Crusaders - Ballymena United. 4th spot versus 10th spot. Everything can happen - get a comprehensive match preview here!
- Crusaders have the most points from losing position (12) in Premiership
- Crusaders have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Ballymena United have scored away.
Crusaders and Ballymena United 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.
Crusaders form and stats
Crusaders have been outstanding at home so far in the Premiership with 6 wins, 1 draw and only 0 losses. After failing to beat Larne here at Seaview, Crusaders has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with four wins in a row.
Happy days for Crusaders in their previous game, a fixture away at Coleraine (placed 6th) that ended with a 2-1 victory. The home team have an in-form goalscorer in Lowry, having bagged a goal in three matches in a row.
Heartbreak before that as Crusaders lost 1-4 at Larne's place.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 Crusaders home games with this odds we find 10 games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 6 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats. Looking at the victories, 4 matches were won by at least two goals.
Goal party? Nobody knows the future, but we do know that 11 of the 14 most recent league games with this team has had three goals or more.
Crusaders are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Seaview in their league games, having scored an impressive 20 goals in 7 matches. Crusaders are not conceding a lot of goals here at Seaview in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 6 from 7 matches.
Ballymena United form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Ballymena United so far with only 4 points returning home. The records show 1-1-4 (win-draw-lose). With two straight losses from their last two away games, Ballymena United are hoping that it's time for some travel points again.
Two away games in a row for Ballymena, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 2-3 versus Newry City AFC. Ballymena United were so close to getting something from the game against Newry City AFC, but ended up with egg all over their face after conceding the deciding goal two minutes into overtime.
A home win before that, celebrating 3-0 vs Newry City AFC.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Ballymena played away with similar odds. This revealed 11 games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 4 times, 0 were draws and the home team won as expected 7 times.
After this away game Ballymena United return home for a Premiership game against Linfield. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Ballymena United find the net regularly in their away games. 7 goals from 6 away fixtures in the league. Ballymena United have conceded 13 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
The latest head-to-head match ended Crusaders - Ballymena United 3-0, played this season. Stats for the preceeding ten meetings involving these two squads are: seven wins for Crusaders, zero draws and three wins for Ballymena United. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.
Top Goalscorers
  P. Lowry 10 goals | A. Lecky 4 goals |  D. McDaid 4 goals |
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| Crusaders | Ballymena United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 7 | 3 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 9 | 6 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 31 | 20 | 11 | Scored | S | 0 | 7 | 17 |
| 19 | 6 | 2 | Conceded | C | 3 | 13 | 23 |
| 93% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 93% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 79% | 86% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 69% |
| 43% | 43% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 31% |
| 29% | 29% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 33% | 15% |
| 71% | 71% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 46% |
| 29% | 29% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 17% | 23% |
| 7% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 33% | 31% |
| 5.4 | 6.4 | 7.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 3.8 | 3.8 |
| 4.2 | 3.9 | 2.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 5.3 | 6.6 |
| 1.7 | 1.3 | 0.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.5 | 1.7 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 11.4 | 11.4 | 10.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 3 | 5.8 | 5.8 |
| 5.1 | 6 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 3 | 2.8 |
| 43% | 48% | 73% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 39% | 46% |
| 6.3 | 5 | 3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10 | 12.8 | 10.8 |
| 3.4 | 2.6 | 1.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 6.8 | 5.1 |
- All of Ballymena United's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Crusaders's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Ballymena United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Crusaders have not yet lost a game at home.
- Crusaders have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Crusaders have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Crusaders have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Ballymena United have scored away.
- Crusaders have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Crusaders have the most points (19) at home in Premiership
- Crusaders have the most points from losing position (12) in Premiership
- Crusaders have the most scored goals (20) at home in Premiership
- Crusaders haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Larne | 14 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 33 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 24 | 35 |
| 2 | Glentoran | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 24 | 32 |
| 3 | Cliftonville | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 26 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 30 |
| 4 | Crusaders | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 31 | 19 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 29 |
| 5 | Linfield | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 26 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 11 | 26 |
| 6 | Coleraine | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 26 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 7 | 9 | 23 |
| 7 | Glenavon | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 31 | 29 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 14 | 2 | 19 |
| 8 | Carrick Rangers | 15 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 23 | 30 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 19 | -7 | 19 |
| 9 | Newry City AFC | 15 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 19 | 29 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 16 | -10 | 15 |
| 10 | Ballymena United | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 17 | 23 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -6 | 14 |
| 11 | Dungannon Swifts | 15 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 39 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 25 | -32 | 4 |
| 12 | Portadown | 15 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 40 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 20 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 20 | -36 | 1 |
