Cliftonville travel to Linfield and Windsor Park packed with happy thoughts, but the team playing at home is hard to beat. More information on the game here!
- Linfield have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Cliftonville have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
Linfield's stadium, Windsor Park, has a grass surface. Cliftonville have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Cliftonville when playing on grass; 21 wins, 13 draws and 9 losses from 43 matches. They have scored {66 goals} in these games and conceded 48.
There's local pride at stake here, as these teams are practically neighbours. Expect lots of passion from both players and supporters.
It's no vacation for neither Linfield nor Cliftonville as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Linfield form and stats
When playing at home in the Premiership, Linfield have managed 2 wins, 0 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 4 games.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Chris Johns not having conceded a league goal in 199 minutes.
A good away victory last time out for Linfield, who won 3-0 against Portadown (placed 12th).
In the preceding match a 2-0 victory visiting Newry City AFC.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Linfield have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 7 games) they have won 3 times, drawn 4 and lost 0.
Scoring bonanza? Nobody knows what will happen in this one, but we do know that 9 of the 12 latest league matches with this team has contained three or more goals.
Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Premiership game versus Glenavon in only four days. This game is also played here at Windsor Park.
Linfield can score goals in their home matches. After 4 league matches they have found the net 9 times. Linfield have conceded 9 goals in these home games, a significant number.
Cliftonville form and stats
Cliftonville have an excellent away record in the Premiership so far with 4-0-2 from 6 games.
Cliftonville's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Glenavon that finished 2-2. Drawing 2-2 against Glenavon after 90 minutes last time out was very disappointing after leading the match 2-0. Their manager McLaughlin needs to evaluate why the team couldn't defend their result. The draw against Glenavon came from a losing position. The Cliftonville manager McLaughlin brought on Gormley as a substitute and the player scored to make the scores level.
Before that, Cliftonville secured a home win against Carrick Rangers with the score 1-0.We have checked recent matches where Cliftonville have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 7 games were 0 victories, 3 draws and 4 defeats.
Goal-happy betting people should observe that 9 of this club's 12 most recent league rounds have ended with at least three goals.
Cliftonville have another match that requires travelling in just four nights, a Premiership match against Dungannon Swifts. A hard diary for the guests!
Cliftonville has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 10 goals from 6 games. Cliftonville struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 11 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
Linfield have won or drawn the last 7 matches (3-4-0) versus Cliftonville.Top Goalscorers
  R. Hale 10 goals | R. Curran 7 goals |  J. Cooper 5 goals |
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| Linfield | Cliftonville | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 4 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 6 | 12 |
| 7 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 24 | 9 | 2 | Scored | S | 6 | 10 | 24 |
| 14 | 9 | 7 | Conceded | C | 5 | 11 | 17 |
| 92% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 83% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 83% | 75% |
| 75% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 83% | 75% |
| 42% | 75% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 50% | 58% |
| 17% | 50% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 17% | 25% |
| 42% | 50% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 67% | 58% |
| 50% | 25% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 17% | 33% |
| 17% | 25% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 17% |
| 6.3 | 5 | 3.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.3 | 3.8 | 4 |
| 4.6 | 4.2 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.7 | 4.7 | 3.8 |
| 1.8 | 2.2 | 3.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.6 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 10.3 | 10.5 | 6.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.7 | 9 | 10 |
| 5.4 | 6 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 4 | 5 |
| 37% | 38% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 60% | 42% | 40% |
| 9.1 | 12.5 | 15.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.7 | 9.5 | 8.3 |
| 3.9 | 5 | 6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 4.3 | 3.9 |
- All of Linfield's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Cliftonville have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Cliftonville haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Linfield have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Linfield have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- 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 | Glentoran | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 25 | 31 |
| 2 | Larne | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 29 |
| 3 | Crusaders | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 29 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 26 |
| 4 | Cliftonville | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 26 |
| 5 | Coleraine | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 25 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 7 | 10 | 22 |
| 6 | Linfield | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 24 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 22 |
| 7 | Glenavon | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 28 | 26 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 16 |
| 8 | Carrick Rangers | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 20 | 26 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 15 | -6 | 16 |
| 9 | Ballymena United | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -5 | 14 |
| 10 | Newry City AFC | 13 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 12 | 26 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 16 | -14 | 9 |
| 11 | Dungannon Swifts | 13 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 33 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 21 | -26 | 4 |
| 12 | Portadown | 13 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 33 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 18 | -29 | 1 |
