2nd spot in the Premiership table for Linfield at present, a good achievement. The home team fans hope for more goals as 7th-placed Ballymena United visit Windsor Park.
- Linfield have the fewest conceded goals (9) in Premiership
- Ballymena United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Linfield and Ballymena United.
Linfield form and stats
Linfield are steadily winning Premiership games and points here at Windsor Park. 5 wins, 3 draws and 0 defeats is the summary from 8 games.
It's back home for Linfield, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Larne away with the result 1-0. Shields found the net in that victory.
Before that, Linfield drew at home versus Warrenpoint Town.A decent goal production from Linfield in their home games so far, with 15 goals from 8 league matches. As for guarding their own goal, Linfield have only let in 3 goals at home.
Ballymena United form and stats
4 wins, 0 draws and 6 losses. That’s the product of Ballymena United playing as the away team in the Premiership this season.
Ballymena play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-0 victory visiting Dungannon Swifts (placed 11th).
A 0-3 defeat away at Cliftonville before that.The visitors have scored 9 goals from 10 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Ballymena United struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 17 goals conceded from these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.
Head 2 Head
Head to head statistics (for the preceeding ten meetings): Linfield won eight games, zero matches ended in a draw and Ballymena United have two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / threeTop Goalscorers
  C. Manzinga 13 goals |   P. McElroy 5 goals |  M. Green 4 goals |
Linfield missing players
Ballymena United missing players
| Linfield | Ballymena United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 8 | 1 | Played | P | 3 | 10 | 18 |
| 11 | 5 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 32 | 15 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 9 | 19 |
| 9 | 3 | 1 | Conceded | C | 9 | 17 | 27 |
| 89% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 78% | 88% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 70% | 67% |
| 44% | 25% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 60% | 50% |
| 11% | 12% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 20% | 17% |
| 6% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 10% | 11% |
| 39% | 38% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 40% | 39% |
| 61% | 62% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 30% | 28% |
| 11% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 30% | 33% |
| 6.5 | 6.4 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5 |
| 4.1 | 4.6 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.7 | 7.4 | 5.8 |
| 1.6 | 1.5 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.7 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7.3 | 8.5 | 5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 3.3 | 6.1 | 6.8 |
| 3.5 | 4.4 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 2.4 | 2.9 |
| 51% | 43% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 38% | 36% |
| 7.2 | 6.6 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.7 | 9.2 | 9.3 |
| 2.4 | 2.4 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.3 | 3.9 | 4.4 |
- Ballymena United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Ballymena United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Linfield have not yet lost a game at home.
- Linfield have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Linfield have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Linfield have the fewest conceded goals (9) in Premiership
- Linfield have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (3) in Premiership
- Linfield have the most scored goals in the first half (19) in Premiership
- Linfield have the the best goal difference (+23) in Premiership
- Linfield haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 31 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 18 | 41 |
| 2 | Linfield | 18 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 32 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 6 | 23 | 39 |
| 3 | Glentoran | 18 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 37 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 19 | 39 |
| 4 | Crusaders | 18 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 26 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 13 | 32 |
| 5 | Larne | 19 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 33 | 22 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 14 | 11 | 32 |
| 6 | Coleraine | 18 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 29 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 16 | 30 |
| 7 | Ballymena United | 18 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 19 | 27 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 17 | -8 | 25 |
| 8 | Glenavon | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 23 | 23 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 0 | 22 |
| 9 | Carrick Rangers | 19 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 29 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 14 | -15 | 18 |
| 10 | Portadown | 19 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 20 | 41 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 24 | -21 | 12 |
| 11 | Dungannon Swifts | 18 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 22 | 48 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 23 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 25 | -26 | 12 |
| 12 | Warrenpoint Town | 18 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 14 | 44 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 10 | 30 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 14 | -30 | 7 |