A highly important fixture in Premiership as both contenders are fighting for the top league positions. With Coleraine in 3rd position and Larne at 2nd, this has all the looks of a thriling meeting. Read on to learn more!
- Coleraine have the most clean sheets (9) in Premiership
- Larne have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
This could be an absorbing fixture with lots of action and excitement as both sides are well renewed since they last saw competitive action. Let's go!
Coleraine form and stats
4-1-0 (win-draw-lost) are the Premiership numbers at home for Coleraine, who have the most clean sheets (9) in Premiership, so far this season. Coleraine haven’t lost a league-game in eleven attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Cliftonville, 80 days ago.
Nothing to worry about in defence for Coleraine, as their goalkeeper Gareth Deane has completely shut out the opponents for 384 minutes in the Premiership.
Coleraine's previous game was a Premiership match also played at home, ending 2-0 versus Dungannon Swifts (placed 11th). The home side are looking to build on that result.
Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against Glentoran.This is expected to be a close game, with Coleraine perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Coleraine as a small favourite), we find eleven games. Coleraine has won six of these, drawn three and lost two.
Coleraine have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at The Showgrounds with 9 goals in 5 league matches. Coleraine have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 0 goals.
Larne form and stats
Larne have an excellent away record in the Premiership so far with 4-0-2 from 6 games.
The supporters enjoyed Larne's previous game versus Glenavon (placed 9th), a Premiership 3-2 win played at home.
That result followed a home victory 1-0 versus Crusaders.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found twelve similar matches played by Larne in our archives, and the results are: five wins for Larne, three draws and four defeats.
The Larne manager T. Lynch has got the team scoring on the road, with 12 away goals in 6 league matches. Larne have conceded 7 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
The former head-to-head meeting ended Larne - Coleraine 4-2, played this season. Head to head numbers (for the preceeding ten meetings): Coleraine won six games, two matches ended with a tie and Larne have two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: six / fourTop Goalscorers
  M. Shevlin 9 goals |  L. Lynch 6 goals |  M. Randall 4 goals |
Coleraine missing players
Larne missing players
| Coleraine | Larne | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 5 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 25 | 9 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 12 | 25 |
| 9 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 7 | 13 |
| 85% | 80% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 85% | 80% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 69% |
| 46% | 20% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 54% |
| 23% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 31% |
| 15% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 33% | 31% |
| 31% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 54% |
| 69% | 100% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 38% |
| 15% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 15% |
| 4.8 | 6 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 6 | 6.5 |
| 4.8 | 3.4 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 3.8 | 3.5 |
| 1.7 | 0.8 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 2.3 | 2.1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10.3 | 11.2 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 2 | 11.2 | 11.8 |
| 5.2 | 4.8 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 6.8 | 6.2 |
| 37% | 38% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 29% | 30% |
| 7.8 | 5.8 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 4 | 7 | 6.2 |
| 3 | 1.4 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 2.8 | 2.2 |
- Coleraine have not yet conceded a single goal in all their home games.
- Coleraine have not yet lost a game at home.
- Coleraine have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Coleraine have the fewest conceded goals (0) at home in Premiership
- Coleraine have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in Premiership
- Coleraine have the most clean sheets (5) at home in Premiership
- Coleraine have the most clean sheets (9) in Premiership
- Coleraine have the most scored goals in the second half (16) in Premiership
- Coleraine have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Larne have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- 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 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 26 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 16 | 32 |
| 2 | Larne | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 27 |
| 3 | Coleraine | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 25 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 16 | 25 |
| 4 | Glentoran | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 24 |
| 5 | Linfield | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 22 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 15 | 23 |
| 6 | Crusaders | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 19 |
| 7 | Carrick Rangers | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -5 | 15 |
| 8 | Ballymena United | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 23 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 15 | -12 | 13 |
| 9 | Glenavon | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 8 | -2 | 10 |
| 10 | Portadown | 13 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 29 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 15 | -16 | 7 |
| 11 | Dungannon Swifts | 11 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 16 | 32 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 17 | -16 | 6 |
| 12 | Warrenpoint Town | 12 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 10 | 33 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 24 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 9 | -23 | 3 |