Linfield expected to show superhero qualities when Carrick Rangers visits

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Competition: Northern Ireland Premiership
Competition: Sat 17.October
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Windsor Park (24734 seats)

A new Premiership season is about to begin and this is the first proper game for Linfield and Carrick Rangers. Bring it on!

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Linfield form and stats

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

Linfield could celebrate like crazy last season after winning the Premiership. Home supporters are hoping for more of the same this season. In the home games here at Windsor Park they witnessed 12 victories, 2 draws and 1 defeat. In total the trophy was secured after W22 - D3 - L6 from 31 games.

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Carrick Rangers form and stats

As mentioned above, the bookmakers do not believe the away team will get anything from this match. Checking Carrick's match history for similar games we find five matches. The home team won five of these as expected, four of them by at least two goals. Carrick Rangers managed zero draws and zero surprise wins.

It's a day of discovery for Carrick Rangers 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 Carrick Rangers have played three with the results W2-D1-L0 (win-draw-lost). In these games Carrick Rangers has scored 8 goals and conceded 3 times.

Let's have a look at how Carrick Rangers performed last season in the Premiership: They landed a 8th position in the league table after playing out 10 victories, 2 draws and 19 defeats. In total they scored 34 and conceded 47 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 5 - drew 2 and lost 8 with 17/22 goals scored/conceded.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's nine Linfield victories, zero draws and one Carrick Rangers win. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, eight matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

LinfieldA. Waterworth
A. Waterworth
13 goals
LinfieldS. Lavery
S. Lavery
10 goals

Linfield missing players

Carrick Rangers missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Linfield Carrick Rangers
Total Home vs top 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%
Linfield Last season Carrick Rangers
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
31 15   Played P   15 31
22 12   Won W   5 10
3 2   Drew D   2 2
6 1   Lost L   8 19
71 44   Scored S   17 34
24 9   Conceded C   22 47
97% 93%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   87% 94%
74% 73%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   80% 71%
58% 60%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   60% 55%
29% 40%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   27% 23%
19% 27%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   7% 10%
42% 40%   BTTS BTTS   33% 35%
45% 60%   Clean Sheets C S   40% 32%
16% 7%   Failed to Score F T   40% 39%
 
0 0   Corners for (avg) C F   0 0
0 0   Corners against (avg) C A   0 0
1.2 1   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.5 2.1
3 2   Red cards R C   1 2
 
301 188   Total Shots T S   107 278
127 82   Shots on Target S O   54 128
48% 45%   Goal Efficiency G E   31% 27%

  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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