The league table in Premiership tells a story about these teams so far, with Cliftonville leading Warrenpoint Town by 28 points. Match preview to follow:
Cliftonville and Warrenpoint Town 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 Warrenpoint Town 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 1-0-3 (win-draw-loss) from four matches.
Cliftonville form and stats
Cliftonville have performed here at Solitude this season with 4 wins from 6 Premiership matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 0 games and lost 2. The team is doing great wherever they are playing as Cliftonville has won five games in a row. The Ballymena United match was the last time out without a victory. Cliftonville are on a three game winning streak in their home games.
Cliftonville are returning here after visiting Glenavon in a Premiership game and winning with a 2-1 scoreline. Heartbreak before that as Cliftonville lost 0-1 at Linfield's place.
Cliftonville have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Solitude with 10 goals in 6 league matches. Cliftonville have only conceded 4 from their league home games. 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, who have the fewest scored goals (8) in Premiership, so far with only 0 points returning home. The records show 0-0-8 (win-draw-lose). Warrenpoint Town have been very modest guests so far, leaving with zero points in all their 8 away matches played so far in the Premiership. A depressing eight defeats in a row for Warrenpoint Town in their away games. Unhappy days, as the last time they avoided a loss on the road was versus Larne. It's looking increasingly bleak for Warrenpoint Town who now has to deal with a five game losing streak. Dungannon Swifts was the last time a defeat was avoided.
Warrenpoint Town failed to get anything from their last game, a Premiership home match vs Glentoran (placed 5th) that ended with defeat 0-4. Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Carrick Rangers's place.
Warrenpoint Town lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-4 beating and focus on this one. Warrenpoint Town did not look prepared in the first half against Glentoran and lost the game during the first 45 minutes. They need to evaluate their pre-match routine before this one.
There's been a serious shortage of goals from Warrenpoint Town's away games in the league this season with only 1 goal from 8 matches. The Warrenpoint Town defense is as useful as an ashtray on a motorcycle, having conceded 29 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Warrenpoint Town - Cliftonville 1-5 entered in the official records. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 7 Cliftonville victories, 2 draws and 1 Warrenpoint Town win. 7 of these games ended with three goals or more, 3 matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
![]() J. Gormley 12 goals | ![]() R. Donnelly 5 goals | ![]() C. McMenamin 4 goals |
Cliftonville missing players
Warrenpoint Town missing players
| Cliftonville | Warrenpoint Town | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 8 | 14 |
| 10 | 4 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 3 | 8 | 13 |
| 28 | 10 | 4 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Conceded | C | 14 | 29 | 50 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 64% | 50% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 88% | 93% |
| 50% | 33% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 75% | 86% |
| 29% | 33% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 50% | 64% |
| 14% | 17% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 25% | 29% |
| 36% | 17% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 12% | 36% |
| 50% | 50% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 14% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 88% | 64% |
| 4.7 | 3.8 | 3 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.4 |
| 2.9 | 1.4 | 0.5 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 13.5 | 10.2 | 7.6 |
| 1.1 | 0.4 | 0 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.2 | 1.6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
- Cliftonville have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Cliftonville have scored more than double the goals of Warrenpoint Town.
- Cliftonville have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Cliftonville have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Cliftonville 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 lost all their away matches so far.
- 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 | Coleraine | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 33 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 6 | 24 | 32 |
| 2 | Cliftonville | 14 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 28 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 19 | 31 |
| 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 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 29 | 20 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 26 |
| 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 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 13 | -1 | 16 |
| 8 | Dungannon Swifts | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 35 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 20 | -19 | 14 |
| 9 | Carrick Rangers | 13 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 11 | 21 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 10 | -10 | 12 |
| 10 | Glenavon | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 16 | 32 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 22 | -16 | 11 |
| 11 | Institute | 13 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 30 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 11 | -20 | 7 |
| 12 | Warrenpoint Town | 14 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 8 | 50 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 21 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 29 | -42 | 3 |