📊 Form Guide

Larne

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Larne will be looking to improve on their last outing here after a 2-3 Premiership losing effort in their last game against Carrick Rangers.

For Larne, the goalscorers were Tiarnan O'Connor (49') and Dan Bent (90'). Danny Gibson (21'), Joe Crowe (42') and Paul Heatley (45') scored for Carrick Rangers.

Larne have not been the best at stopping their opponents of late, although they’ve also done enough to hit the back of the net themselves. Analysis of their previous 6 games shows that Larne have been punished defensively in 5 of them while also getting on the scoresheet in 6 of those matches.

Their past results show that Larne:

• haven't lost in the league to Linfield in their last 3 games.
• have not registered a win against Linfield in their last 2 league games.
• haven’t won at home in the past 2 league games.

Linfield

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Linfield come into this match following a 1-0 Premiership win to defeat Glentoran in their last match.

The only name on the scoresheet from Linfield was Matthew Fitzpatrick (60').

A sequence of steadfast displays from the Linfield defence has seen the number of goals they’ve conceded amounting to 3 from their previous 6 clashes combined. During the same period, the number of goals that they have scored themselves amounts to 15. We will just have to see whether or not that trend will end up being sustained into this next match.

Their previous form shows that Linfield:

• have not registered a win against Larne when they've played them away from home in the last 2 matches in the league.
• are unbeaten in their last 4 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head meetings dating back to 14/09/2024, it’s been all-even between these two clubs with Larne winning 2 of those games, Linfield 2 and 2 being drawn in regulation time.

In all, 6 goals were produced between them in this period, with 3 for Larne and 3 coming from The Blues. That is an average goals per game value of 1.

The last league clash between these sides was Premiership match day 25 on 16/01/2026 which ended up with the score at Linfield 0-0 Larne.

The referee was Shane Andrews.

🗞️ Team News: Larne

Dan Bent (Broken arm) and Cian Bolger (Knock) are unavailable for Larne boss Gary Haveron.

🗞️ Team News: Linfield

Linfield manager David Healy has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Robbie McDaid (Achilles tendon problems) and Chris Shields (Knee injury) can’t be considered.

✨ Prediction

We believe that Linfield will manage to find the net against this Larne side, but that is unlikely to be enough to avoid defeat.

We’re expecting both teams to score in a 2-1 winning margin for Larne at the end of this one. Let’s see what eventuates.

Peter Guest, 04:04 24/02/2026