Glenavon vs Carrick Rangers Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Glenavon

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Glenavon will be hoping to bounce back here following a 2-0 Premiership defeat in their last game at the hands of Dungannon Swifts.

Tomas Galvin (23') and Thomas Maguire (75') scored for Dungannon Swifts.

It has not been often in recent times that Glenavon have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The facts show that Glenavon have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 games, letting in 16 goals on the way.

Coming into this contest, Glenavon have not been beaten in the league by Carrick Rangers in their previous 10 matches. A decent run, indeed.

Carrick Rangers

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Carrick Rangers will go into this clash after a 2-1 Premiership win with the defeat of Loughgall in their most recent outing.

The only scorer from Carrick Rangers was Cameron Stewart (17', 20'). Ryan Waide (33') scored for Loughgall.

In their last half-dozen outings, Carrick Rangers have helped themselves to a total of 13 goals. Carrick Rangers have also scored in every single one of those games. During that period, their defenders have had 9 goals scored by their opponents. Having said that, time will tell if that pattern will be replicated in this next game.

Going into this encounter, Carrick Rangers have left without a victory over Glenavon in away games against them for the last 4 matches in the league. Not good.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A study of their past head to head results stretching back to 22/10/2022 tells us that these fixtures have been pretty painful for Carrick Rangers. They have not managed to get themselves any victories at all whereas Glenavon have managed to find a way, getting wins in 83% of those ties.

21 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 15 of them from The Lurgan Blues and 6 for The Gers. That’s an average goals per game of 3.5.

The previous league fixture between these sides was Premiership match day 25 on 13/01/2024 which ended up with the score at Carrick Rangers 0-2 Glenavon.

The referee was Tim Marshall.

📰 Team News: Glenavon

There aren’t many selection issues, with just the lone fitness concern for the Glenavon boss Stephen McDonnell to be concerned about from an otherwise fully-primed group. Isaac Baird (Cruciate ligament tear) is sidelined. Peter Campbell will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.

📋 Team News: Carrick Rangers

Due to a mostly healthy group of players, there is only the lone fitness problem for the Carrick Rangers manager Stuart King to contend with. Reece Glendinning (Ankle surgery) misses out for this game.

🧠 Prediction

Carrick Rangers and Glenavon could both find themselves scoring on more than one occasion in a potential goal-fest with little between the two teams.

It’s looking like it could well end up as a draw but we do expect to see goals at each end. We therefore think that it’s going to be a highly competitive game with a 2-2 at the end of this game.

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Andre Moura, 16:10 23/04/2024