Warrenpoint Town vs Crusaders Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Warrenpoint Town

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Warrenpoint Town will be hoping to bounce back here after a 1-2 Premiership losing effort in their last game against Dungannon Swifts.

The only player to score from Warrenpoint Town was Adam Wixted (59'). James Knowles (65') and Darragh McBrien (85') scored for Dungannon Swifts.

It has been a rare occasion in recent games that Warrenpoint Town have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The facts show that Warrenpoint Town have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 11 goals in the process.

Going into this one, Warrenpoint Town are without a win at home for the past 10 league matches. It's been disappointing.

Crusaders

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Crusaders will come into the clash after a 0-2 Premiership win in the defeat of Cliftonville in their last game.

For Crusaders, the goalscorers were Paul Heatley (43') and Ben Kennedy (62').

A succession of accomplished showings from the Crusaders defensive unit has resulted in the number of goals they’ve conceded standing at 1 from their last 6 outings overall. Over that same period, their own forwards have managed to score 8. We will just have to see whether or not that trend will end up being sustained in this game.

👥 Head to head

A review of their past head to head clashes dating back to 23/11/2019 tells us that Warrenpoint Town have won 1 of them and Crusaders 5, with the number of draws standing at 0.

An aggregate of 18 goals were scored between them in these games, with 4 for The Point and 14 created by The Hatchetmen. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.

The previous league game between the two was Premiership match day 11 on 30/10/2021 when the final score was Warrenpoint Town 2-4 Crusaders.

The match was refereed by Lee Tavinder.

📋 Team News: Warrenpoint Town

The Warrenpoint Town boss Barry Gray will be thankful to have no fitness worries at all ahead of this game thanks to a completely healthy squad ready to go.

🗞️ Team News: Crusaders

Owing to a fully injury-free squad available for selection, the Crusaders manager Stephen Baxter has no fitness worries to report ahead of this match.

💭 Prediction

We’re thinking that Warrenpoint Town are likely to score against this Crusaders lineup, although just one goal probably won’t be enough.

Our tip is for a narrow 1-2 winning margin for Crusaders when the full-time whistle blows. Should be a good one.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 01:00 11/01/2022