📏 Form Guide

Carrick Rangers

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Carrick Rangers won’t want a repeat of their last result here after the 3-0 Premiership loss in their previous game against Cliftonville.

Shea Gordon (45'), Ryan Curran (55') and Alex Parsons (87') scored for Cliftonville.

Carrick Rangers have found it difficult to unlock defences in recent times. Their ‘goals for’ figure stands at just 2 versus opposition teams during the course of their last six outings. In those meetings, Carrick Rangers have also seen the number of goals scored against them come to 7.

Cliftonville

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Cliftonville head into the match after a 0-3 Irish Cup win over Ards in their last outing.

For Cliftonville, the goalscorers were Joe Gormley (29') and Alex Parsons (72').

During their 6 latest matches, Jim Magilton's Cliftonville have found the net 7 times, yielding them a goals per game average of 1.17.

👥 Head to head

Checking on their prior head to head meetings going back to 19/08/2023 shows us that Carrick Rangers have won 1 of these games & Cliftonville 5, with the number of drawn games standing at 0.

A sum of 16 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 2 from The Gers and 14 belonging to The Reds. That’s an average goals per game of 2.67.

The previous league meeting featuring these clubs was Premiership match day 33 on 22/03/2025 when the final score was Cliftonville 3-0 Carrick Rangers.

The match was refereed by Mark Dillon.

🗞️ Team News: Carrick Rangers

There aren’t many selection issues, with just one fitness concern for the Carrick Rangers manager Stephen Baxter to contend with from an otherwise complete group of players. Cameron Stewart (surgery) misses out.

💡 Prediction

We think that Carrick Rangers will do well to break down this Cliftonville team who will likely get a goal themselves and run out victorious.

Therefore, we predict a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 0-1 win for Cliftonville at the end of this game.

Hoping for a good game.

Renata Leite, 18:07 01/04/2025