Glentoran are thought of as expected winners of this home game vs Ballymena United, if the league positions are thought to provide some clues. Or could we be in for a surprise?
- Glentoran have the fewest conceded goals (1) in Premiership
- Ballymena United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
This promises to be an engaging game with lots of fun and energy as both squads are well refreshed since they last ran out on the pitch. Get ready!
Glentoran form and stats
As mentioned below, Glentoran are feasting on a winning streak here so far with maximum points from their first 3 Premiership games.
Glentoran are confident in defense, having played 445 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.
Glentoran's previous game was also played at home, ending 1-0 versus Coleraine (placed 3rd). The home side are looking to build on that result.
A home win before that, as predicted. The team were solid favourites against Lisburn Distillery and won 1-0. 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 Glentoran home games with this odds we find 7 games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 5 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat. Looking at the victories, 5 matches were won by at least two goals.
The Glentoran manager McDermott has got the team scoring with 7 from 3 home games in the league. As for guarding their own goal, Glentoran have only let in 1 goal at home.
Ballymena United form and stats
Ballymena United are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Premiership, having played 3 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 2 losses).
The attacking players of Ballymena United have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 414 minutes.
Ballymena are travelling again after losing away to Crusaders in their previous match (0-3).
A loss against Carrick Rangers was the result prior to that, in a home game.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Ballymena United played away with similar odds. This revealed 12 games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 5 times, 0 were draws and the home team won as expected 7 times.
The visitors have scored 2 goals from 3 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game.
Head 2 Head
Glentoran have pulled off a sequence of 4 consecutive matches without defeat (2-2-0) when facing Ballymena United.Top Goalscorers
  C. McMenamin 3 goals | B. Burns 1 goals | P. McClean 1 goals |
Glentoran missing players
Ballymena United missing players
| Glentoran | Ballymena United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 11 | 7 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 3 | 6 | 15 |
| 83% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 67% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 86% |
| 50% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 71% |
| 17% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 29% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 17% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 29% |
| 83% | 67% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 14% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 67% | 57% |
| 7.2 | 8 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 1 | 1.3 | 2.7 |
| 4.3 | 4.3 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 4.7 | 5.7 |
| 1.5 | 1.7 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1 | 1.6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10.2 | 11.7 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| 4.5 | 6 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 2 | 2.4 |
| 41% | 39% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 33% | 29% |
| 7.5 | 6.3 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17 | 10.3 | 9.7 |
| 1.8 | 1 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 10 | 5.7 | 5 |
- All of Ballymena United's away-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 conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Ballymena United have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Ballymena United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Glentoran have created more than twice as many corners as Ballymena United.
- Glentoran have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Glentoran have scored more than double the goals of Ballymena United.
- Glentoran have the fewest conceded goals (1) in Premiership
- Glentoran have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (0) in Premiership
- Glentoran have the most clean sheets (5) in Premiership
- Glentoran have won all their matches at home so far.
- Glentoran is in the best form (5-1-0) in Premiership
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Glentoran | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 16 |
| 2 | Crusaders | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 16 |
| 3 | Coleraine | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 10 | 15 |
| 4 | Cliftonville | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 15 |
| 5 | Larne | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 14 |
| 6 | Carrick Rangers | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | -1 | 10 |
| 7 | Linfield | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 9 |
| 8 | Newry City AFC | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 8 | -4 | 6 |
| 9 | Glenavon | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | -4 | 5 |
| 10 | Ballymena United | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -10 | 4 |
| 11 | Dungannon Swifts | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 10 | -13 | 3 |
| 12 | Portadown | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | -14 | 0 |
