Crusaders vs Coleraine Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Crusaders

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Crusaders won’t want a repeat of their last result here following the 0-4 Premiership defeat in their last game at the hands of Glentoran.

Christie Pattisson (27'), David Fisher (34'), Jordan Jenkins (75') and Kodi Lyons-Foster (81') scored for Glentoran.

It’s been all too rare in recent games where Crusaders have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The facts show that Crusaders have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 12 goals along the way. Even so, we will just have to wait and see whether such a trend shall be maintained in this match.

Their previous form shows that Crusaders:

• haven't lost in the league to Coleraine in their previous 5 games.
• haven’t won at home in the past 4 league games. That's never good.

Coleraine

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Since a loss in their previous game against Larne in Premiership action, Coleraine will be aiming to make amends here.

The only player to score from Coleraine was Declan McManus (40'). Andy Ryan (6') and Paul O'Neill (78') scored for Larne.

Coleraine have been a threat going forward in their most recent fixtures, scoring 9 goals in their last 6 matches. While their manager Dean Shiels will no doubt take that as a positive sign, Coleraine have been somewhat leaky at the back, having also been scored against in 5 of those same games.

Pre-game facts show that Coleraine:

• haven't beaten Crusaders when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 league games.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 2 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their past head to head meetings going back to 16/03/2024 tells us that these fixtures have been pretty painful for Coleraine. They’ve not been able to get any wins at all whereas Crusaders have managed to find a way, finishing as winners in 83 per cent of those ties.

An aggregate of 17 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 12 of them for The Hatchetmen and 5 belonging to The Bannsiders. That is an average goals per game value of 2.83.

The last league match featuring these sides was Premiership match day 26 on 18/01/2025 when it finished Coleraine 0-2 Crusaders.

The match was refereed by Ian McNabb.

🗞️ Team News: Crusaders

Billy Joe Burns (Cruciate ligament injury) and Adam Lecky (Knee injury) will be missing for Crusaders manager Declan Caddell.

🔮 Prediction

Here, we’re thinking that Crusaders might need a bit of good fortune to score against this Coleraine lineup who we reckon should get a goal themselves and run out victorious.

Therefore, we predict a very even contest with a 0-1 winning score for Coleraine after 90 minutes.

Hopefully it’s a good one.

Lucas Pereira, 10:06 16/04/2025