Ballymena United vs Glenavon Live Stream, Predictions

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Ballymena United

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Ballymena United will be hoping for a better result after a 2-1 Premiership loss in their previous game against Carrick Rangers.

The only player to score from Ballymena United was Noah Stewart (94'). Ben Tilney (66') and Danny Gibson (77') scored for Carrick Rangers.

Matches with Ballymena United have proved to be exciting encounters of late with a lot of goalmouth action being the norm. Over their past 6 games, a total of 22 goals have gone in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.67 goals per game) with 6 of those coming from Ballymena United.

Going into this contest, Ballymena United haven’t won at home in the past 5 league games. Things will have to change soon.

Glenavon

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

Ryan Waide (16'), Andrew Hoey (42'), Caolan Loughran (82' Own goal) and Ben Magee (93') scored for Loughgall.

Proving their fondness for eventful matches, goals have been seen as many as 23 times in the prior 6 games in which Glenavon have taken to the pitch, giving an average of 3.83 goals each fixture. Opposing teams have managed 13 of this grand total. That pattern isn’t assured to be continued here, of course.

Their prior results show that Glenavon:

• remain unbeaten by Ballymena United when having played them away from home in the previous 5 league games. An impressive run.
• have not won away from home in their last 5 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A look at their past head to head clashes stretching back to 28/10/2022 tells us that Ballymena United have won 1 of them & Glenavon 5, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 0.

A sum of 14 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 5 of them for Sky Blues and 9 for The Lurgan Blues. The average goals per game has been 2.33.

The last league contest featuring these clubs was Premiership match day 24 on 30/12/2023 which ended up with the score at Glenavon 0-1 Ballymena United.

The referee was Declan Hassan.

📋 Team News: Ballymena United

Nearly everyone is up for selection, with just a single fitness concern for the Ballymena United gaffer Jim Ervin to be concerned with thanks to an otherwise robust group. Colin Coates (Knee surgery) is sidelined.

ℹ️ Team News: Glenavon

Thanks to a largely available squad, there is only the sole fitness problem for the Glenavon manager Stephen McDonnell to be concerned about. Isaac Baird (Cruciate ligament tear) won’t be in action. Peter Campbell cannot play in this game through suspension.

🔮 Prediction

We’re envisaging that Ballymena United will need things to go their way to break down this Glenavon outfit who we reckon will get the win and a maybe even keep a clean sheet as well.

We’re therefore seeing a 0-1 victory for Glenavon at the end of this one.

Looking forward to this.

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Victor Martins, 14:11 16/04/2024