Cliftonville - Ballymena United

Postponed match for the Premiership of Northern Ireland. The match that was scheduled for 2/1/2018, was stopped at half time due to strong winds. For this reason, the administration of the home team announced that the entrance will be free for tonight's match.

Cliftonville is in very good shape with 3 consecutive wins in March. For a start, they defeated the champions Crusaders 3-1, passed with a double 0-1 from the home of Carrick Rangers while in the meantime passed with a double also with 0-1 from the home of last year's champion Linfield for the quarterfinals of the Cup, qualifying for the semifinals. There he will face Loughgall, a Division B team on 31/3 at home and so he has a great opportunity to claim the trophy in the final. As far as the championship is concerned, it is in the 5th place with 55 points and with any victory today it will go to -5 from the 3rd place that gives a European ticket. It has one of the strongest seats in the Division this year (10-2-3) and is led by Northern Ireland striker Joseph Anthony Gormley who returned to the team this year and has scored 21 goals in all competitions. Gormley in the four years 2011 - 2015 had 133 appearances with the team scoring 85 goals and last is in great form scoring 4 goals in the last 3.

Balimena on the other hand is not at all in a good phase of the season having 6 defeats in the last 7 for all competitions. In the last one they lost inside the weak Warrenpoint with 1-3, while last Wednesday also in a home game they were eliminated by Larne group B category for the quarterfinals of the Cup. In general, away from home, it is significantly weakened (3-3-8) and will compromise with its presence in the 2nd Group of the championship where it will try to maintain the lead to participate with the 4-6 teams of the 1st Group in barrage matches for a place. in the upcoming Europa League.

In short, Cliftonville is much superior to Balimena, something that is revealed by the 17 points that separate the two teams, it has the form, the psychology, the headquarters and the goal of the 3rd place that it is chasing. It also has a tremendous tradition at home against Balimena, which it wins for 9 consecutive games that hosts it for the championship and has all the supplies tonight to make 10.

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