About Match
12 points for Crusaders (6th), 10 for Glentoran (7th): a 2-point gap. Scoring rates set the scale: Crusaders 1.63 scored and 1.63 conceded per game, Glentoran 1.38 and 1.25, with the league averaging 1.34. Victory would move Crusaders to 15 points and up to 4th, with other results unchanged.
17 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Crusaders 5, draws 2, Glentoran 10, at 3.35 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 18% of those meetings. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 76% of the meetings, and both sides scored in 65%.
Seaview in Belfast stages the fixture, a ground that holds 3,383.