Ballymena United vs Carrick Rangers betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the Premiership match on November 30th, 2024

Ballymena United and Carrick Rangers will meet each other in a football match counting for Premiership on November 30th, 2024, Saturday at 15:00h (UTC), in Northern Ireland, check the Ballymena United vs Carrick Rangers betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Ballymena United vs Carrick Rangers will occur

The game takes place in the small The Showgrounds stadium, in the city of Ballymena, with a capacity for 5200 spectators, who hope to help the team to surprise in this match.

Where to follow the live game

At Betarena, you can find everything about the match live, including statistics, events, odds, and everything else that can help with your sports betting.

Introduction to the Ballymena United vs Carrick Rangers 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 2.53 goals per match played.

Ballymena United last match

Ballymena United comes from a win recorded in the last match played. The opponent was Cliftonville, in a match valid for Premiership, and the two teams finished the match with a score of 0-1.

A win for the underdog team was not in the plans, as evidenced by the fact that their win had odds of 5.75. That's why we experienced a surprise result!

Carrick Rangers 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, Carrick Rangers faced the Dungannon Swifts team, and the score ended with a 0-1 for their rivals.

A fairly even game was expected, with odds for the home defeat at 2.50.

Ballymena United vs Carrick Rangers h2h

These two clubs faced each other for the last time in a match of the 2024/2025 Premiership season. The match, played on 17-09-2024, recorded the 1-4 win for Ballymena United.

The Ballymena United team in the last five matches has achieved more regular results, with a total of 2 wins, compared to the Carrick Rangers team, which won only 1 game.

Ballymena United

Premiership leaderboard now

The Ballymena United team with 27 points currently occupies the 6th place of the leaderboard, being in the qualifying place for the Championship Round, with a campaign of 9 wins, 0 draws and 8 losses.

In the 19th round, the team has the same score compared to Glentoran which is just above, in 5th place.

Ballymena United analysis

After 18 matches, Ballymena United shows a positive goal difference: in fact, the team has scored 21 goals and conceded 20.

Ballymena United seems to be facing a problem in scoring goals, as they have recorded a low number of goals and a high number of matches where they failed to score. This could be an indication that they are struggling to generate good scoring opportunities and need to improve their attacking performance.

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 2.82 shots on target per game, with an average of 1.24 goals. In other words, more than 40% of shots on goal will end up in the back of the net.

The average ball possession of Ballymena United in this league is 45.86%, which means that the team has a rather wait-and-see attitude and does not often take over the ball of the game. Therefore, for the match against Carrick Rangers they should do something to reverse the trend and try to impose their game on their opponents if they want the win.

Ballymena United has proven to be a formidable attacking force, with 1214 attacks resulting in 21 goals. Carrick Rangers, on the other hand, has only scored 18 times with 561 attacks.

Best goalscorer from Ballymena United

In the individual highlights of the team in the offensive sector, the focus falls on Ben Kennedy so far in the competition. With 11 goals with his signature, the Midfielder has helped his team Ballymena United to achieve victorious results 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.

Carrick Rangers

Premiership leaderboard now

With 15 points won, Carrick Rangers is in 10th place on the leaderboard, which leaves the team in the Relegation Round zone. The team's campaign so far is 4 wins against 10 losses, plus 3 draws.

Which means that the team has the same score, in the 19th round, with the Glenavon team in hot pursuit at 11th place.

Carrick Rangers analysis

We have reached matchday 18 in Premiership and at the moment Carrick Rangers has made 18 goals and conceded 29.

Best goalscorer from Carrick Rangers

In the individual highlights of the team in the offensive sector, the focus falls on Paul Heatley so far in the competition. With 5 goals with his signature, the Attacker has helped his team Carrick Rangers to achieve victorious results this season.

For bettors some entries may be relevant 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 Ballymena United is Ben Kennedy, who has already scored 11 goals in the competition. On the other hand, the leading scorer of Carrick Rangers is Paul Heatley, he has scored in 5 opportunities.

75-90 minutes into the game is where most goals occur, a good time to bet if one is following the live game.

Since Carrick Rangers has an average of 0.63 goals per game when playing away from home, and considering that they often do not concede goals away from home, the market with less than 2.5 goals it can also be an excellent alternative to consider.

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

Corners Top Betting Tips

Something to explore in order to get favorable betting results is noting the average of 2.14 corners per game which one can get by combining the number of corners of both teams.

Cards Top Betting Tips

Highly disciplined, the teams have an average of only 3.89 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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