Glentoran vs Ballymena United betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the Premiership match on December 07th, 2024

Glentoran will be playing against Ballymena United in a Premiership football match scheduled to take place on Saturday, December 07th, 2024, at 15:00h (UTC), in Northern Ireland, check the Glentoran vs Ballymena United betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Glentoran vs Ballymena United will occur

The game is set to be played in the small The Oval stadium, in the city of Belfast, with a capacity for 15000 spectators, who hope to help the team to surprise in this match.

Where to follow the live game

Take the opportunity to check out the match live in Betarena, bringing much information to your bets, including statistics, events and odds.

Introduction to the Glentoran vs Ballymena United betting tip 2024/2025

The Premiership has had fewer goals than the previous season. Last season the tournament had an average of 3.11 goals scored per match, while now the competition has an average of 2.59 goals per match played.

Glentoran last match

Glentoran arrives from a victory in the last match they played. The contest against Linfield, valid for the Irish League Cup, ended with a score of 0-1 in favor of the team.

This positive result confirmed their favoritism before the game, which had odds of .

Ballymena United last match

On the other hand, the visiting team arrives at this match after a defeat in the previous event. In a dispute valid for Premiership, Ballymena United faced the Carrick Rangers team, and the score ended with a 1-2 for their rivals.

A defeat of the home team had odds of 3.60, which makes it clear that a close match was expected.

Glentoran vs Ballymena United h2h

The previous meeting between these two teams was in the 2024/2025 season of the Premiership. The meeting took place on 14-09-2024 and ended with a 1-0 win for Ballymena United.

The last match between these two clubs was a seesaw battle to the end.

The Glentoran team in the last five matches has achieved more regular results, with a total of 3 wins, compared to the Ballymena United team, which won only 2 games.

Glentoran

Premiership leaderboard now

The Glentoran team with 28 points currently occupies the 5th place of the leaderboard, being in the qualifying place for the Championship Round, with a campaign of 8 wins, 4 draws and 7 losses.

The team has no advantage against the Portadown team who holds the 4th place in the 20th round.

Glentoran analysis

At the end of round 19 Glentoran has a good ratio of goals made to goals conceded, with 21 goals to its credit against 18 conceded.

The performances of Glentoran in recent matches suggest that they are having difficulty scoring goals, with a low number of goals and a high number of matches where they failed to score. This indicates that their attacking play is not creating enough quality chances and needs improvement.

Teams typically have some control over the opponents if they had ball possession above 50%. Thus, the Glentoran team usually tries for an average ball possession of 55.14% to control the game.

Best goalscorer from Glentoran

In this season, the individual highlight is Frankie Hvid that has dominated the offensive side. The Defender has already scored 3 times this season, becoming crucial in the positive results that Glentoran achieved in several matches.

Ballymena United

Premiership leaderboard now

With 27 points won, Ballymena United is in 7th place on the leaderboard, which leaves the team in the Relegation Round zone. The team's campaign so far is 9 wins against 9 losses, plus 0 draws.

In the 20th round, the team has the same number of points when compared to Crusaders team who occupies position 6.

Ballymena United analysis

Currently, in the Premiership, Ballymena United sums 22 goals for and a total of 22 goals against, after 19 rounds played.

If the average number of shots on target by Ballymena United in the league is not the best, the team's accuracy, on the other hand, is excellent! There are only 2.72 shots on target per game, with an average of 1.22 goals. In other words, more than 40% of shots on goal will end up in the back of the net.

Best goalscorer from Ballymena United

If we want to highlight a player in the team's offensive sector until this competition stage, we have to name Ben Kennedy. Ballymena United owes some of their triumphs to the Midfielder who scored 11 goals in this season.

It is important to highlight that more than 50% of the goals scored by this player were from the penalty spot. More precisely, 6 of the 11 goals scored have this characteristic.

For punters some entries may be interesting for this game, namely:

Goals Top Betting Tips

It can also be interesting to bet on who will score in this match. The featured player of Glentoran is Frankie Hvid, who has already scored 3 goals in the competition. On the other hand, the leading scorer of Ballymena United is Ben Kennedy, he has scored in 11 opportunities.

For those following the live game, it has been known that between 75-90 minutes is a period where most goals are scored making this a good time to bet.

Taking into consideration that Ballymena United scores an average of 1.11 goals per match when playing away, we should consider the under 2.5 betting market, especially because this team usually does not concede goals when playing out of their stadium.

Currently, at Bet365, the odds for the Total Goals Under 2.5 market are quoted at 1.85.

Corners Top Betting Tips

Good betting results could be obtained if one notes that there is an average of 3.81 corners per game.

Cards Top Betting Tips

Highly disciplined, the teams have an average of only 4.21 yellow cards per match, when added together. In other words, the 'Under 4.5 cards' option looks like a great alternative for bettors.

This is a match with several good betting entries to have some return on sports betting.

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