📏 Form Guide

Linfield

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Linfield will play in this game after a 2-2 Premiership drawn match vs Coleraine.

For Linfield, the goals were scored by Matthew Fitzpatrick (52') and Chris Shields (58'). Jamie McGonigle (44') and Matthew Shevlin (97') scored for Coleraine.

Fixtures featuring Linfield have often been entertaining ones recently with a lot of goalmouth action being the norm. Over their past six clashes alone, the sum of 22 goals have been scored for both sides combined (at an average of 3.67 goals per game) with 16 of those belonging to Linfield.

Larne

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Larne come into this encounter following a 1-2 Premiership win versus Glentoran in their last match.

For Larne, goals were scored by Andy Ryan (8') and Cian Bolger (58' Own goal). Jonathan Russell (95' Own goal) was the scorer for Glentoran.

Illustrating their bias toward action-packed matches, the back of the net has been hit 24 times in the last six games in which Larne have taken to the pitch, making it an average of 4 goals for each meeting. Opposing teams have managed 6 from this total. We will have to see if that trend can be continued on here.

Going into this one, Larne are undefeated in their previous 13 league matches away from home. An incredible run.

👥 Head to head

A look at their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 04/02/2023 shows us that Linfield have won 0 of these and Larne 2, with the tally of draws standing at 4.

A combined total of 11 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 4 for The Blues and 7 coming from Larne. That’s an average goals per game figure of 1.83.

The last league meeting featuring these clubs was Premiership match day 24 on 30/12/2023 which ended up with the score at Larne 1-1 Linfield.

The referee was Chris Morrison.

📋 Team News: Linfield

Ryan McKay (stomach problems), Euan East (Hamstring injury), Robbie McDaid (Achilles tendon rupture), Josh Archer (Knock) and Stephen Fallon (Knock) won’t be able to feature for Linfield manager David Healy.

📰 Team News: Larne

Larne boss Tiernan Lynch has not got a full squad to pick from. Levi Ives (Knee injury), Shaun Want (Muscle tear) and Ali Omar (surgery) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

🧠 Prediction

We’re of the view that Larne will need to apply a lot of pressure to score against this Linfield outfit who we think will likely just have the edge.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a good battle with a 1-0 advantage for Linfield at the end of the match.

Let’s see.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 18:02 22/04/2024