📏 Form Guide

Cliftonville

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Cliftonville will be hoping to bounce back here after a 3-0 Premiership loss in their previous game against 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 come into the clash following on from a 2-1 Premiership win with the downing of Carrick Rangers in their most recent fixture.

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

Checking on their past head to head meetings stretching back to 21/09/2024 shows that Cliftonville have won 2 of these games & Ballymena United 3, with the number of drawn matches standing at 1.

A combined sum of 21 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 12 for The Reds and 9 netted by Sky Blues. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.5.

The previous league contest between the two was Premiership match day 16 on 13/01/2026 when the final score was 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, 19:04 21/03/2026