The visiting Linfield side should be favourites in this visit to Warrenpoint Town, as the away team holds a 41 point advantage from their 27 league games this season.
The visiting Linfield played their last game only four days ago, a Premiership match.
Warrenpoint Town form and stats
Warrenpoint Town's results here at Milltown Playing Fields in the Premiership have been very modest with 3 victories, 0 draws and 10 defeats. It's been an uphill battle for Warrenpoint Town in their home games for quite some time now, as four matches in a row are lost here. Not since the Ballymena United game have they avoided the disappointment of defeat.
A good away victory last time out for Warrenpoint Town, who won 2-1 against Carrick Rangers (placed 9th). Nobody expected Warrenpoint Town to beat Carrick Rangers in the last match, but sometimes David beats Goliath. Ahead of that match, Warrenpoint Town lost 0-4 at home to Coleraine.
A late climax in the match against Carrick Rangers as the winning goal came four minutes into overtime; scored by R. Swan.
The home team are doomed in this game if you believe the odds offered on Linfield to win. Let's see if Warrenpoint Town are capable of creating a surprise here by looking at their earlier home games as massive outsiders: seven games found revealing one Warrenpoint Town win, zero draws and six defeats.
Warrenpoint Town aren't scoring a lot here at Milltown Playing Fields in the league, with only 12 goals from 13 games. Neutralizing the opposition is a challenge, Warrenpoint Town having conceded 36 goals here at Milltown Playing Fields so far.
Linfield form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Premiership travels is 7 wins, 1 draw and 5 defeats.
A. Waterworth and R. Currie scored in Linfield's previous match, the home game against Dungannon Swifts that ended 2-1. Prior to that match, the Linfield manager D. Healy faced defeat when travelling to Larne and losing 1-3.
Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with Linfield given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed five matches with five wins as expected, zero draws and zero surprise home wins. The favourites won three of these games by at least two goals.
Linfield find the net in their away games, although not all the time. 19 goals from 13 away fixtures in the league. As opposed to that, Linfield have seen the ball go into their own net 13 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Warrenpoint Town - Linfield 0-2. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Warrenpoint Town won zero games, two matches ended with a draw and Linfield has eight wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: eight / twoTop Goalscorers
  J. Cooper 11 goals |  S. Lavery 10 goals |  A. Waterworth 9 goals |
Warrenpoint Town missing players
Linfield missing players
| Warrenpoint Town | Linfield | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 27 | 13 | 5 | Played | P | 3 | 13 | 27 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 3 | 7 | 18 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 21 | 10 | 4 | Lost | L | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| 19 | 12 | 3 | Scored | S | 10 | 19 | 59 |
| 76 | 36 | 14 | Conceded | C | 1 | 13 | 22 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 96% |
| 89% | 92% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 69% | 70% |
| 74% | 77% | 80% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 54% | 56% |
| 52% | 62% | 80% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 15% | 26% |
| 15% | 15% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 8% | 19% |
| 41% | 46% | 20% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 38% | 41% |
| 4% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 31% | 44% |
| 56% | 54% | 80% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 31% | 19% |
| 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.7 | 6 | 7.4 |
| 7.4 | 5.6 | 6.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.3 | 3.5 | 3.4 |
| 1.4 | 1.6 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.7 | 1.5 | 1.2 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 129 | 66 | 21 | Total Shots | T S | 25 | 75 | 249 |
| 50 | 26 | 11 | Shots on Target | S O | 12 | 28 | 103 |
| 36% | 46% | 27% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 83% | 57% | 48% |
- Linfield has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (10)
- Linfield has the most scored goals in the first half (33)
- Linfield have created more than twice as many corners as Warrenpoint Town.
- Linfield have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Linfield have scored more than double the goals of Warrenpoint Town.
- Linfield have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Linfield have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Linfield haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Warrenpoint Town has the fewest clean sheets (0) at home
- Warrenpoint Town has the fewest clean sheets (1)
- Warrenpoint Town has the fewest scored goals (19)
- Warrenpoint Town has the fewest scored goals in the first half (5)
- Warrenpoint Town has the the worst goal difference (-57)
- Warrenpoint Town have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- Warrenpoint Town have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Warrenpoint Town have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Warrenpoint Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Warrenpoint Town haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 27 | 18 | 3 | 6 | 59 | 22 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 40 | 9 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 19 | 13 | 37 | 57 |
| 2 | Glentoran | 27 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 58 | 28 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 34 | 10 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 24 | 18 | 30 | 56 |
| 3 | Crusaders | 27 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 63 | 23 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 33 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 30 | 11 | 40 | 55 |
| 4 | Coleraine | 27 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 55 | 23 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 27 | 9 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 28 | 14 | 32 | 53 |
| 5 | Cliftonville | 27 | 17 | 2 | 8 | 44 | 20 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 21 | 9 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 11 | 24 | 53 |
| 6 | Larne | 27 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 51 | 29 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 30 | 15 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 14 | 22 | 44 |
| 7 | Glenavon | 27 | 9 | 4 | 14 | 41 | 65 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 23 | 17 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 18 | 48 | -24 | 31 |
| 8 | Ballymena United | 27 | 8 | 5 | 14 | 42 | 46 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 22 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 23 | 24 | -4 | 29 |
| 9 | Carrick Rangers | 27 | 9 | 1 | 17 | 31 | 43 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 16 | 21 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 15 | 22 | -12 | 28 |
| 10 | Dungannon Swifts | 27 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 30 | 78 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 20 | 37 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 41 | -48 | 22 |
| 11 | Warrenpoint Town | 27 | 5 | 1 | 21 | 19 | 76 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 12 | 36 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 40 | -57 | 16 |
| 12 | Institute | 27 | 2 | 8 | 17 | 20 | 60 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 33 | 14 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 27 | -40 | 14 |