Ballymena United won’t want a repeat of their last result here after the 2-1 Premiership loss in their previous game against Carrick Rangers.
Ben Tilney (66\') scored for Carrick Rangers.
Matches with Ballymena United have proved to be exciting encounters of late with a lot of goalmouth action being the norm. Over their past 6 games, a total of 22 goals have gone in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.67 goals per game) with 6 of those coming from Ballymena United.
Going into this contest, Ballymena United haven’t won at home in the past 5 league games. Things will have to change soon.
Since tasting defeat last time out to Loughgall in Premiership action, Glenavon and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.
Caolan Loughran (82\' Own goal) was the scorer for Loughgall.
Proving their fondness for eventful matches, goals have been seen as many as 23 times in the prior 6 games in which Glenavon have taken to the pitch, giving an average of 3.83 goals each fixture. Opposing teams have managed 13 of this grand total. That pattern isn’t assured to be continued here, of course.
Their prior results show that Glenavon:
remain unbeaten by Ballymena United when having played them away from home in the previous 5 league games. An impressive run.
have not won away from home in their last 5 league matches.
Head to head
Looking over their prior head to head clashes stretching back to 28/10/2022 shows us that Ballymena United have won 1 of them & Glenavon 5, with the tally of draws standing at 0.
A combined total of 14 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 5 of them for Sky Blues and 9 being from The Lurgan Blues. The average goals per game has been 2.33.
The last league encounter between these clubs was Premiership match day 24 on 30/12/2023 and the score finished Glenavon 0-1 Ballymena United.
The referee was Declan Hassan.
Team News: Ballymena United
It’s a low absenteeism rate, with just a single fitness concern for the Ballymena United manager Jim Ervin to be concerned about thanks to an otherwise robust squad. Colin Coates (Knee surgery) is out of contention.
Team News: Glenavon
Due to a mostly available squad, there is just the lone fitness worry for the Glenavon manager Stephen McDonnell to be concerned about. Isaac Baird (Cruciate ligament tear) misses out for this game. Peter Campbell will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.
Prediction
We’re envisaging that Ballymena United will need things to go their way to break down this Glenavon outfit who we reckon will get the win and a maybe even keep a clean sheet as well.
We’re therefore seeing a 0-1 victory for Glenavon at the end of this one. Looking forward to this.
