Premiership: Cliftonville receive Ballymena United in what promises to be an action-packed football fixture. Here's a thorough preview!
- Cliftonville have not yet lost a game at home.
- Cliftonville have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Ballymena United have scored away.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Cliftonville and Ballymena United.
Cliftonville form and stats
Cliftonville have been outstanding at home so far in the Premiership with 9 wins, 3 draws and only 0 losses.
Cliftonville are returning here after visiting Glenavon and winning with a 3-1 scoreline. Hale has beaten the opponent goalkeeper in three matches in a row. Ace!
Before that, Cliftonville drew at home versus Coleraine.The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Cliftonville home games with this odds we find 7 games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 7 wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats. Looking at the victories, 4 matches were won by at least two goals.
Cliftonville can score goals in their home matches. After 12 league matches they have found the net 26 times. Cliftonville are not conceding a lot of goals here at Solitude in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 10 from 12 matches.
Ballymena United form and stats
Ballymena United have only collected 10 points from their away games in the Premiership, after 3-1-7 (11 played). Three might be a magic number, but there's been little wizardry in Ballymena United's last three away games as they have all been lost.
Ballymena United have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 180 minutes ago. McDaid was the goal scorer.
There were no winners in Ballymena's previous match, the home game that ended 0-0 vs Newry City AFC (placed 10th).
A 0-3 defeat away at Linfield before that.You'll want to know how Ballymena United managed when outsiders such as today. Our database found 10 similar matches resulting in 3 away wins, 0 draws and 7 home wins.
Few goals the story here? 8 of this team's last 10 league fixtures have contained two or less goals.
The attacking power of Ballymena United when travelling is not overwhelming with 10 goals scored from 11 league matches away. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. In the opposite end, Ballymena have conceded 19 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
Thinking about a bet on both teams to score (or not)? Oddly enough, the last time both teams scored in one of the away team's league games was the last time they met today's opposition Cliftonville! Ballymena United - Cliftonville 4-1, seven matches ago. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - two - four (Cliftonville wins - draws - Ballymena United wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  R. Hale 11 goals | R. Curran 11 goals | J. Gormley 7 goals |
Cliftonville missing players
Ballymena United missing players
| Cliftonville | Ballymena United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 25 | 12 | 3 | Played | P | 4 | 11 | 23 |
| 16 | 9 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 5 | 3 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 3 | 7 | 11 |
| 46 | 26 | 5 | Scored | S | 1 | 10 | 28 |
| 32 | 10 | 4 | Conceded | C | 9 | 19 | 32 |
| 92% | 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 96% |
| 72% | 67% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 82% | 83% |
| 64% | 58% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 45% | 48% |
| 48% | 50% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 18% | 22% |
| 24% | 25% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 18% | 13% |
| 52% | 50% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 27% | 30% |
| 40% | 50% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 27% | 35% |
| 16% | 8% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 75% | 45% | 39% |
| 4.7 | 4.7 | 3.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 1.5 | 3.8 | 4.1 |
| 3.7 | 3.2 | 5.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 5.3 | 6.7 |
| 1.5 | 1.6 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.5 | 1.1 | 1.4 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 10.7 | 11.2 | 9.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 4.5 | 6 | 6 |
| 5.5 | 6.3 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.2 | 2.9 | 3 |
| 33% | 34% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 34% | 41% |
| 8.2 | 6.8 | 8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12 | 11.9 | 10.3 |
| 3.8 | 3.2 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.8 | 5.9 | 4.8 |
- Ballymena United haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Cliftonville have not yet lost a game at home.
- Cliftonville have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Cliftonville have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Ballymena United have scored away.
| 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 | 25 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 46 | 32 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 26 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 22 | 14 | 53 |
| 2 | Larne | 24 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 42 | 15 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 23 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 11 | 27 | 52 |
| 3 | Linfield | 25 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 47 | 21 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 22 | 11 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 25 | 10 | 26 | 49 |
| 4 | Crusaders | 25 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 51 | 29 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 49 |
| 5 | Coleraine | 25 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 43 | 21 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 24 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 10 | 22 | 47 |
| 6 | Glentoran | 22 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 42 | 15 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 26 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 9 | 27 | 41 |
| 7 | Ballymena United | 23 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 28 | 32 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 19 | -4 | 30 |
| 8 | Glenavon | 23 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 40 | 45 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 26 | 28 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 17 | -5 | 26 |
| 9 | Carrick Rangers | 23 | 7 | 3 | 13 | 30 | 46 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 20 | 19 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 27 | -16 | 24 |
| 10 | Newry City AFC | 24 | 6 | 1 | 17 | 25 | 47 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 15 | 18 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 29 | -22 | 19 |
| 11 | Dungannon Swifts | 25 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 17 | 57 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 41 | -40 | 17 |
| 12 | Portadown | 24 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 8 | 59 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 22 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 37 | -51 | 5 |
