2nd position in the Premiership table for Cliftonville so far, a good performance. The home supporters hope for more joy as 7th-placed Ballymena United visits Solitude.
Cliftonville and Ballymena United should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artificial turf and that the visiting Ballymena United have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artificial turf is 3-2-3 (win-draw-loss) from eight matches.
Cliftonville form and stats
15 points is a decent return from 7 Premiership games here at Solitude for Cliftonville. The data says 5 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses. After failing to beat Linfield here at Solitude, Cliftonville has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with four wins in a row. The team is doing great wherever they are playing as Cliftonville has won six games in a row. The Ballymena United match was the last time out without a victory.
The Cliftonville supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Warrenpoint Town in Premiership and win 4-0. A strong away win before that one, visiting Glenavon and winning 2-1.
As mentioned above, Cliftonville "killed" Warrenpoint Town in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency.
Goals decide football matches and Cliftonville are scoring many of them at home; 14 on target from 7 league matches. From these home matches, Cliftonville have conceded only 4 goals.
Ballymena United form and stats
The visitors are W2-D2-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Premiership. It's looking increasingly bleak for Ballymena United who now has to deal with a four game losing streak. Crusaders was the last time a defeat was avoided. With two straight losses from their last two away games, Ballymena United are hoping that it's time for some travel points again.
The manager D. Jeffrey was unhappy after their last game, a Premiership match played at their home ground Solitude. Ballymena United suffered a 1-2 loss to Carrick Rangers (placed 8th). A loss against Larne was the result prior to that, in a home game.
Ballymena United are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 11 times in 7 away games so far. In the opposite end, Ballymena United have conceded 13 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
The most recent history between these sides is the Ballymena United - Cliftonville 2-1 played earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Cliftonville 4 wins, 1 draw and Ballymena United 5 victories. As for goals, 8 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 2 games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Gormley 13 goals |   C. Friel 6 goals |  R. Donnelly 5 goals |
Cliftonville missing players
Ballymena United missing players
| Cliftonville | Ballymena United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 7 | 14 |
| 11 | 5 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 32 | 14 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 11 | 21 |
| 9 | 4 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 13 | 23 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 67% | 57% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 86% | 93% |
| 53% | 43% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 71% | 71% |
| 33% | 43% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 57% | 36% |
| 13% | 14% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | 7% |
| 33% | 14% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 86% | 79% |
| 53% | 57% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 14% | 14% |
| 13% | 29% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 4.9 | 4.5 | 10 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 2 | 4 | 2.7 |
| 2.8 | 1.3 | 3 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 5 | 4.4 | 4.5 |
| 1 | 0.3 | 1 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.6 | 1.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
- Ballymena United have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Ballymena United have won significantly more corners away than at home.
- Ballymena United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Cliftonville have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Cliftonville have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Cliftonville 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 | Coleraine | 15 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 37 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 18 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 6 | 28 | 35 |
| 2 | Cliftonville | 15 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 32 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 23 | 34 |
| 3 | Crusaders | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 35 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 19 | 28 |
| 4 | Linfield | 12 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 32 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 23 | 27 |
| 5 | Glentoran | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 30 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 9 | 27 |
| 6 | Larne | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 29 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 14 | 19 |
| 7 | Ballymena United | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 21 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 13 | -2 | 16 |
| 8 | Carrick Rangers | 14 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 13 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 11 | -9 | 15 |
| 9 | Dungannon Swifts | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 35 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 20 | -19 | 14 |
| 10 | Glenavon | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 36 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 26 | -20 | 11 |
| 11 | Institute | 14 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 31 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 11 | -20 | 8 |
| 12 | Warrenpoint Town | 15 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 8 | 54 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 21 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 33 | -46 | 3 |