Glenavon vs Cliftonville Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Glenavon

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Glenavon prepare for this match coming off the back of a 0-0 Premiership stalemate vs Cliftonville.

It has been all too rare in recent games that Glenavon have shown defensive steel. The facts show that Glenavon have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 6 of their previous 6 games, giving up 14 goals in the process. Having said that, we must now wait to see whether such a trend shall be replicated in this upcoming game.

Cliftonville

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Cliftonville have been a threat going forward of late, scoring 12 times in their previous 6 matches. Having said that, Cliftonville have had their own issues at the back, also conceding in 6 of those same games.

👥 Head to head

Looking at past results between these clubs going back to 14/12/2020 reveals that these fixtures have ended in disappointment for Glenavon. They have not been able to get themselves any victories at all while Cliftonville have been the better of the two, winning in 67 per cent of those matches.

14 goals were scored between them in this period, with 4 of them for The Lurgan Blues and 10 created by The Reds. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.33.

The previous league contest between the two was Premiership match day 32 on 19/03/2022 when the final score was Glenavon 0-2 Cliftonville.

The match was refereed by Tony Clarke.

📋 Team News: Glenavon

It’s a low absenteeism rate, with just the lone fitness concern for the Glenavon gaffer Gary Hamilton to be concerned with from a near full-strength group of players. Peter Campbell (Hip problems) is sidelined.

🗞️ Team News: Cliftonville

Owing to a fully healthy squad available to choose from, the Cliftonville manager Paddy McLaughlin doesn’t have any fitness worries at all before this game.

✨ Prediction

We feel that over the course of the game, Glenavon will need things to go their way to find the net against this Cliftonville side who we reckon should just have the edge.

We’re therefore predicting a very competitive game with a 0-1 advantage for Cliftonville at full-time.

Should be interesting.

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Lucas Pereira, 01:46 13/09/2022