📏 Form Guide

Glentoran

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Glentoran will be looking for another win after the 1-0 Premiership victory against Ballymena United.

The only scorer from Glentoran was Nathaniel Ferris (55').

Declan Devine's Glentoran have hit the back of the net 6 times in their last six outings. Conversely, the number of goals that they have conceded in that same time is 7.

Their prior results show that Glentoran:

• haven't been beaten in the league by Glenavon in their previous 5 matches.
• have not been beaten in their last 4 home league matches.

Glenavon

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Since being defeated in their last game at the hands of Coleraine in Premiership competition, Glenavon and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

Declan McManus (81') scored for Coleraine.

Looking at their form, and Glenavon have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 7 goals overall. At the back, Glenavon just haven’t been too solid at all. Such a pattern might not be sustained into this match, though.

Their past results show that Glenavon:

• have not won against Glentoran when they've played them away from home in the last 2 matches in the league.
• have not been beaten in their last 4 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

A review of past results between these clubs stretching back to 10/05/2023 shows that these encounters have been miserable for Glenavon. They’ve not managed to get themselves any wins whatsoever whereas Glentoran have simply been better than them, getting wins in 67 per cent of those ties.

A total of 13 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 12 of them from The Glens and 1 belonging to The Lurgan Blues. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.17.

The last league clash between these sides was Premiership match day 16 on 09/11/2024 when it finished Glenavon 0-3 Glentoran.

The referee was Shane Andrews.

📰 Team News: Glentoran

There is just a single fitness concern for the Glentoran manager Declan Devine to be concerned about from an otherwise fully-primed squad. Josh Kelly (Cruciate ligament injury) is out of contention.

ℹ️ Team News: Glenavon

Due to a mostly healthy group, there is only the sole fitness issue for the Glenavon manager Paddy McLaughlin to contend with. Mark Haughey (Knock) won’t be playing here.

💡 Prediction

Glentoran will probably see a lot of the ball and convert quite a few goal-scoring opportunities.

In contrast, Glenavon could well struggle to get a goal of their own although we do think that they will probably end up managing to get on the scoresheet here.

Our tip is for a 3-1 victory for Glentoran when all’s said and done.

Lucas Pereira, 19:04 12/03/2025