This has the potential to be an appealing match as Ballymena United have their presumed home advantage, while Linfield have an edge of 22 points in the Premiership table.
- Ballymena United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Linfield have the fewest conceded goals (19) in Premiership
Linfield could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Premiership game only four sleeps ago. That game, against Carrick Rangers, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Linfield.
Ballymena United form and stats
Ballymena United have played 14 Premiership games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 8-3-3 (wins-draws-losses).
Ballymena travelled for their previous game, a trip to Coleraine that ended 1-1.
The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 3-3 versus Glenavon.Ballymena United are traveling soon after this match as the Premiership match at Portadown awaits in four days.
A decent goal production from Ballymena in their home games so far, with 23 goals from 14 league matches. Ballymena United's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 16 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Linfield form and stats
8 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Linfield, who have the fewest conceded goals (19) in Premiership, playing as the away team in the Premiership this season.
Two travels in a row for Linfield, whose manager Healy could celebrate last time after the win against Carrick Rangers.
Before that, Linfield secured a home win against Portadown with the score 1-0.The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Crusaders in just three days.
Linfield has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 27 goals from 15 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (14 so far).
Head 2 Head
The two teams involved faced each other earlier on this season: Linfield - Ballymena United 1-0. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Ballymena victories, zero draws and eight Linfield wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  C. Manzinga 17 goals |   P. McElroy 8 goals | L. Millar 4 goals |
Ballymena United missing players
Linfield missing players
| Ballymena United | Linfield | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 28 | 14 | 4 | Played | P | 5 | 15 | 29 |
| 12 | 8 | 2 | Won | W | 2 | 8 | 18 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 12 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| 33 | 23 | 5 | Scored | S | 6 | 27 | 50 |
| 39 | 16 | 6 | Conceded | C | 6 | 14 | 19 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 80% | 87% | 93% |
| 64% | 64% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 80% | 73% | 72% |
| 50% | 50% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 80% | 67% | 45% |
| 21% | 29% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 14% |
| 11% | 14% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 13% | 7% |
| 39% | 43% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 40% | 47% | 41% |
| 29% | 36% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 40% | 40% | 52% |
| 32% | 21% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 40% | 27% | 14% |
| 4.3 | 4.7 | 6.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.2 | 6.2 | 6.7 |
| 6.3 | 5.4 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.8 | 4.1 | 4 |
| 1.7 | 1.8 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.7 | 1.6 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 7.2 | 8.4 | 7.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5.8 | 6.6 | 7.8 |
| 3.2 | 4.1 | 3.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.2 | 3 | 3.9 |
| 38% | 40% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 55% | 60% | 45% |
| 9.5 | 9.5 | 10 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 6 | 7.7 | 6.8 |
| 4.4 | 4.5 | 5.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.2 | 2.5 | 2.2 |
- Ballymena United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Linfield have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Linfield have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Linfield have the fewest conceded goals (19) in Premiership
- Linfield have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (10) in Premiership
- Linfield have the most matches under the total-line (15) in Premiership
- Linfield have the most scored goals in the first half (28) in Premiership
- Linfield have the the best goal difference (+31) 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 | Linfield | 29 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 50 | 19 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 23 | 5 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 27 | 14 | 31 | 62 |
| 2 | Glentoran | 29 | 19 | 5 | 5 | 56 | 30 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 28 | 17 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 28 | 13 | 26 | 62 |
| 3 | Cliftonville | 29 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 48 | 24 | 16 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 29 | 11 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 19 | 13 | 24 | 61 |
| 4 | Larne | 30 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 53 | 33 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 24 | 13 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 29 | 20 | 20 | 51 |
| 5 | Crusaders | 28 | 15 | 4 | 9 | 36 | 21 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 9 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 19 | 12 | 15 | 49 |
| 6 | Coleraine | 29 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 43 | 24 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 25 | 8 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 16 | 19 | 45 |
| 7 | Ballymena United | 28 | 12 | 4 | 12 | 33 | 39 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 23 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 23 | -6 | 40 |
| 8 | Glenavon | 29 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 40 | 39 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 17 | 22 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 23 | 17 | 1 | 38 |
| 9 | Dungannon Swifts | 28 | 8 | 1 | 19 | 35 | 68 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 20 | 36 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 15 | 32 | -33 | 25 |
| 10 | Carrick Rangers | 29 | 6 | 5 | 18 | 28 | 51 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 15 | 25 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 26 | -23 | 23 |
| 11 | Portadown | 29 | 3 | 8 | 18 | 23 | 59 | 14 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 20 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 39 | -36 | 17 |
| 12 | Warrenpoint Town | 29 | 3 | 3 | 23 | 24 | 62 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 15 | 38 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 24 | -38 | 12 |
