📏 Form Guide

Glenavon

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Glenavon will be looking to improve on their last outing here after a 1-2 Premiership loss in their previous game against Loughgall.

The only scorer from Glenavon was Niall Quinn (60'). Nathaniel Ferris (28') and Robbie Norton (40') scored for Loughgall.

Fixtures featuring Glenavon have often been exciting ones lately with plenty of scoring being a real hallmark. Over their past six games alone, a grand total of 22 goals have gone in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.67 goals per game) with 8 of them coming from Glenavon. That aside, it remains to be seen if the trend might continue on in this upcoming game or not.

Newry City

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Since a losing effort in their last game against Crusaders in Premiership competition, Newry City and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

Ben Kennedy (75') was the scorer for Crusaders.

Indicating their involvement in eventful encounters, goals have been seen as many as 20 times in the prior six matches in which Newry City have sent out their troops, giving a mean average of 3.33 goals per clash. Their opponents have managed 17 of those goals.

👥 Head to head

Looking over their past head to head clashes stretching back to 25/02/2023 shows that Glenavon have won 4 of these games & Newry City 2, with the tally of drawn games standing at 0.

In all, 15 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 10 of them for The Lurgan Blues and 5 coming from City. That is an average goals per game value of 2.5.

The previous league encounter between the two was Premiership match day 23 on 26/12/2023 when the final score was Newry City 0-4 Glenavon.

The referee was Steven Gregg.

📋 Team News: Glenavon

Isaac Baird (Cruciate ligament tear), Len O'Sullivan (Thigh problems) and Mark Haughey (Knock) are not available for Glenavon gaffer Stephen McDonnell. Peter Campbell cannot play in this game through suspension.

📰 Team News: Newry City

Thanks to a mainly full-strength squad, there’s only the one fitness issue for the Newry City boss Barry Gray to contend with. Ryan McGivern (Hamstring injury) won’t be in action.

💡 Prediction

It’s pretty clear that Newry City could really find it hard to find the net against a Glenavon outfit who look set to own this match if all goes as we expect it to.

We are anticipating a convincing 3-0 winning margin for Glenavon 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.

Lucas Pereira, 13:19 06/04/2024