Ballymena United vs Cliftonville Live Stream, Predictions

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Ballymena United

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Ballymena United will be looking for a repeat result of a 1-2 Premiership victory vs Portadown.

For Ballymena United, the scorers were Shay McCartan (41') and Ross Redman (83').

It has been all too rare in recent times that Ballymena United haven’t conceded. The reality is that Sky Blues have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 9 goals in the process.

Going into this one, Ballymena United have not been beaten in the league by Cliftonville in their last 2 matches.

Cliftonville

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Cliftonville head into the encounter following on from a 0-1 Premiership win versus Carrick Rangers in their most recent outing.

A series of steadfast showings by the Cliftonville defenders has resulted in the number of goals they’ve conceded amounting to 3 from their past 6 clashes in total. During the same period, their forwards have scored 8. However, we must now wait to see whether the trend might continue on in this upcoming match.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Cliftonville:

• have not won against Ballymena United in away games against them for the last 3 matches in the league.
• have not won away from home in their last 3 league games.

↔️ Head to head

Checking out their prior head to head duels going back to 13/04/2019, neither club has come out on top overall with Ballymena United winning 2 of those games, Cliftonville 2 and 2 being drawn in normal time.

15 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 9 for Sky Blues and 6 belonging to The Reds. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.5.

The last league meeting featuring these sides was Premiership match day 23 on 23/02/2021 when the final score was Cliftonville 2-1 Ballymena United.

The referee was Shane Andrews.

📋 Team News: Ballymena United

Ballymena United manager David Jeffrey has zero fitness concerns at all coming into this clash owing to a fully healthy squad to pick from.

📋 Team News: Cliftonville

With a completely injury-free group available to select from, Cliftonville boss Paddy McLaughlin doesn’t have any fitness concerns to report ahead of this clash.

💡 Prediction

In our view, Ballymena United might have a difficult job to score goals against this Cliftonville side who should be able to grind out a win.

We therefore see a narrow 0-1 winning score for Cliftonville at the end of this game.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 11:22 26/02/2021