Cliftonville vs Glentoran Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Cliftonville

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Cliftonville will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 2-1 Premiership loss in their previous game against Crusaders.

The only player to score from Cliftonville was Joe Gormley (51'). Jordan Forsythe (18') and Stewart Nixon (66') scored for Crusaders.

Fixtures with Cliftonville have usually been exciting encounters of late with a lot of goalmouth action being the norm. Over their past half dozen clashes, the sum total of 25 goals have been scored for both sides combined (at an average of 4.17 goals per game) with 9 of those belonging to Cliftonville. We shall soon see whether or not that trend will be sustained in this game.

Looking at their past form shows that Cliftonville:

• are unbeaten in the league by Glentoran in their last 2 matches.
• have left without a victory over Glentoran in their last 4 matches in the league.
• have not won at home in their last 2 matches in the league.

Glentoran

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After tasting defeat last time out to Larne in Premiership action, Glentoran and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

The only player to score from Glentoran was Jonathan Russell (95' Own goal). Andy Ryan (8') and Cian Bolger (58' Own goal) scored for Larne.

In as many as 5 out of the previous 6 games involving Glentoran, three or more goals have gone in. The average number of goals per match in that spell is 2.83, with the average number of goals for Glentoran equalling 1.67.

Coming into this contest, Glentoran are winless against Cliftonville when they've played them away from home in the last 3 league matches.

👥 Head to head

A review of their past head to head clashes dating back to 25/02/2023 shows us that Cliftonville have won 1 of these games and Glentoran 3, with the number of drawn games standing at 2.

A combined total of 17 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 6 from The Reds and 11 for The Glens. That is an average goals per game value of 2.83.

The previous league clash between these clubs was Premiership match day 24 on 06/02/2024 when it ended Glentoran 2-2 Cliftonville.

The match was refereed by Ben McMaster.

🗞️ Team News: Cliftonville

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just the lone fitness concern for the Cliftonville boss Jim Magilton to be concerned about due to a largely intact group. Ryan Curran (Groin injury) will miss out.

ℹ️ Team News: Glentoran

With a completely injury-free group ready to go, the Glentoran manager Declan Devine doesn’t have any fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this match.

⚡ Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Glentoran and Cliftonville might both not be able to do quite enough to get on the scoresheet here.

There should be little in it, and a draw looks quite a realistic result. Our tip is therefore for a very competitive game with a 0-0 score when all is said and done.

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Victor Martins, 12:07 18/04/2024