📏 Form Guide

Ballymena United

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Ballymena United will be hoping to bounce back here after the 1-0 Premiership defeat in their last game at the hands of Coleraine.

Will Patching (28') was the scorer for Coleraine.

It’s been seldom in recent times that Ballymena United have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that Ballymena United have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, giving up 9 goals on the way. Nonetheless, we will just have to wait and see if the trend shall be maintained in this next game.

Going into this contest, Ballymena United are undefeated in their previous 4 league matches at home.

Glenavon

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Glenavon will come into the meeting following on from a 1-3 Premiership win with the eclipse of Bangor in their last game.

For Glenavon, the goals were scored by Conor Falls (28', 84') and Barney McKeown (66'). Ben Arthurs (86') scored for Bangor.

In a total of 5 of the previous 6 games involving Glenavon, at least three goals have been hit. The average number of goals per match in that spell is 3, with the number of goals averaged by Glenavon being 1.17.

🤜🤛 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels dating back to 30/08/2024, neither club has come out on top overall with Ballymena United winning 3 of those games, Glenavon 3 and 0 being drawn in regulation time.

A combined total of 15 goals were produced between them in this period, with 7 for Sky Blues and 8 belonging to The Lurgan Blues. That is an average goals per game value of 2.5.

The previous league encounter featuring these clubs was Premiership match day 18 on 29/11/2025 which ended up with the score at Glenavon 3-1 Ballymena United.

The match was refereed by Shane McGonigle.

ℹ️ Team News: Ballymena United

Almost everyone can be considered, as there’s just one fitness concern for the Ballymena United manager Oran Kearney to be concerned about from an otherwise fully-primed group. Donal Rocks (Knock) is out of contention.

📰 Team News: Glenavon

Glenavon manager Michael O'Connor has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Oran O'Kane (Knock) and Ben Wilson (Knock) are not able to play.

🧠 Prediction

In this game, Glenavon have it in them to break down this Ballymena United outfit, although it probably shouldn’t be enough to prevent defeat.

We’re predicting a close game with a 2-1 victory for Ballymena United when the full-time whistle blows. Let’s wait and see how it plays out.

Lucas Pereira, 15:03 24/02/2026