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Linfield vs Newry City Live Stream, Predictions
The Premiership tie at Windsor Park on Saturday sees home side Linfield ready themselves for the challenge from opponents Newry City.
Our full set of predictions, statistics and match poll for Linfield v Newry City can be seen below including the latest game odds.
📊 Form Guide
Linfield
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Linfield will play in this fixture following a 0-0 Premiership draw vs Larne.
Under three goals per match were recorded in 5 of the past 6 fixtures where Linfield have been participants. In terms of the goal attribution from that period, their opponents scored an aggregate of 4 and Linfield got themselves 6.
Newry City
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Following on from being defeated in their last game at the hands of Portadown in Premiership competition, Newry City and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.
For Newry City, goals were scored by John McGovern (45') and Brian Healy (80'). Stephen Teggart (17'), Paul McElroy (20'), Chris Rodgers (37' Own goal), Josh Archer (92') and Benny Igiehon (94') scored for Portadown.
The trend of at least one side getting a clean sheet in games involving Newry City has become evident recently. Checking on their last 6 outings shows that this has occurred 5 times. In those clashes, opposing sides have managed a goal total of 10 and Newry City have scored 5. We will have to see if that trend will end up being sustained into this next match.
↔️ Head to head
The previous league contest between the two was Premiership match day 13 on 29/10/2022 when it ended Newry City 0-2 Linfield.
The match was refereed by Evan Boyce.
ℹ️ Team News: Linfield
Ross Larkin (cancer), Robbie McDaid (Cruciate Ligament Injury) and Eetu Vertainen (Hamstring Injury) won’t be playing for Linfield gaffer David Healy.
🗞️ Team News: Newry City
Due to a completely healthy group available for selection, the Newry City boss Darren Mullen has zero fitness worries to speak of before this clash.
🔮 Prediction
It’s looking like Newry City will be up against it to find the net against a Linfield team who look likely to win well here.
We are predicting a comprehensive 3-0 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.
Peter Guest, 02:29 14/03/2023

⚽️ Team Focus:
Linfield
Formed: 1886
Stadium: Windsor Park (18,500)
Captain: Jamie Mulgrew
Chairman: Roy McGivern
Manager: David Healy
Competitions: Premiership position 3, Conference League Qualifiers (Play Off Round)
🔑 Star Man: Joel Cooper

Mostly played in the Left Wing position, Joel Cooper was born in N. Ireland. Having made his senior debut playing for Glenavon in the 2015 - 2016 season, the goalscoring Forward has struck 7 league goals in the Premiership 2022 - 2023 campaign to date in a total of 27 appearances.
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32 | 22 | 6 | 4 | 39 | 72 | WWWDW |
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31 | 19 | 6 | 6 | 20 | 63 | LWLWD |
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31 | 19 | 5 | 7 | 33 | 62 | WLWWD |
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31 | 18 | 4 | 9 | 36 | 58 | LDWLW |
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31 | 17 | 7 | 7 | 25 | 58 | WDWDD |
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31 | 17 | 6 | 8 | 24 | 57 | DWLLW |
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31 | 11 | 4 | 16 | -17 | 37 | LLWLW |
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31 | 9 | 8 | 14 | -9 | 35 | LLDWW |
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32 | 9 | 5 | 18 | -18 | 32 | LDLLL |
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31 | 7 | 2 | 22 | -27 | 23 | LLWLL |
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31 | 6 | 2 | 23 | -50 | 20 | LLWLL |
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31 | 4 | 3 | 24 | -56 | 15 | LWWLW |
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Goals scored | 1.8 |
Goals conceded | 0.7 |
Time first goal scored | 33 |
Time first goal conceded | 46 |
Yellow cards | 2 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 3.7 |
Biggest victory | 4-0 |
Biggest defeat | 3-0 |
Goals scored | 0.8 |
Goals conceded | 2 |
Time first goal scored | 34 |
Time first goal conceded | 33 |
Yellow cards | 1.9 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 4.1 |
Biggest victory | 5-1 |
Biggest defeat | 4-0 |
Eetu Vertainen | 17 |
Joel Cooper | 11 |
Robbie McDaid | 6 |
Chris McKee | 5 |
Chris Shields | 5 |
Daniel Hughes | 5 |
John McGovern | 5 |
James Teelan | 5 |
Declan Carville | 2 |
Lorcan Forde | 2 |
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