Strabane Athletic vs Glenavon FC Prediction & Betting Tips

League form this season

Glenavon FC's Championship record reads six wins, seven draws and seven losses from twenty matches, with 31 goals scored and 31 conceded. That's a fairly even split of results, without any long streaks either way.

Strabane Athletic: 20 completed matches; Glenavon FC: 20 completed matches.

Strabane Athletic

20 matches

Win

35% 7 / 20

Draw

25% 5 / 20

Loss

40% 8 / 20

Scored

27

Conceded

37

Difference

-10

Glenavon FC

20 matches

Win

35% 7 / 20

Draw

30% 6 / 20

Loss

35% 7 / 20

Scored

33

Conceded

30

Difference

+3

Strabane Athletic have won seven, drawn five and lost eight from the same number of games, scoring 28 and conceding 38. The extra goals against stand out — this looks like a side that's found goals easier to give up than to score.

Strabane's leaky defence could be the bigger factor here than any home advantage.

Comparative Team Statistics: Strabane Athletic vs Glenavon FC

Their recent meeting

The only meeting on record between these two came on 15 August, when Glenavon won 4-1. That game was played at Glenavon's own ground in the Championship, not at Strabane's, and it's now over two months old by the time this cup tie comes around.

A single result from a different venue and a different competition doesn't tell us much about how a cup match at Strabane will go, but it's the only direct comparison we have.

Different competition, different ground

This is a League Cup tie rather than a league match, and it's being played at Strabane's ground instead of Glenavon's. Both of those changes make the earlier 4-1 result harder to lean on.

With both teams showing inconsistent form in the league — neither has fewer than seven losses in twenty games — this looks like an open contest rather than one where either side's recent numbers point clearly one way.