Struggling Glenavon will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Cliftonville in the upcoming league round. It’s 10th vs 2nd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
It's no vacation for neither Glenavon nor Cliftonville as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Cliftonville play their home games on artificial turf, while this game is played on grass. Recent stats for Cliftonville when playing on grass are 18 wins, 5 draws and 18 defeats from 41 matches. They have scored 61 goals and conceded 64 times in these games.
Glenavon form and stats
Glenavon have played 5 Premiership games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-2-1 (wins-draws-losses).
Glenavon's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-1 versus Cliftonville (placed 2nd). In the match before that, Glenavon hosted Crusaders and drew the game 2-2.
The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Glenavon have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found four matches with the results: Won 0 Drawn 2 Lost 2.
The Glenavon fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 8 goals in 5 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Glenavon defense is not exactly impregnable. 8 goals conceded from 5 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Cliftonville form and stats
Cliftonville's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Cliftonville, who have the fewest conceded goals (8) in Premiership, collect 16 points from their 7 away matches in the Premiership. 5 victories and 1 draw have created these points (and only 1 defeat). Cliftonville have been producing wins at home as well, producing a total of five victories in a row regardless of arena. It’s been three wins in a row for Cliftonville on their travels, an amazing performance which inspire hopes of making this one the fourth consecutive victory.
Cliftonville play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Glenavon (placed 10th). Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Linfield's place.
So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Cliftonville playing away and similar expectations, we found four relevant matches. Results were 1 Cliftonville win, 2 draws and 1 defeat.
With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Cliftonville are regular goalscorers on their travels. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (4 so far).
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the Cliftonville - Glenavon 3-1 earlier this season. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: 4 - 3 - 3 (Glenavon wins - draws - Cliftonville wins). As for goals, 6 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 4 had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Gormley 11 goals |   R. Marshall 4 goals |  A. Mitchell 4 goals |
Glenavon missing players
Cliftonville missing players
| Glenavon | Cliftonville | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 8 | 14 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 6 | 10 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 15 | 8 | 2 | Scored | S | 9 | 17 | 27 |
| 31 | 9 | 6 | Conceded | C | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 92% | 83% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 62% | 57% |
| 75% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 50% | 43% |
| 67% | 50% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 25% | 29% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 12% | 14% |
| 58% | 50% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 38% | 29% |
| 8% | 17% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 62% | 57% |
| 33% | 33% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 4.6 | 3.6 | 5 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 6 | 4.6 | 4.3 |
| 4.1 | 3.4 | 3 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 4.7 | 3.5 | 2.7 |
| 0.9 | 1 | 1.5 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.2 | 0.9 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- Cliftonville have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Cliftonville have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Cliftonville have scored at least twice as many goals away as Glenavon have scored home.
- Cliftonville have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Cliftonville haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Glenavon have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Glenavon have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Glenavon 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 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 31 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 6 | 22 | 29 |
| 2 | Cliftonville | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 26 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 4 | 18 | 28 |
| 3 | Crusaders | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 34 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 19 | 27 |
| 4 | Linfield | 11 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 30 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 21 | 24 |
| 5 | Glentoran | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 25 | 20 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 23 |
| 6 | Larne | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 26 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 16 |
| 7 | Ballymena United | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 2 | 16 |
| 8 | Dungannon Swifts | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 16 | 33 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 20 | -17 | 14 |
| 9 | Carrick Rangers | 12 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 8 | -8 | 12 |
| 10 | Glenavon | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 30 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 22 | -15 | 11 |
| 11 | Institute | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 29 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -20 | 6 |
| 12 | Warrenpoint Town | 13 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 8 | 46 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 29 | -38 | 3 |