Crusaders vs Glenavon Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Crusaders

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Crusaders go into this game following on from a 0-0 Premiership drawn match against Coleraine.

Fewer than three goals per game were recorded in 5 of the past 6 fixtures where Crusaders have been involved. Breaking down the goal weighting in that period, their opponents scored an aggregate of 3 and Crusaders managed a tally of 8. We will find out if that trend will end up being continued on here.

Ahead of this meeting, Crusaders are undefeated in their previous 2 home league matches.

Glenavon

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Following on from suffering a loss in their previous game against Glentoran in Premiership competition, Glenavon will be aiming to make amends here.

Conor McMenamin (13') and Ruaidhrí Donnelly (34') scored for Glentoran.

A tendency of at least one team not scoring a goal in games featuring Glenavon has been apparent in recent matches. Looking at their last six outings shows that it’s happened 6 times. In these clashes, their opponents have managed a goal aggregate of 5 and Glenavon have scored 7.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 26/10/2019 tells us that Crusaders have won 1 of these & Glenavon 4, with the number of drawn matches standing at 1.

20 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 10 from The Hatchetmen and 10 netted by The Lurgan Blues. That’s an average goals per game of 3.33.

The previous league contest between these clubs was Premiership match day 17 on 04/12/2021 which finished with the scoreline of Glenavon 1-0 Crusaders.

The match was refereed by Evan Boyce.

📋 Team News: Crusaders

The Crusaders boss Stephen Baxter will be thankful to have no fitness worries to speak of coming into this match thanks to a fully healthy group ready to go.

📋 Team News: Glenavon

Owing to a fully healthy squad available to select from, the Glenavon boss Gary Hamilton has zero fitness worries whatsoever coming into this game.

✨ Prediction

When taking all factors into account, Crusaders should get amongst the goals when they face Glenavon, who will not find it easy to score themselves.

We’re therefore anticipating a comfortable 2-0 victory for Crusaders come full-time.

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

Renata Leite, 00:09 20/12/2021