Cliftonville vs Crusaders Live Stream, Predictions

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Cliftonville

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Cliftonville are hoping to win again after their last result, the 1-2 Premiership success against Dungannon Swifts.

For Cliftonville, the goalscorers were Aaron Donnelly (28' Own goal), Chris Curran (49') and Ryan Curran (94').

It has not been often in recent games where Cliftonville have shown defensive steel. In fact, The Reds have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 10 goals during that time. Historical results aside, we’ll just have to find out if such a trend might be replicated in this match or not.

Coming into this meeting, Cliftonville have not emerged victorious against Crusaders in their previous 2 league games.

Crusaders

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Crusaders head into the match after a 4-0 Premiership win with the defeat of Warrenpoint Town in their previous fixture.

For Crusaders, the goals were scored by Adam Lecky (21') and Paul Heatley (71', 76', 81').

Over the course of their previous six outings, Crusaders have amassed a total of 16 goals. The Hatchetmen have also scored in every single one of those games. Over that period, their defenders have seen 6 goals go against them.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A glance at their past head-to-head meetings going back to 16/03/2019 shows us that Cliftonville have won 2 of these games and Crusaders 3, with the tally of drawn results standing at 1.

A total of 10 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 4 of them for The Reds and 6 for The Hatchetmen. The average number of goals per game works out to 1.67.

The last league encounter between these sides was Premiership match day 2 on 23/10/2020 when it ended Crusaders 1-0 Cliftonville.

The match was refereed by Jamie Robinson.

📰 Team News: Cliftonville

Cliftonville manager Paddy McLaughlin does not have any fitness worries to speak of before this match owing to a fully healthy group available for selection.

📋 Team News: Crusaders

With a fully healthy group available to select from, Crusaders manager Stephen Baxter has no fitness worries to speak of coming into this clash.

🔮 Prediction

We feel that over the course of the game, Cliftonville may not find it easy to register a score against this Crusaders team who we reckon will score one, at least.

Therefore, we predict a good tussle with a 0-1 winning score for Crusaders when all is said and done.

We’re expecting it to be that close.

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

Renata Leite, 00:10 08/01/2021