Crusaders look to Seaview supporters for inspiration before Cliftonville match

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Competition: Northern Ireland Premiership
Competition: Mon 13.March
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Seaview (3383 seats)

Excitement is expected at Seaview when Crusaders challenge Cliftonville in what looks to be a superb match. Read on!

Insights:
  • Crusaders have the most points from losing position (13) in Premiership

Crusaders's stadium, Seaview, has a grass surface. Cliftonville have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Cliftonville when playing on grass; 22 wins, 10 draws and 11 losses from 43 matches. They have scored {68 goals} in these games and conceded 52.

This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Crusaders form and stats

Crusaders have been outstanding at home so far in the Premiership with 13 wins, 1 draw and only 1 loss. Ever since the Ballymena United game Crusaders has been unbeatable here at Seaview producing seven straight wins.

The Crusaders goalkeeper Jonny Tuffey is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 196 minutes without conceding a goal in the Premiership.

Crusaders's previous match was a Irish Cup game also played at their own stadium, finishing 1-0 vs Glentoran. The home team are looking to continue in that form.

Preceding that game was the away draw at Ballymena United that finished 0-0.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Crusaders handle that role? We have found 4 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat.

It should be noted that a look at the 16 latest league fixtures shows that 12 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the teams scored a goal).

Crusaders are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (40 goals in 15 games). Crusaders have only conceded 10 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Cliftonville form and stats

Playing away, Cliftonville have won 7 games, drawn 2 and suffered 6 defeats in the Premiership this season. The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Cliftonville have lost on their last two travels.

This fixture can not go any worse than the last one, a Irish Cup home loss versus Dungannon Swifts with 1-2 on the scoreboard.

Prior to that match, a home win 2-1 against Glentoran in the Premiership.

Cliftonville are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 0 wins, 2 draws and 4 defeats. From a total of 6 matches.

Goal hungry football fans should note that 9 of this club's 11 latest league matches have ended with three or more goals.

Cliftonville have scored 21 goals on their travels this season, from 15 away games in the league. In the opposite end, Cliftonville have conceded 25 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

Crusaders - Cliftonville 3-0 was the end result in these sides' previous H2H game, played this season. Statistics for the former ten meetings between these two squads are: two wins for Crusaders, seven draws and one win for Cliftonville. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.

Top Goalscorers

CrusadersP. Lowry
P. Lowry
15 goals
CliftonvilleR. Hale
R. Hale
11 goals
CliftonvilleR. Curran
R. Curran
11 goals

Crusaders missing players

Cliftonville missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Crusaders Cliftonville
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
30 15 3 Played P 4 15 30
17 13 2 Won W 0 7 19
6 1 1 Drew D 1 2 5
7 1 0 Lost L 3 6 6
58 40 5 Scored S 1 21 56
33 10 2 Conceded C 7 25 36
87% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 93% 93%
83% 93% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 73% 73%
63% 73% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 67% 67%
37% 40% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 40% 43%
20% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 20%
47% 47% 67% BTTS BTTS 25% 53% 50%
43% 47% 33% Clean Sheets C S 25% 27% 40%
23% 7% 0% Failed to Score F T 75% 27% 17%
 
5.1 5.7 4.3 Corners for (avg) C F 2 4.3 4.3
4.2 3.9 7 Corners against (avg) C A 4.2 4 3.6
2 1.5 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.8 1.5 1.5
2 1 0 Red cards R C 2 2 3
 
10.4 11.5 10 Shots (avg) S ( 7.2 9.7 10.2
5 6.1 5.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 4.3 5.4
38% 44% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 12% 32% 35%
 
5.8 5.3 7.3 Shots against (avg) S A 11.2 9.2 7.8
3 2.3 3.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.8 4.4 3.6
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • 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 the most points (40) at home in Premiership
  • Crusaders have the most points from losing position (13) in Premiership
  • Crusaders have the most scored goals (40) at home in Premiership
  • Crusaders have the the best goal difference (+30) 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 31 21 6 4 56 18 15 10 4 1 28 5 16 11 2 3 28 13 38 69
2 Linfield 31 19 5 7 58 25 15 10 3 2 27 11 16 9 2 5 31 14 33 62
3 Cliftonville 30 19 5 6 56 36 15 12 3 0 35 11 15 7 2 6 21 25 20 62
4 Crusaders 30 17 6 7 58 33 15 13 1 1 40 10 15 4 5 6 18 23 25 57
5 Coleraine 31 17 6 8 52 28 16 10 3 3 30 14 15 7 3 5 22 14 24 57
6 Glentoran 30 17 4 9 58 23 14 9 1 4 31 8 16 8 3 5 27 15 35 55
7 Carrick Rangers 31 11 4 16 41 58 16 7 2 7 25 28 15 4 2 9 16 30 -17 37
8 Glenavon 31 9 8 14 47 56 16 6 3 7 28 32 15 3 5 7 19 24 -9 35
9 Ballymena United 30 9 5 16 30 46 16 6 4 6 19 19 14 3 1 10 11 27 -16 32
10 Newry City AFC 31 7 2 22 30 57 16 4 1 11 18 27 15 3 1 11 12 30 -27 23
11 Dungannon Swifts 31 6 2 23 20 70 15 5 1 9 12 23 16 1 1 14 8 47 -50 20
12 Portadown 31 4 3 24 20 76 15 3 2 10 12 33 16 1 1 14 8 43 -56 15

Table
  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 31 21 6 4 56 18 15 10 4 1 28 5 16 11 2 3 28 13 38 69
2 Linfield 31 19 5 7 58 25 15 10 3 2 27 11 16 9 2 5 31 14 33 62
3 Cliftonville 30 19 5 6 56 36 15 12 3 0 35 11 15 7 2 6 21 25 20 62
4 Crusaders 30 17 6 7 58 33 15 13 1 1 40 10 15 4 5 6 18 23 25 57
5 Coleraine 31 17 6 8 52 28 16 10 3 3 30 14 15 7 3 5 22 14 24 57
6 Glentoran 30 17 4 9 58 23 14 9 1 4 31 8 16 8 3 5 27 15 35 55
7 Carrick Rangers 31 11 4 16 41 58 16 7 2 7 25 28 15 4 2 9 16 30 -17 37
8 Glenavon 31 9 8 14 47 56 16 6 3 7 28 32 15 3 5 7 19 24 -9 35
9 Ballymena United 30 9 5 16 30 46 16 6 4 6 19 19 14 3 1 10 11 27 -16 32
10 Newry City AFC 31 7 2 22 30 57 16 4 1 11 18 27 15 3 1 11 12 30 -27 23
11 Dungannon Swifts 31 6 2 23 20 70 15 5 1 9 12 23 16 1 1 14 8 47 -50 20
12 Portadown 31 4 3 24 20 76 15 3 2 10 12 33 16 1 1 14 8 43 -56 15

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