Carrick Rangers vs Ballymena United betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the Premiership match on January 18th, 2025

Carrick Rangers will be playing against Ballymena United in a Premiership football match scheduled to take place on Saturday, January 18th, 2025, at 15:00h (UTC), in Northern Ireland, check the Carrick Rangers vs Ballymena United betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Carrick Rangers vs Ballymena United will occur

The game will be played in the Belfast Loughshore Hotel Arena stadium, in the city of Carrickfergus.

Where to follow the live game

See everything about the match live on Betarena, including statistics, events and odds, and everything that can help with your sports betting.

Introduction to the Carrick Rangers 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 2.52 goals per match played.

Carrick Rangers last match

In the last match played, Carrick Rangers met Linfield, in a match valid for the Premiership. The match ended in a loss by 3-0.

The pre-match forecasts made it clear that the defeat was more than clear before the game started. The odds for them to win, of 6.50 were a sign of it.

Ballymena United last match

On the other hand, the visiting team arrives at this contest after a previous event's victory. In a dispute valid for Irish League Cup, Ballymena United faced the Glentoran team, and the score ended in favor with a 0-2.

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

Carrick Rangers vs Ballymena United h2h

It was on 30-11-2024 when these two teams last clashed on the field. That match, which ended with the 1-2 win for Carrick Rangers, was valid for the 2024/2025 season of the Premiership.

The last time these teams met, there were no easy wins!

The performance of the Ballymena United team in their five recent games to date has been relatively good, unlike the Carrick Rangers team.

Carrick Rangers

Premiership leaderboard now

Unfortunately, Carrick Rangers comes into this game with only 21 points. The team occupies 11th place in the Premiership, saddled with a negative balance of 5 wins, 11 losses, and 6 draws.

With a small disadvantage of 4 points against Glenavon who occupies position 10, the team starts the 26th round.

Carrick Rangers, although not having high aspirations, no relegation concerns, and occupying the middle of the league table in the Northern Ireland Premiership, will try to take advantage of the home factor to get a win.

Carrick Rangers analysis

Carrick Rangers have a negative goal difference, having after 25 rounds conceded 33 goals to opponents and scored 20. An average to improve.

The performances of Carrick Rangers 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.

Carrick Rangers has a ball possession average of 45% in the league. Therefore, they are not the team that proposes the game, which can be a problem for this match. Therefore, fans hope the team to have more possession in this Carrick Rangers vs Ballymena United 2024/2025 match and, especially, to convert it into goals.

Best goalscorer from Carrick Rangers

There are always individualities that stand out in a squad and in the team's attack, Paul Heatley has held that position so far in the competition. Serving Carrick Rangers with 5 goals this season, the Attacker has been a key player in winning triumphs.

Ballymena United

Premiership leaderboard now

With 31 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 10 wins against 11 losses, plus 1 draw.

Ballymena United analysis

Ballymena United counted 27 goals scored and 29 conceded at the end of Premiership day number 25.

Recent performances have highlighted that Ballymena United is having trouble generating goals, with a low number of goals for and a high number of failed to score matches. This suggests that the team is struggling to create quality chances and convert them into goals, indicating the need for improvement in their attacking play.

Ballymena United is not among the teams that kick more often towards the target, with only 2.91 shots on goal per match on average. But it must be said that when it does attack, it does so accurately. Right now it averages 1.23 accomplishments per game, meaning that it has scored a goal on 40 percent of the occasions it has gotten to the shot.

Usually, opposing teams have little chances of beating Ballymena United when playing away, who sports a balance of 6 wins, 4 losses, and 1 draw in the Premiership.

Ballymena United is a more offensive team than Carrick Rangers, having 1604 attacks vs. 882 from Carrick Rangers, having scored 27 times, in comparison, Carrick Rangers converted into goal 20 times.

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 12 goals with his signature, the Midfielder has helped his team Ballymena United to achieve victorious results this season.

It should also be noted that 6 of the goals scored by the player were from the penalty spot.

Now a few markets where you can get some return from your bets:

Goals Top Betting Tips

It can also be interesting to bet on who will score in this match. The featured player of Carrick Rangers is Paul Heatley, who has already scored 5 goals in the competition. On the other hand, the leading scorer of Ballymena United is Ben Kennedy, he has scored in 12 opportunities.

Most goals are scored between 75-90 as some study shows, which makes this a good time to bet for those following the live game.

Since Ballymena United has an average of 1.36 goals per game when playing away from home, and they often do not concede goals away from home, the under 2.5 goals can also be an excellent alternative to consider.

Currently, at Bet365, the odds for the Total Goals Under 2.5 market are quoted at 1.8.

Corners Top Betting Tips

One will find that combining the number of corners of both teams gives an average of 2.82 corners per game, making this something to note in attempting to obtain good betting results.

Cards Top Betting Tips

Highly disciplined, the teams have an average of only 3.96 yellow cards per match, when added together. In other words, the 'Under 4.5 cards' option looks like a great alternative for bettors.

On the Ballymena United side, we know that it is a more aggressive team having received the red card 3 time this season, very different from Carrick Rangers who only saw the red card once. Both the red and yellow cards market can be a good bet.

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