Betting guide: Larne favourite to beat Dungannon Swifts at Inver Park

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Competition: Northern Ireland Premiership
Competition: Sat 17.October
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Inver Park (1100 seats)

Larne and Dungannon Swifts supporters have their finest supporter outfits for this first game week of a new Premiership season. Game on!

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Larne form and stats

Larne have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and four practice matches played. These training games have ended with 3 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Larne scored 5 goals and let in 1 goal during these four games.

Last season, Larne's league statistics were 16 wins, 8 draws and 7 losses, resulting in a 6th position in the Premiership. Over these 31 matches they scored 59 goals and conceded 29. Playing at home last season Larne managed 7-6-3 (win-draw-lost) with 32 goals and 15 conceded.

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Dungannon Swifts form and stats

With the home team given a winning probability of about 80% by the bookmakers, any positive result for the visitors would be a surprise. Checking earlier matches with similar odds with Dungannon as the away team, we found two results. Statistics from these were zero away wins, two draws and zero defeats. The outsiders lost zero of these games by at least two goals.

It's a day of discovery for Dungannon Swifts as they finally learn what impact all the hours of pre-season training, along with the changes in personnel, have had on their performance in an official game. It's never easy knowing what to expect based on friendly games, of which Dungannon have played six with the results W6-D0-L0 (win-draw-lost). In these games Dungannon Swifts has scored 15 goals and conceded 4 times.

Let's have a look at how Dungannon Swifts performed last season in the Premiership: They landed a 9th position in the league table after playing out 8 victories, 6 draws and 17 defeats. In total they scored 36 and conceded 76 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 2 - drew 3 and lost 10 with 13/43 goals scored/conceded.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - two - three (Larne wins - draws - Dungannon Swifts wins). As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

LarneD. McDaid
D. McDaid
13 goals
LarneJ. McMurray
J. McMurray
11 goals
LarneM. Donnelly
M. Donnelly
9 goals

Larne missing players

Dungannon Swifts missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Larne Dungannon Swifts
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
0 0 0 Played P 0 0 0
0 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost L 0 0 0
0 0 0 Scored S 0 0 0
0 0 0 Conceded C 0 0 0
0% 0% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
0 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 0
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
0 0 0 Total Shots T S 0 0 0
0 0 0 Shots on Target S O 0 0 0
0% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 0%
Larne Last season Dungannon Swifts
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
31 16   Played P   15 31
16 7   Won W   2 8
8 6   Drew D   3 6
7 3   Lost L   10 17
59 32   Scored S   13 36
29 15   Conceded C   43 76
87% 81%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   87% 94%
71% 69%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   80% 84%
58% 56%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   73% 68%
39% 44%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   53% 52%
19% 25%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   53% 35%
45% 50%   BTTS BTTS   47% 52%
45% 50%   Clean Sheets C S   13% 13%
23% 19%   Failed to Score F T   53% 42%
 
0 0   Corners for (avg) C F   0 0
0 0   Corners against (avg) C A   0 0
1.6 1.8   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2 1.7
2 0   Red cards R C   1 1
 
267 138   Total Shots T S   102 159
152 74   Shots on Target S O   49 76
36% 38%   Goal Efficiency G E   22% 28%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Ballymena United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Carrick Rangers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Cliftonville 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Coleraine 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Crusaders 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Dungannon Swifts 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Glenavon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Glentoran 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Larne 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Linfield 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Portadown 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Warrenpoint Town 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Last season 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 31 22 3 6 71 24 15 12 2 1 44 9 16 10 1 5 27 15 47 69
2 Coleraine 31 19 8 4 64 24 15 9 5 1 29 10 16 10 3 3 35 14 40 65
3 Crusaders 31 17 8 6 66 30 16 10 3 3 35 13 15 7 5 3 31 17 36 59
4 Cliftonville 31 18 5 8 48 22 15 9 2 4 23 11 16 9 3 4 25 11 26 59
5 Glentoran 31 17 7 7 60 33 16 10 3 3 34 13 15 7 4 4 26 20 27 58
6 Larne 31 16 8 7 59 29 16 7 6 3 32 15 15 9 2 4 27 14 30 56
7 Glenavon 31 10 5 16 46 71 15 7 5 3 27 20 16 3 0 13 19 51 -25 35
8 Carrick Rangers 31 10 2 19 34 47 16 5 0 11 17 25 15 5 2 8 17 22 -13 32
9 Dungannon Swifts 31 8 6 17 36 76 16 6 3 7 23 33 15 2 3 10 13 43 -40 30
10 Ballymena United 31 7 6 18 34 54 16 4 3 9 20 30 15 3 3 9 14 24 -20 27
11 Warrenpoint Town 31 5 3 23 26 85 15 3 1 11 15 40 16 2 2 12 11 45 -59 18
12 Institute 31 2 9 20 23 72 15 1 2 12 8 41 16 1 7 8 15 31 -49 15

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 Ballymena United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Carrick Rangers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Cliftonville 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Coleraine 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Crusaders 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Dungannon Swifts 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Glenavon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Glentoran 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Larne 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Linfield 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Portadown 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Warrenpoint Town 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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