📏 Form Guide

Glentoran

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Glentoran will be looking for an improved result here following a 2-1 Premiership defeat in their last game at the hands of Coleraine.

The only player to score from Glentoran was Patrick McClean (77'). Matthew Shevlin (55', 70') was the scorer for Coleraine.

Three or more goals per game were seen in 5 of the last 6 fixtures where Glentoran have participated. Their opponents scored 8 times in this period whereas Glentoran managed a tally of 9.

Larne

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Larne will come into the clash after a 8-1 Premiership win with the eclipse of Cliftonville in their most recent game.

For Larne, the scorers were Lee Bonis (10'), Aaron Donnelly (19'), Andy Ryan (40', 45', 54'), Leroy Millar (72'), Joe Thomson (74') and Chris Gallagher (92'). Ben Wilson (60') was the scorer for Cliftonville.

Demonstrating their penchant for productive matches, the back of the net has been hit 21 times in the prior 6 games in which Larne have played, yielding a mean average of 3.5 goals per fixture. Their opponents have managed 5 of those goals. Previous results aside, we will just have to wait and see if that trend might be replicated in this upcoming match or not.

Their prior results show that Larne:

• remain undefeated by Glentoran when having played them away from home in the previous 2 matches in the league.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 12 away league matches. What a good run they have put together.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their past head to head meetings going back to 28/10/2022 tells us that Glentoran have won 1 of them & Larne 5, with the number of drawn games standing at 0.

An aggregate of 16 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 6 for The Glens and 10 being from Larne. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.67.

The previous league encounter between these clubs was Premiership match day 30 on 23/02/2024 and the score finished Larne 3-0 Glentoran.

The match was refereed by Tony Clarke.

📰 Team News: Glentoran

The Glentoran boss Declan Devine will be grateful not to have any fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this match with a completely injury-free squad available to select from.

📋 Team News: Larne

Larne boss Tiernan Lynch has to currently contend with reduced team options. Ali Omar (surgery), Levi Ives (Knee injury) and Shaun Want (Muscle tear) are those who can’t be considered.

⚡ Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Glentoran might need a bit of good fortune to hit the back of the net against this Larne side who should be able to grind out a win.

Therefore, we predict a good tussle with a 0-1 victory for Larne at the end of this one.

Let’s see how it plays out.

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Victor Martins, 18:04 16/04/2024