cliftonville haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Cliftonville is in the best form (4-2-0)
| 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 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 20 |
| 2 | Linfield | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 13 | 18 |
| 3 | Larne | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 16 |
| 4 | Coleraine | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 10 | 15 |
| 5 | Crusaders | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 13 |
| 6 | Glentoran | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 13 |
| 7 | Carrick Rangers | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 13 |
| 8 | Glenavon | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| 9 | Ballymena United | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 11 | -7 | 7 |
| 10 | Portadown | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -10 | 4 |
| 11 | Dungannon Swifts | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 14 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 9 | -10 | 3 |
| 12 | Warrenpoint Town | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | -16 | 3 |