📊 Form Guide

Ballymena United

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Ballymena United will be looking to improve on their last outing here after a 1-0 Premiership loss in their previous game against Coleraine.

Will Patching (28') scored 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 go into this clash following a 1-3 Premiership win in the defeat of Bangor in their most recent outing.

For Glenavon, 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 meetings stretching back to 30/08/2024, it’s been all-even between these two clubs with Ballymena United winning 3 of those games, Glenavon 3 and 0 being draws in regulation time.

In all, 15 goals were scored between them in this period, with 7 for Sky Blues and 8 coming from The Lurgan Blues. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.5.

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

The referee was Shane McGonigle.

🗞️ Team News: Ballymena United

Nearly everyone is up for selection, with just the lone fitness concern for the Ballymena United manager Oran Kearney to contend with thanks to an otherwise robust squad. Donal Rocks (Knock) is out of contention.

📰 Team News: Glenavon

Glenavon manager Michael O'Connor has to currently contend with reduced team options. Ben Wilson (Knock) and Oran O'Kane (Knock) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

💭 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, 04:04 24/02/2026