Carrick Rangers vs Cliftonville Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Carrick Rangers

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Carrick Rangers are hoping to win again after their last result, the 2-3 Premiership victory vs Dungannon Swifts.

For Carrick Rangers, the scorers were Curtis Allen (51') and Nedas Maciulaitis (60', 66'). Dean Curry (14') and Caolan Marron (82') scored for Dungannon Swifts.

It has not been often in recent games where Carrick Rangers haven’t conceded. It will be a concern for them that Carrick Rangers have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 14 goals along the way. However, we’ll just have to find out whether such a trend might be maintained here in this game.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Carrick Rangers:

• have not emerged victorious against Cliftonville in their last 11 league games.
• have not won at home in their last 2 league matches.

Cliftonville

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Cliftonville will go into this game following on from a 1-0 Premiership win with the defeat of Newry City in their last match.

The only player to score from Cliftonville was Ronan Hale (23').

A run of steadfast performances by the Cliftonville defenders has seen their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 4 from their last 6 outings in total. During the same period, the number of goals that they have scored themselves amounts to 10.

Going into this contest, Cliftonville have not lost to Carrick Rangers in away games against them for the last 3 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at their past head to head meetings going back to 05/02/2022 shows that these fixtures have been a source of anguish for Carrick Rangers. They’ve not been able to get any victories whatsoever while Cliftonville have maintained the edge over them, running out winners in 83% of those matches played.

There were also plenty of goals scored in those games, 22 overall at an average of 3.67 goals per match.

ℹ️ Team News: Carrick Rangers

The Carrick Rangers manager Stuart King doesn’t have any fitness concerns at all coming into this clash owing to a fully healthy squad available for selection.

ℹ️ Team News: Cliftonville

From a largely healthy group of players, there’s just the one fitness problem for the Cliftonville boss Jim Magilton to be concerned with. Ryan Curran (Groin injury) misses out for this game.

🔮 Prediction

We envisage that Cliftonville have it within them to dominate on the ball and be rewarded with decent chances.

At the other end, Carrick Rangers may well struggle scoring although we think that they will probably end up managing to get on the scoresheet as well here.

Accordingly, we see a pretty comfortable 1-3 winning margin for Cliftonville at the end of the 90 minutes.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 00:12 15/11/2023