Cliftonville vs Glentoran Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Cliftonville

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Cliftonville will be hoping for a better result following the 0-2 Premiership defeat in their last game at the hands of Crusaders.

Paul Heatley (43') and Ben Kennedy (62') scored for Crusaders.

Their most recent results reveal that huge efforts have been put in by the Cliftonville rearguard. Cliftonville have been miserly, resulting in the number of goals that have flown into the back of their net during their last 6 clashes standing at 4. Still, we must now wait to see if that pattern will persist here in this game.

Coming into this fixture, Cliftonville haven't lost in the league to Glentoran in their last 2 matches.

Glentoran

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Following on from suffering a loss in their previous game against Larne in Premiership competition, Glentoran will be hoping to turn things around here.

For Glentoran, the goalscorers were Jay Donnelly (22') and Rhys Marshall (54' Own goal). Andy Scott (13'), Tomas Cosgrove (62' Own goal) and David McDaid (70') scored for Larne.

In their previous six clashes, Glentoran have helped themselves to a tally of 13 goals. Glentoran have also not failed to score in every single one of those games. During those fixtures, they have seen 5 goals scored by their opponents.

Going into this contest, Glentoran are undefeated in their last 8 away league matches. They really have been good on their travels.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their prior head-to-head clashes going back to 07/03/2020 tells us that Cliftonville have won 4 of them and Glentoran 2, with the tally of draws being 0.

A combined sum of 9 goals were scored between them in these games, with 6 of them from The Reds and 3 belonging to The Glens. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 1.5.

The last league meeting featuring these sides was Premiership match day 3 on 04/09/2021 which finished with the scoreline of Cliftonville 1-0 Glentoran.

The referee was Tim Marshall.

📰 Team News: Cliftonville

The Cliftonville boss Paddy McLaughlin has zero fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this game with a completely injury-free squad available to choose from.

🗞️ Team News: Glentoran

Owing to a fully injury-free group available for selection, the Glentoran manager Mick McDermott doesn’t have any fitness worries to report before this match.

🔮 Prediction

Our thinking is that Glentoran and Cliftonville are both capable of scoring here.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes, with a good chance of a draw. Our tip is therefore for a tight encounter with a 1-1 score draw at the end of the 90 minutes.

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

Victor Martins, 01:04 13/01/2022