About Match
16 points for Larne (3rd), 10 for Carrick Rangers (8th): a 6-point gap. Against a league average of 1.34 goals per team per game, Larne run at 2 scored and 0.5 conceded, Carrick Rangers at 1.38 and 1.63. Three points here take Larne to 19 and up to 2nd, assuming other results stand.
Five consecutive wins precede this game for Larne. The five-game form split reads 15/15 points for Larne against 4/15 for Carrick Rangers.
The head-to-head ledger counts 13 games: 9 Larne wins, 2 for Carrick Rangers, 2 draws, at 3.15 goals per meeting. Whoever hosts gains little here: home teams have taken just 38% of the wins in this fixture. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 62% of the meetings, and both sides scored in 62%.
Inver Park in Larne stages the fixture, a ground that holds 6,000.