Glentoran vs Ballymena United Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Glentoran

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Glentoran won’t want a repeat of their last result here following a 0-2 Premiership losing effort in their last game against Glenavon.

Conor McCloskey (26') and Matthew Fitzpatrick (73') scored for Glenavon.

Rodney McAree's Glentoran have found the net 12 times in their prior 6 outings. The corresponding tally of goals that have been scored against them in those fixtures stands at 5.

Coming into this contest, Glentoran haven’t won at home in the past 2 league matches.

Ballymena United

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Since suffering a loss in their previous game against Coleraine in Premiership action, Ballymena United will be hoping to turn things around here.

The only player to score from Ballymena United was Joshua Kelly (34'). Jamie Glackin (30'), Conor McKendry (41') and Josh Carson (54') scored for Coleraine.

The stats don’t lie, and Ballymena United have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 11 goals in total. In defence, Ballymena United have not been doing too well. However, we’ll just have to find out whether such a trend will persist in this game.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Ballymena United:

• have not beaten Glentoran in games played away from home for the previous 2 matches in the league.
• have not won away from home in their last 6 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their most recent head to head meetings dating back to 06/04/2021 shows that Glentoran have won 3 of these games and Ballymena United 1, with the tally of drawn results being 2.

A total of 21 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 14 of them from The Glens and 7 created by Sky Blues. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.5.

The last league fixture featuring the two was Premiership match day 29 on 17/02/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Ballymena United 1-3 Glentoran.

The match was refereed by Tony Clarke.

📋 Team News: Glentoran

The Glentoran manager Rodney McAree will be grateful to have no fitness worries whatsoever coming into this match owing to a fully healthy group ready to go.

🗞️ Team News: Ballymena United

Thanks to a fully injury-free squad available for selection, the Ballymena United manager David Jeffrey doesn’t have any fitness concerns to report coming into this match.

💡 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Glentoran will likely create enough chances to score more than one when they meet Ballymena United, who may well find it hard to break down their defence.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a pretty comfortable 2-0 margin for Glentoran when the full-time whistle blows.

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

Victor Martins, 02:06 11/03/2023