Glentoran will be wanting a better result here following the 2-1 Premiership defeat in their last game at the hands of Coleraine.
The only scorer from Glentoran was Patrick McClean (77\'). Matthew Shevlin (55\', 70\') scored for Coleraine.
Three or more goals per game were seen in 5 of the last 6 fixtures where Glentoran have participated. Their opponents scored 8 times in this period whereas Glentoran managed a tally of 9.
Larne go into this meeting following on from a 8-1 Premiership win to defeat Cliftonville in their previous outing.
For Larne, the goals were scored by Aaron Donnelly (19\'), Andy Ryan (40\', 45\', 54\', 74\') and Leroy Millar (72\'). Ben Wilson (60\') was the scorer for Cliftonville.
Demonstrating their penchant for productive matches, the back of the net has been hit 21 times in the prior 6 games in which Larne have played, yielding a mean average of 3.5 goals per fixture. Their opponents have managed 5 of those goals. Previous results aside, we will just have to wait and see if that trend might be replicated in this upcoming match or not.
Their prior results show that Larne:
remain undefeated by Glentoran when having played them away from home in the previous 2 matches in the league.
haven\'t been defeated in their previous 12 away league matches. What a good run they have put together.
Head to head
A glance at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 28/10/2022 shows us that Glentoran have won 1 of these and Larne 5, with the number of drawn games standing at 0.
In all, 16 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 6 for The Glens and 10 belonging to Larne. That is an average goals per game value of 2.67.
The last league game between the two was Premiership match day 30 on 23/02/2024 and the score finished Larne 3-0 Glentoran.
The match was refereed by Tony Clarke.
Team News: Glentoran
The Glentoran manager Declan Devine has a full complement, with no fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this match thanks to a fully injury-free group to pick from.
Team News: Larne
Larne boss Tiernan Lynch has to currently contend with reduced team options. Ali Omar (surgery), Levi Ives (Knee injury) and Shaun Want (Muscle tear) miss out here.
Prediction
We’ve got the feeling that Glentoran might need a bit of good fortune to hit the back of the net against this Larne side who should be able to grind out a win.
Therefore, we predict a good tussle with a 0-1 victory for Larne at the end of this one. Let’s see how it plays out.
