📊 Form Guide

Ballymena United

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Ballymena United head into this fixture coming off the back of a 2-2 Premiership stalemate versus Cliftonville.

The only name on the scoresheet from Ballymena United was Igor Rutkowski (51'). Sean Robertson (2'), Brian Healy (34') and Joe Toole (71' Own goal) scored for Cliftonville.

It’s been seldom in recent games where Ballymena United have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Ballymena United have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 9 goals along the way.

Coming into this fixture, Ballymena United haven't beaten Glenavon in their last 2 league matches.

Glenavon

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Previously, Glenavon drew 1-1 in the Premiership match with Portadown.

The only player to score from Glenavon was Peter Campbell (84'). Josh Ukek (9') was the scorer for Portadown.

In as many as 5 out of the previous 6 games involving Glenavon, a minimum of three goals have gone in. The overall average goals scored per match during that time is 3, with the number of goals averaged by Glenavon working out to 1.83. Having said that, we’ll just have to find out if that trend shall be maintained here in this game or not.

Their past results show that Glenavon:

• have not been beaten by Ballymena United when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 league matches.
• have not been beaten in their last 3 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 12/10/2024 shows that Ballymena United have won 2 of these and Glenavon 3, with the tally of drawn matches being 1.

A combined sum of 15 goals were scored between them in this period, with 6 for Sky Blues and 9 created by The Lurgan Blues. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.5.

The last league match featuring these sides was Premiership match day 24 on 24/02/2026 when it finished Ballymena United 2-2 Glenavon.

The match was refereed by Jamie Robinson.

🗞️ Team News: Glenavon

From a largely full-strength group, there’s only the lone fitness worry for the Glenavon gaffer Michael O'Connor to be concerned about. Ben Wilson (Knock) won’t be in action.

💭 Prediction

We’re of the view that Ballymena United certainly have the ability to create the chances to score more than once when they line up against Glenavon, who might well find it a difficult task to score.

Accordingly, we see a controlled 2-0 winning score for Ballymena United by the time that the referee blows the final whistle.

Peter Guest, 18:09 07/04/2026