The Cliftonville & Larne managers P. McLaughlin and T. Lynch are both worrying about and looking forward to this key fixture in the higher part of the Premiership league table.
- Cliftonville have the most points from losing position (8) in Premiership
- Larne have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
Both teams have had adequate rest since their last game. Let's hope for an in-your-face fixture!
1 - 0 - 2 with 2-3. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Larne when playing on artifical turf like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Larne play their home games on grass so that's why we provide these numbers.
Cliftonville form and stats
The overall Premiership stats at home this season for Cliftonville are 4-0-0 (wins-draws-losses). Ever since the Carrick Rangers game Cliftonville has been unbeatable here at Solitude producing four straight wins.
Cliftonville drew their last game, 1-1 away at Linfield (placed 3rd).
Ahead of that match, Cliftonville won a home game hosting Warrenpoint Town (1-0).Cliftonville have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Solitude with 6 goals in 4 league matches. Cliftonville have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 2 goals.
Larne form and stats
The visitors are W3-D0-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Premiership. Winning streaks in away matches are not that common, but Larne are close to a proper streak after winning their two previous away games.
Two travels in a row for Larne, whose manager T. Lynch could celebrate last time after the Premiership win against Dungannon Swifts. As you can tell from the result, the match against Dungannon Swifts was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today?
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Glenavon at their stadium, the result 1-0.With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Larne are regular goalscorers on their travels. 5 goals have been conceded by Larne in these games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Cliftonville four wins, three draws and Larne three victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  L. Lynch 5 goals |  J. Gormley 4 goals | J. Harney 2 goals |
Cliftonville missing players
Larne missing players
| Cliftonville | Larne | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 5 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | 6 | 2 | Scored | S | 0 | 8 | 15 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 5 | 7 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 86% |
| 71% | 50% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 50% | 57% |
| 43% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 57% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 50% | 43% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 50% | 43% |
| 71% | 50% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 43% |
| 29% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 43% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 29% |
| 5.4 | 6 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 7.8 | 8 |
| 3.4 | 2 | 1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 2.8 | 2.4 |
| 1 | 1.2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.8 | 2.3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10.6 | 11.2 | 14 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 12.5 | 13.9 |
| 4.7 | 6 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 6.2 | 7 |
| 33% | 25% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 32% | 31% |
- Cliftonville have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Cliftonville have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Cliftonville have scored in all their matches so far.
- Cliftonville have the most points (12) at home in Premiership
- Cliftonville have the most points from losing position (8) in Premiership
- Cliftonville have won all their matches at home so far.
- Cliftonville have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Cliftonville haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Larne have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Larne have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Larne 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 | Cliftonville | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 17 |
| 2 | Larne | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 16 |
| 3 | Linfield | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 15 |
| 4 | Coleraine | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 10 | 14 |
| 5 | Crusaders | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 13 |
| 6 | Carrick Rangers | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 13 |
| 7 | Glentoran | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 12 |
| 8 | Glenavon | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 3 | -1 | 7 |
| 9 | Ballymena United | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 11 | -8 | 4 |
| 10 | Portadown | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -9 | 4 |
| 11 | Dungannon Swifts | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | -8 | 3 |
| 12 | Warrenpoint Town | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | -13 | 3 |