Ballymena United vs Glenavon Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Ballymena United

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Ballymena United will be wanting a better result here following the 2-1 Premiership defeat in their last game at the hands of Carrick Rangers.

The only player to score from Ballymena United was Noah Stewart (94'). Ben Tilney (66') and Danny Gibson (77') scored for Carrick Rangers.

Matches with Ballymena United have proved to be exciting encounters of late with a lot of goalmouth action being the norm. Over their past 6 games, a total of 22 goals have gone in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.67 goals per game) with 6 of those coming from Ballymena United.

Going into this contest, Ballymena United haven’t won at home in the past 5 league games. Things will have to change soon.

Glenavon

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After suffering a loss in their previous game against Loughgall in Premiership competition, Glenavon will be aiming to make amends here.

Ryan Waide (16'), Andrew Hoey (42'), Caolan Loughran (82' Own goal) and Ben Magee (93') scored for Loughgall.

Proving their fondness for eventful matches, goals have been seen as many as 23 times in the prior 6 games in which Glenavon have taken to the pitch, giving an average of 3.83 goals each fixture. Opposing teams have managed 13 of this grand total. That pattern isn’t assured to be continued here, of course.

Their prior results show that Glenavon:

• remain unbeaten by Ballymena United when having played them away from home in the previous 5 league games. An impressive run.
• have not won away from home in their last 5 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A look at their prior head-to-head clashes dating back to 28/10/2022 shows us that Ballymena United have won 1 of these games and Glenavon 5, with the tally of drawn games standing at 0.

A combined sum of 14 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 5 from Sky Blues and 9 being from The Lurgan Blues. The average goals per game has been 2.33.

The previous league clash between the two was Premiership match day 24 on 30/12/2023 when it finished Glenavon 0-1 Ballymena United.

The referee was Declan Hassan.

📋 Team News: Ballymena United

Nearly everyone is up for selection, with just one fitness concern for the Ballymena United boss Jim Ervin to be concerned with due to a largely intact group. Colin Coates (Knee surgery) is out of contention.

📋 Team News: Glenavon

Thanks to a largely available group of players, there is only the lone fitness problem for the Glenavon gaffer Stephen McDonnell to be concerned about. Isaac Baird (Cruciate ligament tear) misses out for this game. Peter Campbell will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.

🔮 Prediction

We’re envisaging that Ballymena United will need things to go their way to break down this Glenavon outfit who we reckon will get the win and a maybe even keep a clean sheet as well.

We’re therefore seeing a 0-1 victory for Glenavon at the end of this one.

Looking forward to this.

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Victor Martins, 07:11 16/04/2024