📊 Form Guide

Cliftonville

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Cliftonville will be looking for another win after the 5-0 Premiership success over Ballymena United.

For Cliftonville, goals were scored by Shea Gordon (5'), Joe Gormley (55'), Eric McWoods (82', 93') and Ryan Curran (92').

Their more recent scorelines really do illustrate the point that there has been much resilience in the Cliftonville rearguard. Cliftonville have been stingy, resulting in the number of goals that have gone in at their end over the course of their past six matches standing at 4. Let’s see whether or not that trend will end up being continued on in this game.

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

• have not registered a win against Glenavon in their last 2 matches in the league.
• are undefeated in their previous 2 home league matches.

Glenavon

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Since a losing effort in their last game against Loughgall in Premiership action, Glenavon and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

Kirk McLaughlin (59') scored for Loughgall.

For 5 of the past 6 games involving Glenavon, a comparatively low number of goals have gone in between them and opposing teams. The overall average goals scored per game within that spell is a paltry 2.17, with the average goals for The Lurgan Blues being 0.67.

A look at their previous results shows us that Glenavon:

• have not beaten Cliftonville in games played away from home for the previous 11 matches in the league. Very poor away form.
• are without an away win for the past 3 league games.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their most recent head to head meetings going back to 13/10/2023 shows that Cliftonville have won 4 of them and Glenavon 1, with the number of drawn matches standing at 1.

In all, 19 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 11 for The Reds and 8 coming from The Lurgan Blues. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.17.

The previous league contest between the two was Premiership match day 29 on 15/02/2025 when it ended Glenavon 3-1 Cliftonville.

The match was refereed by Chris Morrison.

📋 Team News: Glenavon

Thanks to a largely available squad, there’s only the one fitness issue for the Glenavon manager Paddy McLaughlin to contend with. Mark Haughey (Knock) misses out for this game.

💡 Prediction

We’re thinking that Glenavon have the capability to break down this Cliftonville team, although it is unlikely to be enough to prevent defeat.

We are anticipating a close game with a 2-1 win for Cliftonville by the time that the referee blows the final whistle. There looks to be little in this one.

Lucas Pereira, 13:11 12/04/2025