📊 Form Guide

Cliftonville

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Cliftonville will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 5-2 Premiership success vs Crusaders.

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

It’s been all too rare in recent games that Cliftonville haven’t conceded. It will be a concern for them that Cliftonville have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, letting in 13 goals in the process.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Cliftonville:

• haven't been beaten in the league by Glentoran in their last 2 games.
• have not been beaten in their last 2 home league matches.

Glentoran

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Following on from tasting defeat last time out to Linfield in Premiership competition, Glentoran and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

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

A succession of effective performances from the Glentoran defensive unit has seen the number of goals they’ve conceded standing at 3 from their last 6 outings combined. Over that same period of time, the number of goals that they have scored themselves is 15. That pattern might not be carried forward into this next game, though.

Ahead of this clash, Glentoran are undefeated in their previous 5 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their past head to head clashes going back to 20/04/2024 tells us that Cliftonville have won 3 of these & Glentoran 2, with the number of drawn matches being 1.

A total of 14 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 9 of them from The Reds and 5 netted by The Glens. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.33.

The previous league encounter featuring these sides was Premiership match day 19 on 06/12/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Glentoran 2-2 Cliftonville.

The match was refereed by Ben McMaster.

📰 Team News: Cliftonville

There aren’t many personnel worries, with just one fitness concern for the Cliftonville gaffer Jim Magilton to be concerned about thanks to an otherwise robust group of players. PJ Morrison (Knock) is out of contention.

⚡ Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Cliftonville will have a tough ask to find the net against this Glentoran side who we think might emerge victorious.

Our tip is therefore for a 0-1 advantage for Glentoran when the full-time whistle blows.

Looking forward to watching this one unfold.

Victor Martins, 04:04 24/02/2026