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Competition: Northern Ireland Premiership
Date: Sat 21.September
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Mourneview Park (4160 seats)

Struggling Glenavon will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Ballymena United in the upcoming league round. It’s 10th vs 4th and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

The visiting Ballymena United played their last game only three days ago, a Challenge Cup match.

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Glenavon form and stats

The story so far in the Premiership for Glenavon at their home stadium (Mourneview Park) is 1 win, 1 draw and 1 defeat. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Glenavon to get some points in this home game.

The fans are hoping that Glenavon will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 2-3 away loss in the Premiership game against Crusaders (placed 1st). In the game before, an away victory in the Challenge Cup match versus Formartine United with a 3-0 scoreline.

Glenavon are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 3 goals in 3 attempts. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Glenavon defense is not exactly impregnable. 5 goals conceded from 3 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Ballymena United form and stats

Ballymena United are happy with their away performances in the Premiership so far, having secured two victories and one draw from their first three travels. Ballymena United has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.

Ballymena United failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Rangers U21 that ended with defeat 0-1. Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Coleraine in the Premiership.

With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Ballymena United are regular goalscorers on their travels. As opposed to that, Ballymena United have seen the ball go into their own net 4 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Glenavon won 4 games, 1 match ended with a draw and Ballymena United has 5 wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: 8 / 2

Top Goalscorers

A. McGrory
4 goals
C. Friel
4 goals
A. Mitchell
3 goals

Glenavon missing players

Ballymena United missing players

Glenavon Ballymena United
Total Home Home vs top Statistics Stat Away vs low Away Total
6 3 1 Played P 1 3 6
1 1 0 Won W 1 2 3
1 1 0 Drew D 0 1 2
4 1 1 Lost L 0 0 1
7 3 0 Scored S 1 7 13
13 5 4 Conceded C 0 4 7
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
100% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 67% 83%
67% 33% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 67% 67%
50% 33% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 67% 50%
17% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 33% 17%
67% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 67% 67%
17% 33% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 33% 33%
17% 33% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
4.2 4.5 7 Corners For (avg) C F 4 3.3 2.6
4.8 5 3 Corners Against (avg) C A 8 5.3 5.6
1.8 2.5 3 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 1 2.3 1.8
1 1 0 Red Cards R C 1 1 2
Key stats This season:
  • All of Glenavon's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Ballymena United have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Ballymena United have not yet lost a game away.
  • Ballymena United have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Ballymena United have won significantly more corners away than at home.
  • Ballymena United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Glenavon haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

Glenavon
All Irish League Cup Premiership Europa League Club Friendlies Challenge Cup
All Home Away
24-08-19 PR Dungannon Swifts 2 - 1 Glenavon
27-08-19 ILC Glenavon 4 - 1 Portstewart
30-08-19 PR Glenavon 0 - 4 Coleraine
07-09-19 CC Formartine United 0 - 3 Glenavon
14-09-19 PR Crusaders 3 - 2 Glenavon
21-09-19 PR Glenavon 14:00 Ballymena United
28-09-19 PR Linfield 14:00 Glenavon
04-10-19 PR Larne 18:45 Glenavon
08-10-19 ILC Glenavon 18:45 Newry City AFC
12-10-19 PR Glenavon 14:00 Institute
Ballymena United
All Irish League Cup Premiership Europa League Club Friendlies Challenge Cup
All Home Away
27-08-19 ILC Ballymena United 3 - 0 Newington Youth
30-08-19 PR Carrick Rangers 0 - 1 Ballymena United
07-09-19 PR Ballymena United 4 - 0 Warrenpoint Town
14-09-19 PR Ballymena United 1 - 1 Coleraine
18-09-19 CC Ballymena United 0 - 1 Rangers U21
21-09-19 PR Glenavon 14:00 Ballymena United
28-09-19 PR Ballymena United 14:00 Cliftonville
05-10-19 PR Institute 14:00 Ballymena United
08-10-19 ILC Ballymena United 18:45 Dollingstown
12-10-19 PR Ballymena United 14:00 Crusaders

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Crusaders 7 6 1 0 23 4 5 4 1 0 15 4 2 2 0 0 8 0 19 19
2 Coleraine 7 3 4 0 17 6 3 1 2 0 6 1 4 2 2 0 11 5 11 13
3 Cliftonville 7 4 1 2 14 6 3 1 0 2 3 4 4 3 1 0 11 2 8 13
4 Ballymena United 6 3 2 1 13 7 3 1 1 1 6 3 3 2 1 0 7 4 6 11
5 Glentoran 7 3 2 2 12 9 3 2 1 0 8 3 4 1 1 2 4 6 3 11
6 Larne 6 3 1 2 17 10 2 1 0 1 8 4 4 2 1 1 9 6 7 10
7 Dungannon Swifts 7 3 1 3 10 18 4 2 1 1 7 8 3 1 0 2 3 10 -8 10
8 Linfield 4 3 0 1 7 5 3 2 0 1 6 5 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 9
9 Carrick Rangers 6 2 0 4 6 7 3 0 0 3 1 4 3 2 0 1 5 3 -1 6
10 Glenavon 6 1 1 4 7 13 3 1 1 1 3 5 3 0 0 3 4 8 -6 4
11 Institute 7 0 1 6 4 22 4 0 0 4 3 15 3 0 1 2 1 7 -18 1
12 Warrenpoint Town 6 0 0 6 1 24 2 0 0 2 1 8 4 0 0 4 0 16 -23 0

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