📏 Form Guide

Cliftonville

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Cliftonville will be looking for an improved result here following the 3-0 Premiership defeat last time out to Glentoran.

Daniel Larmour (25') and Patrick Hoban (52', 61') scored for Glentoran.

Their latest results reveal that not much more can be done by the Cliftonville rearguard. Cliftonville have been stingy, resulting in the total number of goals that have gone past their goalkeeper during their past six outings standing at 1.

Going into this one, Cliftonville have not lost a league tie with Ballymena United in their last 3 games.

Ballymena United

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Ballymena United will go into this match following on from a 2-1 Premiership win as they beat Carrick Rangers in their last match.

The only player to score from Ballymena United was Igor Rutkowski (64', 69'). Danny Gibson (76') scored for Carrick Rangers.

The stats tell the story, and Ballymena United have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 7 goals in total. In defence, Ballymena United just haven’t been too solid at all. We will have to find out whether or not that trend will end up being sustained into this next match.

Their prior results show that Ballymena United:

• have not emerged victorious against Cliftonville in games played away from home for the previous 2 league games.
• are without a win away from home in their last 7 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their most recent head-to-head meetings dating back to 21/09/2024 shows that Cliftonville have won 2 of them and Ballymena United 3, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 1.

A combined total of 21 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 12 of them for The Reds and 9 belonging to Sky Blues. The average goals per game has been 3.5.

The previous league meeting featuring the two was Premiership match day 16 on 13/01/2026 when it finished Ballymena United 2-2 Cliftonville.

The match was refereed by Chris Morrison.

🔮 Prediction

Our assessment is that Ballymena United should get enough chances to get a goal against this Cliftonville lineup, although that realistically won’t be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We can see a very close game with a 2-1 victory for Cliftonville at the end of this one. There looks to be little in this one.

Victor Martins, 22:06 19/03/2026