📏 Form Guide

Glentoran

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Glentoran will be hoping to return to winning ways here after a 1-0 Premiership defeat last time out to Linfield.

Matthew Fitzpatrick (60') was the scorer for Linfield.

Their most recent results really do illustrate the point that much solidity has been shown by the Glentoran defence. Glentoran have given the opposition little, resulting in the number of goals that have gone in at their end during their last 6 outings standing at 4. That pattern won’t necessarily be sustained into this match, though.

Going into this contest, Glentoran are unbeaten in the league by Crusaders in their last 3 games.

Crusaders

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Following on from a losing effort in their last game against Cliftonville in Premiership competition, Crusaders and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

For Crusaders, the goals were scored by Adam Brooks (42') and Scot Rough (58'). Brian Healy (4'), Luke Conlan (9'), Micheál Glynn (48') and Harry Wilson (78') scored for Cliftonville.

A run of fairly underwhelming efforts from the Crusaders defensive players has resulted in a total of 19 goals being leaked by them in just their past six performances. They will certainly want to improve on this unwelcome area of their play.

Their prior results show that Crusaders:

• haven't been beaten by Glentoran in away games against them for the last 2 league matches.
• have not won away from home in their last 3 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their past head-to-head meetings dating back to 09/08/2024 shows that Glentoran have won 4 of them & Crusaders 2, with the number of drawn results standing at 0.

17 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 12 from The Glens and 5 coming from The Hatchetmen. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.83.

The last league game featuring the two was Premiership match day 13 on 25/10/2025 which ended up with the score at Crusaders 2-3 Glentoran.

The match was refereed by Tim Marshall.

✨ Prediction

For this match, we think that Glentoran are likely to dominate possession and create several successful chances.

At the other end, Crusaders will not find it easy finding the net themselves although we do see them scoring.

We’re tipping a controlled 3-1 winning score for Glentoran at full-time.

Lucas Pereira, 04:04 24/02/2026