Crusaders vs Cliftonville Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Crusaders

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Crusaders will be looking for another win after the 4-0 Premiership victory vs Portadown.

For Crusaders, the scorers were Paul Heatley (32'), Johnny McMurray (56'), Billy Joe Burns (61') and Ben Kennedy (66').

A common trait of more recent Crusaders games is the number of nil scores.

From their prior six clashes leading up to this one, in 5 of them a wager on both teams scoring would've been a losing one. That kind of trend won’t necessarily be carried forward into this match, however.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Crusaders:

• haven't been beaten in the league by Cliftonville in their last 5 matches.
• have left without a victory over Cliftonville in their previous 3 league games.

Cliftonville

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Cliftonville will come into the game after a 1-0 Premiership win with the eclipse of Glentoran in their most recent match.

The only name on the scoresheet from Cliftonville was Ryan Curran (70').

In the course of their six latest matches, Paddy McLaughlin's Cliftonville have found the back of the net 6 times therefore earning them the goals per game average of 1.

Going into this one, Cliftonville haven't won against Crusaders in games played away from home for the previous 3 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

Drawn results are a common outcome in games between these two clubs. In their head to head meetings dating back to 03/03/2020, fans have seen 5 of these. That’s an unusually high 83% of games being drawn.

In all, 11 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 6 from The Hatchetmen and 5 created by The Reds. That’s an average goals per game of 1.83.

ℹ️ Team News: Crusaders

The Crusaders manager Stephen Baxter has no fitness worries at all before this clash thanks to a completely injury-free squad available to select from.

🗞️ Team News: Cliftonville

Owing to a completely healthy squad available to choose from, the Cliftonville manager Paddy McLaughlin doesn’t have any fitness worries to report ahead of this match.

🧠 Prediction

We believe that Cliftonville will likely create enough chances to break down this Crusaders side, although that probably won’t prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We’re tipping a 2-1 advantage for Crusaders by the conclusion of the game. There looks to be little in this one.

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

Victor Martins, 23:46 07/09/2021