Delightful dogfight as daring Cliftonville duels with determined Glenavon

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Competition: Northern Ireland Premiership
Competition: Sat 13.March
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Solitude (6224 seats)

There's been ups and downs for these two teams so far this season, occupying positions near the middle of the Premiership table so far. Here's the Cliftonville - Glenavon latest:

Insights:
  • Cliftonville have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Glenavon haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Premiership. That game, against Portadown, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Glenavon.

1 - 2 - 3 with 9-11. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Glenavon when playing on artifical turf like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Glenavon play their home games on grass so that's why we provide these numbers.

Glenavon is no longer fighting for a cause; they can neither go up or down this season.

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Cliftonville form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Solitude as Cliftonville have scored 25 goals to get 26 points from 12 games. The overall stats in the Premiership are 8-2-2 (wins-draws-losses). Cliftonville are on a three game winning streak in their home games.

No payout for Cliftonville in their previous match, an away game at Linfield that ended in defeat 0-2. Before that, Cliftonville played out a draw 1-1 when visiting Ballymena United.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Cliftonville handle that role? We have found five games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are four wins, one draw and zero defeats.

Cliftonville can score goals in their home matches. After 12 league matches they have found the net 25 times. On the other hand, Cliftonville have conceded 13 goals. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Glenavon form and stats

As the visiting team in Premiership matches, Glenavon have produced an overall stat of 6-2-3 so far.

Two travels in a row for Glenavon, whose manager G. Hamilton could celebrate last time after the Premiership win against Portadown. A 1-4 defeat away at Portadown before that.

We have checked recent matches where Glenavon have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those four games were one victory, one draw and two defeats.

A quick return to home after this game, as Glenavon are hosting Glentoran in the Premiership only three days away.

Glenavon has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 17 goals from 11 games. 16 goals have been conceded by Glenavon in these games.

Head 2 Head

This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Cliftonville - Glenavon 1-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Cliftonville five wins, three draws and Glenavon two victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

CliftonvilleR. Curran
R. Curran
6 goals
GlenavonC. McCloskey
C. McCloskey
6 goals
GlenavonM. O'Connor
M. O'Connor
6 goals

Cliftonville missing players

Glenavon missing players

Cliftonville Glenavon
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
24 12 3 Played P 2 11 21
10 8 2 Won W 1 6 8
6 2 0 Drew D 1 2 7
8 2 1 Lost L 0 3 6
34 25 3 Scored S 3 17 33
28 13 5 Conceded C 1 16 35
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
75% 83% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 91% 90%
46% 67% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 55% 57%
21% 33% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 18% 29%
8% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 18% 24%
42% 33% 33% BTTS BTTS 50% 73% 81%
29% 50% 33% Clean Sheets C S 50% 18% 14%
29% 17% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 9% 10%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.5 1.5 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4 3.2 2.4
2 1 0 Red cards R C 2 7 8
 
7.2 8.6 6 Shots (avg) S ( 8.5 8.2 9
3.4 4.6 2.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 3.8 4.4
41% 45% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 30% 40% 36%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Cliftonville have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Cliftonville haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Glenavon haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 Linfield 23 15 3 5 54 25 13 10 2 1 36 7 10 5 1 4 18 18 29 48
2 Coleraine 22 13 4 5 35 22 12 7 2 3 18 12 10 6 2 2 17 10 13 43
3 Crusaders 23 12 3 8 43 28 13 8 1 4 24 13 10 4 2 4 19 15 15 39
4 Larne 22 10 7 5 35 23 13 7 3 3 21 13 9 3 4 2 14 10 12 37
5 Glentoran 21 10 6 5 36 18 10 6 3 1 20 6 11 4 3 4 16 12 18 36
6 Cliftonville 24 10 6 8 34 28 12 8 2 2 25 13 12 2 4 6 9 15 6 36
7 Ballymena United 22 9 4 9 30 24 10 2 3 5 10 14 12 7 1 4 20 10 6 31
8 Glenavon 21 8 7 6 33 35 10 2 5 3 16 19 11 6 2 3 17 16 -2 31
9 Warrenpoint Town 21 6 5 10 22 37 7 2 3 2 10 8 14 4 2 8 12 29 -15 23
10 Portadown 21 3 6 12 24 45 10 1 3 6 11 18 11 2 3 6 13 27 -21 15
11 Carrick Rangers 21 3 4 14 19 48 11 1 2 8 11 24 10 2 2 6 8 24 -29 13
12 Dungannon Swifts 21 3 3 15 14 46 10 2 0 8 9 21 11 1 3 7 5 25 -32 12