📊 Form Guide

Coleraine

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Coleraine will play in this match following on from a 2-2 Premiership drawn game vs Cliftonville.

The only scorer from Coleraine was Matthew Shevlin (63'). Paddy Burns (23'), Rory Hale (28') and David Odumosu (88' Own goal) scored for Cliftonville.

Their latest results really do illustrate the point that it has been a great time for the Coleraine backline. Coleraine have given the opposition little, resulting in the tally of goals that have gone in at their end during their last 6 games standing at 4.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Coleraine:

• have not beaten Glentoran in their previous 2 league matches.
• are undefeated in their last 5 league matches at home.
• are without a win at home for the past 3 matches in the league.

Glentoran

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In their previous fixture, Glentoran drew 0-0 in the Premiership tie with Linfield.

The trend of at least one team not managing to score in games involving Glentoran has become evident in recent matches. Examining their last six games reveals that it’s occurred 5 times. In those clashes, their opponents have managed a goal tally of 6 while Glentoran have scored 8. We will just have to see if that trend can be sustained in this game.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Glentoran:

• have not won against Coleraine in games played away from home for the previous 4 matches in the league. Not the best of away records.
• are undefeated by Coleraine in games played away from home for the previous 3 matches in the league.
• are undefeated in their last 2 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their most recent head-to-head meetings stretching back to 11/11/2022 shows that Coleraine have won 1 of them & Glentoran 2, with the number of drawn results being 3.

A sum of 16 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 4 of them from The Bannsiders and 12 for The Glens. That’s an average goals per game of 2.67.

The last league game between these sides was Premiership match day 25 on 13/01/2024 and the score finished Glentoran 6-0 Coleraine.

The match was refereed by Jamie Robinson.

🗞️ Team News: Coleraine

Rodney Brown (Knock) and Adam Mullan (Fitness) won’t be able to feature for Coleraine gaffer Oran Kearney. Stephen Lowry will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.

📰 Team News: Glentoran

Thanks to a mainly full-strength group, there’s only the sole fitness problem for the Glentoran manager Declan Devine to be concerned about. Daire O'Connor (Knock) misses out for this game.

🔮 Prediction

Coleraine will really need to work well to register a score against this Glentoran outfit who should win and very possibly keep a clean sheet.

That’s why we have predicted a very even contest with a 0-1 winning score for Glentoran when the full-time whistle blows.

A close call.

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Renata Leite, 13:05 13/04/2024