Carrick Rangers vs Cliftonville Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Carrick Rangers

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Carrick Rangers won’t want a repeat of their last result here after a 0-2 Premiership loss in their previous game against Coleraine.

Curtis Allen (58', 76') scored for Coleraine.

It’s been seldom in recent games that Carrick Rangers have kept a clean sheet. The reality is that The Gers have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 games, leaking 9 goals during that time.

Their past results show that Carrick Rangers:

• have not won against Cliftonville in their previous 2 league games.
• are without a home win in the past 5 league matches. Their supporters are understandably frustrated.

Cliftonville

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Cliftonville will go into the meeting after a 2-1 Premiership win vs Ballymena United in their most recent fixture.

The only scorer from Cliftonville was Paul O'Neill (82'). Shay McCartan (42') scored for Ballymena United.

Throughout their 6 latest matches, Paddy McLaughlin's Cliftonville have seen their efforts on goal rewarded 9 times, yielding them the goals per game average of 1.5.

Coming into this clash, Cliftonville are without an away win for the past 3 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head to head meetings going back to 04/11/2017 tells us that Carrick Rangers have won 1 of them & Cliftonville 5, with the tally of draws standing at 0.

13 goals were scored between them in these games, with 2 of them for The Gers and 11 created by The Reds. That’s an average goals per game of 2.17.

The previous league clash between these clubs was Premiership match day 3 on 31/10/2020 which finished with the scoreline of Cliftonville 3-0 Carrick Rangers.

The referee was Andrew Davey.

ℹ️ Team News: Carrick Rangers

Carrick Rangers boss Niall Currie has zero fitness worries at all before this clash owing to a completely injury-free group ready to go.

📋 Team News: Cliftonville

Thanks to a fully healthy group ready to go, Cliftonville manager Paddy McLaughlin doesn’t have any fitness worries to report ahead of this clash.

💭 Prediction

We feel that over the course of the game, Carrick Rangers will have their work cut out to see themselves scoring against this Cliftonville team who we think might just have the edge.

Our tip is therefore for a very even contest with a 0-1 winning margin for Cliftonville at the end of this game.

Let’s see.

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

Andre Moura, 11:25 23/02/2021