The home team stadium regulars anticipate a win in this game, as the home advantage might do the trick versus a stumbling visitor. Ballymena United are in 7th place while the guesting Warrenpoint Town fret at 12th.
- Ballymena United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Warrenpoint Town have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Premiership
This could be an engaging game with lots of spark and excitement as both teams are well refreshed since they last played a game. Game on!
Ballymena United form and stats
6 victories, 1 draw and 3 defeats. That’s what Ballymena United have to build on here at The Showgrounds in the Premiership. Ballymena United has won so many consecutive home games (four in a row) that they struggle to remember the last time points were lost here at The Showgrounds. We remember; it was Carrick Rangers.
Ballymena faced defeat in their previous match, away at Linfield (0-1).
Ahead of that match, Ballymena United won a home game hosting Portadown (4-0).The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Ballymena United's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played two games, won one match, drawn zero and lost one.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Ballymena United as they are travelling to their away game against Carrick Rangers in the Premiership. That match is three days after this one.
A decent goal production from Ballymena United in their home games so far, with 16 goals from 10 league matches. It's worth mentioning that 8 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Ballymena United's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 11 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Warrenpoint Town form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Warrenpoint Town so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 1-2-6 (win-draw-lose).
Home advantage was not enough for Warrenpoint Town in their previous game, as they lost their Premiership-match, hosting Crusaders, 0-1.
A 1-2 loss hosting Dungannon Swifts before that.As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Warrenpoint Town playing away, we found one game. Results were zero away wins, one draw and zero home wins.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Larne in just three days.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Warrenpoint Town as they have only managed to score 6 times from 9 away games in the league. It's worth mentioning that 3 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. In the opposite end, Warrenpoint have conceded 16 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
The latest archived match featuring both these squads is the Warrenpoint Town - Ballymena United 1-2 played earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Ballymena United victories, two draws and three Warrenpoint Town wins. Over/under statistics; eight of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  P. McElroy 6 goals | K. Kane 4 goals | D. Parkhouse 3 goals |
Ballymena United missing players
Warrenpoint Town missing players
| Ballymena United | Warrenpoint Town | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 22 | 10 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 21 |
| 10 | 6 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 3 | 6 | 17 |
| 25 | 16 | 8 | Scored | S | 0 | 6 | 17 |
| 30 | 11 | 4 | Conceded | C | 8 | 16 | 49 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 64% | 70% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 78% | 81% |
| 50% | 50% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 56% | 71% |
| 18% | 20% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 11% | 24% |
| 9% | 10% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 19% |
| 36% | 40% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 44% | 52% |
| 27% | 30% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 36% | 30% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 56% | 48% |
| 4.5 | 4.6 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 3.3 | 3.7 |
| 6.4 | 5 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 8.7 | 8 | 6.1 |
| 1.7 | 1.8 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.6 | 2.5 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | 8.3 | 10.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 4.3 | 6.4 | 6 |
| 3 | 4.2 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 2.1 | 2.5 |
| 37% | 38% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 32% | 33% |
| 9.4 | 9.8 | 10.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14.7 | 12 | 10.4 |
| 4.4 | 4.9 | 5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 7.7 | 6 | 5.3 |
- Ballymena United have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Warrenpoint Town have scored away.
- Ballymena United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Warrenpoint Town have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Warrenpoint Town have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Warrenpoint Town have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Warrenpoint Town have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premiership
- Warrenpoint Town have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Premiership
- Warrenpoint Town have the fewest points (5) away in Premiership
- Warrenpoint Town have the fewest scored goals (6) away in Premiership
- Warrenpoint Town have the fewest scored goals in the second half (7) in Premiership
- Warrenpoint Town have the the worst goal difference (-32) in Premiership
- Warrenpoint Town 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 | Linfield | 22 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 41 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 18 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 23 | 7 | 30 | 49 |
| 2 | Glentoran | 22 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 44 | 23 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 24 | 16 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 7 | 21 | 46 |
| 3 | Cliftonville | 22 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 34 | 17 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 17 | 44 |
| 4 | Crusaders | 21 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 29 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 5 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 8 | 16 | 39 |
| 5 | Larne | 22 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 39 | 26 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 22 | 17 | 13 | 38 |
| 6 | Coleraine | 21 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 30 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 12 | 13 | 31 |
| 7 | Ballymena United | 22 | 10 | 1 | 11 | 25 | 30 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 19 | -5 | 31 |
| 8 | Glenavon | 21 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 26 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 12 | -1 | 26 |
| 9 | Carrick Rangers | 22 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 34 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 20 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 14 | -17 | 20 |
| 10 | Dungannon Swifts | 22 | 6 | 1 | 15 | 28 | 57 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 31 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 14 | 26 | -29 | 19 |
| 11 | Portadown | 22 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 20 | 46 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 18 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 28 | -26 | 13 |
| 12 | Warrenpoint Town | 21 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 17 | 49 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 33 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 16 | -32 | 8 |
