Larne vs Cliftonville: Match guide and preview

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Competition: Northern Ireland Premiership
Competition: Sat 05.June
Match begins: 16:30 (UTC)
Venue: Inver Park (1100 seats)

Both teams are in good shape, Cliftonville enjoying a 1 point advantage on Larne in the tables. Let's go!

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Cliftonville have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 16-10-19 (win-draw-loss) from 45 matches.

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Larne form and stats

Larne have played 17 Premiership games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 9-5-3 (wins-draws-losses).

Larne's previous game was a Premiership match also played at home, ending 2-1 versus Glenavon. The home side are looking to build on that result. A late climax in the match against Glenavon as the winning goal came three minutes into overtime; scored by M. Donnelly.

Before that game, the home loss against Coleraine with the scoreline 1-2.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Larne handle that role? We have found three games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are zero wins, one draw and two defeats.

Larne have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Inver Park with 30 goals in 17 league matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 3 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Larne have only conceded 14 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Cliftonville form and stats

4 wins, 6 draws and 6 losses. That’s the product of Cliftonville playing as the away team in the Premiership this season.

Cliftonville aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 267 league minutes without a goal. D. O'Connor was the last player to find the net.

Cliftonville's last game was the home draw against Crusaders (0-0).

Preceding that, the 0-2 home loss versus Linfield.

Cliftonville are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is two wins, three draws and nine defeats. From a total of 14 matches.

Cliftonville have scored 18 goals on their travels this season, from 16 away games in the league. 18 goals have been conceded by Cliftonville in these games.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: Cliftonville - Larne 1-2. Larne-Cliftonville H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Larne two wins, Cliftonville four wins, four draws. three of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

CliftonvilleM. McCrudden
M. McCrudden
14 goals
LarneD. McDaid
D. McDaid
13 goals
LarneR. Hale
R. Hale
11 goals

Larne missing players

Cliftonville missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Larne Cliftonville
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
39 20 6 Played P 4 18 39
19 10 1 Won W 0 5 17
10 5 2 Drew D 3 6 10
10 5 3 Lost L 1 7 12
66 33 7 Scored S 4 20 59
42 18 8 Conceded C 5 20 42
95% 95% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 94% 95%
85% 80% 83% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 72% 79%
62% 60% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 33% 49%
23% 15% 17% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 17% 21%
10% 5% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 6% 10%
62% 50% 83% BTTS BTTS 75% 44% 41%
26% 35% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 22% 33%
18% 20% 17% Failed to Score F T 25% 39% 31%
 
5.2 5.3 5.3 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.9 5.4
4.2 3.7 4.5 Corners against (avg) C A 8.8 5.2 4.8
1.6 1.5 1.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.3 1.4
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 2 3
 
8.6 9.2 11.2 Shots (avg) S ( 6.2 6.6 7.6
4.3 4.2 4.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.8 3.1 3.9
39% 39% 27% Goal Efficiency G E 57% 36% 39%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Linfield 33 22 4 7 76 34 17 14 2 1 49 9 16 8 2 6 27 25 42 70
2 Glentoran 33 18 9 6 61 29 16 11 4 1 35 11 17 7 5 5 26 18 32 63
3 Coleraine 33 18 8 7 50 32 17 10 4 3 24 13 16 8 4 4 26 19 18 62
4 Cliftonville 33 16 8 9 55 35 17 12 2 3 37 17 16 4 6 6 18 18 20 56
5 Larne 33 15 10 8 56 35 17 9 5 3 30 14 16 6 5 5 26 21 21 55
6 Crusaders 33 16 5 12 59 40 16 9 2 5 33 18 17 7 3 7 26 22 19 53
7 Glenavon 33 14 10 9 56 57 16 6 7 3 28 27 17 8 3 6 28 30 -1 52
8 Ballymena United 33 13 7 13 50 40 17 6 4 7 24 22 16 7 3 6 26 18 10 46
9 Portadown 33 8 6 19 40 65 17 4 3 10 19 26 16 4 3 9 21 39 -25 30
10 Warrenpoint Town 33 6 9 18 32 65 16 2 6 8 19 29 17 4 3 10 13 36 -33 27
11 Carrick Rangers 33 4 8 21 28 77 16 2 5 9 20 33 17 2 3 12 8 44 -49 20
12 Dungannon Swifts 33 4 4 25 18 72 16 3 0 13 11 33 17 1 4 12 7 39 -54 16

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 Linfield 33 22 4 7 76 34 17 14 2 1 49 9 16 8 2 6 27 25 42 70
2 Glentoran 33 18 9 6 61 29 16 11 4 1 35 11 17 7 5 5 26 18 32 63
3 Coleraine 33 18 8 7 50 32 17 10 4 3 24 13 16 8 4 4 26 19 18 62
4 Cliftonville 33 16 8 9 55 35 17 12 2 3 37 17 16 4 6 6 18 18 20 56
5 Larne 33 15 10 8 56 35 17 9 5 3 30 14 16 6 5 5 26 21 21 55
6 Crusaders 33 16 5 12 59 40 16 9 2 5 33 18 17 7 3 7 26 22 19 53
7 Glenavon 33 14 10 9 56 57 16 6 7 3 28 27 17 8 3 6 28 30 -1 52
8 Ballymena United 33 13 7 13 50 40 17 6 4 7 24 22 16 7 3 6 26 18 10 46
9 Portadown 33 8 6 19 40 65 17 4 3 10 19 26 16 4 3 9 21 39 -25 30
10 Warrenpoint Town 33 6 9 18 32 65 16 2 6 8 19 29 17 4 3 10 13 36 -33 27
11 Carrick Rangers 33 4 8 21 28 77 16 2 5 9 20 33 17 2 3 12 8 44 -49 20
12 Dungannon Swifts 33 4 4 25 18 72 16 3 0 13 11 33 17 1 4 12 7 39 -54 16

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