About Match
4 points and 2 places separate them: Larne 3rd with 16, Cliftonville 5th with 12. Scoring rates set the scale: Larne 2 scored and 0.5 conceded per game, Cliftonville 1.5 and 1.25, with the league averaging 1.34. If Larne win, their total rises to 19 and up to 2nd, assuming the rest of the results stand.
Larne have won five straight. The last-five ledger: Larne 15/15, Cliftonville 6/15.
The head-to-head ledger counts 14 games: 7 Larne wins, 3 for Cliftonville, 4 draws, at 2.5 goals per meeting. Home advantage has meant little here: 36% of the meetings went to the host. Only 29% of the meetings produced more than two goals. 1.4 goals per game in the last five meetings marks a drop from the historical 2.5.
The venue is Inver Park in Larne, with room for 6,000 spectators.