Ballymena United - Newry City AFC: Premiership basement teams scrapping for points and glory. Here are all the interesting numbers and facts before the fixture!
- Ballymena United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Newry City AFC have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Ballymena United form and stats
When playing at home in the Premiership, Ballymena United have managed 2 wins, 1 draw and suffered 3 defeats from 6 games. Two home wins in a row for Ballymena bring valid hopes of a third.
Ballymena United faced defeat in their previous match, away at Glenavon (2-3). The first loss after going undefeated through three league rounds.
1-1 away at Dungannon Swifts before that.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Ballymena United handle that role? We have found 5 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 4 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Ballymena as they are travelling to their away game against Newry City AFC in the Premiership. That match is four days after this one.
Ballymena United are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 7 goals in 6 games. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 10 goals have been conceded.
Newry City AFC form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Newry City AFC so far with only 6 points returning home. The records show 2-0-4 (win-draw-lose).
The attacking players of Newry City AFC have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 180 minutes.
The manager Mullen was unhappy after their last game, played at their home ground. Newry suffered a 0-2 loss to Linfield (placed 6th).
A loss against Glentoran was the result prior to that, in a home game.The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Ballymena United in just four days.
Newry City AFC has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 9 goals from 6 games. The Newry City AFC manager Mullen has some worries about the defense as 13 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
Ballymena-Newry City AFC H2H statistics last three meetings regardless of arena: Ballymena United three wins, Newry City AFC zero wins, zero draws. three of these three matches had three or more goals (over 2,5). The games between these teams have had a tendency to be rough and physical, having seen 2 red cards from the last three encounters.
Top Goalscorers
  D. McDaid 3 goals |  D. Hughes 3 goals | C. Keeley 2 goals |
Ballymena United missing players
Newry City AFC missing players
| Ballymena United | Newry City AFC | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 12 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 4 | 9 |
| 12 | 7 | 2 | Scored | S | 3 | 9 | 12 |
| 20 | 10 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 13 | 23 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 91% | 83% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 83% |
| 64% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 83% | 58% |
| 27% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 50% | 33% |
| 9% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 17% | 8% |
| 45% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 42% |
| 18% | 17% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 36% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 3.6 | 3.7 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 4.3 | 4.2 |
| 7 | 8 | 7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 5.5 | 6.4 |
| 1.8 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.8 | 1.7 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5.4 | 5.5 | 4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13 | 7 | 6.1 |
| 2.5 | 2.5 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7 | 3.3 | 3 |
| 43% | 47% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 45% | 33% |
| 11.5 | 9.7 | 5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15 | 13.5 | 13.4 |
| 5.4 | 4 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 7.5 | 6.8 |
- All of Newry City AFC's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Ballymena United have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
- Ballymena United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Ballymena United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Newry City AFC have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Newry City AFC have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Newry City AFC 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 | Glentoran | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 28 |
| 2 | Crusaders | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 28 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 14 | 26 |
| 3 | Larne | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 26 |
| 4 | Cliftonville | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 22 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 25 |
| 5 | Coleraine | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 24 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 19 |
| 6 | Linfield | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 21 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 19 |
| 7 | Carrick Rangers | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 20 | 25 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 15 | -5 | 16 |
| 8 | Glenavon | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 26 | 24 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 15 |
| 9 | Ballymena United | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -8 | 11 |
| 10 | Newry City AFC | 12 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 12 | 23 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 13 | -11 | 9 |
| 11 | Dungannon Swifts | 12 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 30 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 18 | -24 | 4 |
| 12 | Portadown | 12 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 30 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 18 | -26 | 1 |
