Carrick Rangers vs Glenavon Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Carrick Rangers

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Carrick Rangers will play in this game after a 0-0 Premiership drawn game against Crusaders.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent games that Carrick Rangers have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, Carrick Rangers have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 12 goals on the way. That sort of pattern won’t necessarily be sustained into this next game, however.

Going into this encounter, Carrick Rangers are without a home win in the past 7 league games. That's never good.

Glenavon

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After a losing effort in their last game against Cliftonville in Premiership action, Glenavon will be aiming to make amends here.

Levi Ives (17') and Ryan Curran (54') scored for Cliftonville.

The trend of at least one team not scoring a goal in games involving Glenavon has been apparent in recent matches. Checking on their last 6 meetings shows that it has happened 6 times. During these clashes, opposing sides have hit a goal tally of 4 while Glenavon have scored 5.

Going into this contest, Glenavon have not been beaten by Carrick Rangers in away games against them for the last 2 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

A review of their past head to head clashes dating back to 10/12/2019 shows us that Carrick Rangers have won 1 of these & Glenavon 3, with the number of draws being 2.

There were also plenty of goals scored in those games, 25 in total which averages out at 4.17 goals per meeting.

The last league match featuring the two was Premiership match day 4 on 11/09/2021 and the score finished Glenavon 0-4 Carrick Rangers.

The referee was Shane Andrews.

🗞️ Team News: Carrick Rangers

Nearly everyone is up for selection, with just the sole fitness concern for the Carrick Rangers manager Stuart King to be concerned about due to a largely intact set of players. Lee McNulty (Ankle Injury) is sidelined.

🗞️ Team News: Glenavon

Due to a fully healthy group to choose from, the Glenavon boss Gary Hamilton doesn’t have any fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this match.

💭 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Carrick Rangers will have to play well to put one past this Glenavon outfit who we think will win and very possibly keep a clean sheet.

We’re going for a 0-1 winning score for Glenavon at the end of this one.

Should be interesting.

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

Andre Moura, 01:00 11/01/2022