Linfield vs Cliftonville Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Linfield

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Linfield prepare for this fixture coming off the back of a 1-1 Premiership tied result vs Larne.

Leroy Millar (21' Own goal) and Andy Ryan (35') scored for Larne.

Linfield have been finding it hard to keep clean sheets recently, although they have also found ways to convert their own chances into goals. Over their last 6 matches, Linfield have seen their goal breached in 5 of them in addition to getting on the scoresheet in 5 of those games.

Analysis of their past results shows that Linfield:

• haven't been beaten in the league by Cliftonville in their previous 5 games.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 4 home league matches.
• are without a home win in the past 2 matches in the league.

Cliftonville

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Cliftonville will come into the meeting following a 2-0 Premiership win with the defeat of Glentoran in their last match.

For Cliftonville, goals were scored by Stephen Mallon (11') and Ronan Hale (58').

Indicating their bias toward eventful encounters, goals have been celebrated 22 times in the prior six games in which Cliftonville have taken to the field, giving a mean average of 3.67 goals per meeting. Opposing teams have hit 14 of those goals. It will be interesting to see if that trend can be continued on into this next match.

Pre-game facts show that Cliftonville:

• are winless against Linfield when they've played them away from home in the last 10 matches in the league. It has been a terrible run on the road.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 3 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their most recent head to head clashes going back to 10/01/2023 shows that Linfield have won 5 of them and Cliftonville 1, with the number of drawn results being 0.

An aggregate of 11 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 9 for The Blues and 2 for The Reds. That’s an average goals per game of 1.83.

The previous league fixture featuring these sides was Premiership match day 31 on 20/02/2024 when the final score was Cliftonville 0-3 Linfield.

The match was refereed by Lee Tavinder.

📋 Team News: Linfield

Robbie McDaid (Achilles tendon rupture), Josh Archer (Knock), Stephen Fallon (Knock), Jamie Mulgrew (Knock), Ryan McKay (stomach problems) and Euan East (Hamstring injury) won’t be available for Linfield gaffer David Healy.

ℹ️ Team News: Cliftonville

Thanks to a mainly full-strength squad, there is just a single fitness problem for the Cliftonville gaffer Jim Magilton to be concerned with. Ryan Curran (Groin injury) won’t be playing here.

💡 Prediction

Our feeling is that Linfield have it within them to dominate on the ball and be rewarded with decent chances.

At the other end, Cliftonville could well find it tough to find the back of the net although we do reckon that they could well end up hitting back at some stage, too.

We reckon that it will be a comfortable 3-1 margin for Linfield at the end of the 90 minutes.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 02:07 26/04/2024