📏 Form Guide

Carrick Rangers

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Carrick Rangers will be hoping to bounce back here following a 2-1 Premiership loss in their previous game against Ballymena United.

The only scorer from Carrick Rangers was Danny Gibson (76'). Igor Rutkowski (64', 69') was the scorer for Ballymena United.

Carrick Rangers have not been the best at stopping their opponents of late, although they have also done enough to convert their own chances into goals. Over their last 6 matches, Carrick Rangers have been punished defensively in 6 of them in addition to scoring in 5 of those games. That kind of pattern won’t necessarily be carried forward into this game, though.

A look at their previous results shows us that Carrick Rangers:

• haven't beaten Linfield in their previous 10 league games.
• are undefeated in their previous 6 league matches at home.
• are without a win at home for the past 2 league matches.

Linfield

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Linfield will come into the match following on from a 3-1 Premiership win versus Portadown in their last fixture.

For Linfield, goals were scored by Kyle McClean (69') and Adam Frizzell (86'). Baris Altintop (2' Own goal) and Eamon Fyfe (23') scored for Portadown.

David Healy's Linfield have converted a total of 12 times throughout their most recent six matches. The overall goals that have been scored against them during that period equals 5.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Linfield:

• have not been beaten by Carrick Rangers when having played them away from home in the previous 4 matches in the league. A very decent away record against them.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 2 league games.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their past head to head meetings stretching back to 02/04/2024 reveals that these fixtures have been disappointments for Carrick Rangers. They’ve not been able to register any victories at all whereas Linfield have been dominant against them, beating them in 83% of those games played.

In all, 17 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 4 of them for The Gers and 13 created by The Blues. That’s an average goals per game of 2.83.

The last league game featuring the two was Premiership match day 3 on 13/01/2026 which finished with the scoreline of Carrick Rangers 0-0 Linfield.

The referee was Tim Marshall.

📋 Team News: Carrick Rangers

Ethan Boyle (Knee surgery) and Cameron Stewart (surgery) will be missing for Carrick Rangers manager Stephen Baxter.

🗞️ Team News: Linfield

Linfield boss David Healy has some current player fitness concerns. Chris Shields (Knee injury) and Kieran Offord (Ankle injury) will not be playing here.

✨ Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Carrick Rangers might have a difficult job to hit the back of the net against this Linfield team who we think will likely get the vital goal that wins it.

We’re therefore predicting a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 0-1 winning margin for Linfield when all is said and done.

We’re expecting it to be that close.

Renata Leite, 22:06 19/03/2026