Larne will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 14 points behind Cliftonville.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
This stadium uses grass, unlike Cliftonville's home stadium. The visitors last 40 games on grass have ended in 17 wins, 5 draws and 18 losses.
Larne form and stats
The story so far in the Premiership for Larne at their home stadium (Inver Park) is 2 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats. Larne have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper not having conceded a league goal in 342 minutes.
Larne are returning here after visiting Dungannon Swifts in a Premiership game and winning with a 1-0 scoreline. In the match before that, Larne hosted Crusaders and drew the game 0-0.
The Larne manager T. Lynch has got the team scoring with 17 from 7 home games in the league. Larne's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 8 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Cliftonville form and stats
Cliftonville, who have the most points (19) away in Premiership, have an excellent away record in the Premiership so far with 6-1-1 from 8 games. Impressively, the visitors are on a seven-match winning run which they hope continue versus Larne. 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.
249 minutes! That's how long the Cliftonville goalkeeper and his defense have shut out their league opponents.
The supporters enjoyed Cliftonville's previous game versus Ballymena United (placed 7th), a Premiership 1-0 win played at home. That result followed a home victory 4-0 versus Warrenpoint Town.
The Cliftonville manager P. McLaughlin has got the team scoring on the road, with 18 away goals in 8 league matches. It's not easy to score on Cliftonville as they have only conceded 5 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the Cliftonville - Larne 1-0 earlier this season. Numbers for the last seven meetings between these two teams are: 0 wins for Larne, 3 draws and 4 wins for Cliftonville. Over 2,5 goals: 4 times; under 2,5 goals: 3 games.Top Goalscorers
  J. Gormley 13 goals |   M. Donnelly 8 goals |  J. McMurray 6 goals |
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| Larne | Cliftonville | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 3 | 8 | 16 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 30 | 17 | 0 | Scored | S | 3 | 18 | 33 |
| 15 | 8 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 5 | 9 |
| 80% | 71% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 67% | 71% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 33% | 75% | 62% |
| 60% | 57% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 62% | 50% |
| 40% | 57% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 31% |
| 33% | 57% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | 12% |
| 47% | 43% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 50% | 31% |
| 47% | 57% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 50% | 56% |
| 27% | 29% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 4.1 | 4.9 | 0 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 7 | 5.2 | 5 |
| 4.5 | 4.4 | 10 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 5.7 | 3.9 | 2.7 |
| 1.6 | 1.4 | 1 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.5 | 1.1 |
| 2 | 0 | 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 in all their away matches so far.
- Cliftonville haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Larne have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded 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 | Cliftonville | 16 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 33 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 24 | 37 |
| 2 | Coleraine | 16 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 38 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 18 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 9 | 26 | 35 |
| 3 | Crusaders | 16 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 38 | 17 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 21 | 32 |
| 4 | Linfield | 13 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 35 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 26 | 30 |
| 5 | Glentoran | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 30 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 9 | 27 |
| 6 | Larne | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 30 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 15 | 23 |
| 7 | Ballymena United | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 21 | 24 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 14 | -3 | 16 |
| 8 | Carrick Rangers | 15 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 14 | 25 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 11 | -11 | 15 |
| 9 | Dungannon Swifts | 15 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 36 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 20 | -20 | 14 |
| 10 | Glenavon | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 36 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 26 | -20 | 11 |
| 11 | Institute | 15 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 34 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 23 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 11 | -23 | 8 |
| 12 | Warrenpoint Town | 16 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 11 | 55 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 22 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 33 | -44 | 6 |