📊 Form Guide

Carrick Rangers

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Carrick Rangers will play in this game after a 2-2 Premiership stalemate vs Loughgall.

For Carrick Rangers, the scorers were Albert Watson (26') and Luke McCullough (52'). Kirk McLaughlin (15') and Ben Magee (92') scored for Loughgall.

It has been seldom in recent times where Carrick Rangers have kept a clean sheet. In fact, Carrick Rangers have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 10 goals in the process.

Going into this encounter, Carrick Rangers haven't won against Glenavon in their last 2 league matches.

Glenavon

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Glenavon will come into the game after a 2-0 Premiership win to beat Ballymena United in their last match.

For Glenavon, goals were scored by Peter Campbell (60') and Luke McGerrigan (95').

Looking at their form, and Glenavon have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 7 goals overall. In defence, Glenavon seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly. That sort of pattern won’t necessarily be sustained into this next game, however.

Going into this one, Glenavon haven’t won away from home in the past 4 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their prior head to head clashes going back to 28/10/2023 shows us that Carrick Rangers have won 2 of these & Glenavon 3, with the tally of drawn results being 1.

A sum of 16 goals were produced between them in these games, with 7 for The Gers and 9 belonging to The Lurgan Blues. The average goals per game has been 2.67.

The previous league contest featuring these sides was Premiership match day 27 on 25/01/2025 when the final score was Glenavon 2-1 Carrick Rangers.

The referee was Evan Boyce.

🗞️ Team News: Carrick Rangers

Almost everyone can be considered, as there’s just one fitness concern for the Carrick Rangers manager Stephen Baxter to be concerned about thanks to an almost full-strength group of players. Cameron Stewart (surgery) won’t play.

In our view, The Gers will possibly kick off with a 4-2-3-1 system this time with Ethan Horvath, Perry Ng, Will Fish, Calum Chambers, Callum O'Dowda, Sivert Mannsverk, Andy Rinomhota, Chris Willock, Alexander Robertson, Cian Ashford and Yousef Salech.

📋 Team News: Glenavon

Thanks to a largely available squad, there’s only a single fitness problem for the Glenavon boss Paddy McLaughlin to be concerned about. Mark Haughey (Knock) won’t be in action.

We reckon that The Lurgan Blues will likely elect for a 4-2-3-1 lineup, going with Josh Griffiths, Darnell Furlong, Kyle Bartley, Mason Holgate, Torbjørn Heggem, Jayson Molumby, Ousmane Diakité, Tom Fellows, Isaac Price, Callum Styles and Will Lankshear.

⚡ Prediction

In our view, Glenavon and Carrick Rangers may both struggle to make a breakthrough here.

A draw is a real possibility, as a clear-cut winner doesn’t appear to be obvious. Therefore, we predict a very even match with a 0-0 score at full-time.

Victor Martins, 13:08 26/04/2025