LinfieldAttacking momentumCliftonville
Preview
- 2026-08-21 at 19:45 GMT marks a key week 3 encounter between Linfield and Cliftonville in 2026-2027's Premiership.
- In the past 2 games, Jim Magilton recorded 2 victories against David Healy, who recorded no wins, with no draws.
- Linfield currently rank 8th (with 3 pts), versus Cliftonville at 1st on 6 pts.
- Both teams have no missing players.
- We anticipate Linfield lining up with five at the back (5-3-2), and Cliftonville are expected to line up in 4-3-3.
- Both sides left it all on the pitch: Linfield won 2-1 against Glentoran, and Cliftonville secured a victory 3-0 over Bangor.
- Linfield (3-0-2) and Cliftonville (3-1-1) head into this in winning moods from their past 5 matches.
- Dominance for Linfield: across 65 clashes, they've won 28 games and only lost 23 games to Cliftonville, with 14 stalemates.
- We're forecasting a stalemate, 0-0, as Linfield's 1.00 goals/game at home balance out Cliftonville's 2.00 away scoring.
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Odds
Predictions
Summary
Match Info
Team Kits
Linfield
Cliftonville
Events
HT 0 - 0 | |||
| 56' | 1 - 0 | ||
| 56' | |||
| 56' | |||
| 64' | |||
| 68' | |||
| 77' | |||
| 80' | L. McStravick | ||
| 88' | |||
| 90+3' | K. McClean | ||
Standings
Linfield is going head to head with Cliftonville on 21/8/2026 18:45 GMT for the Northern Ireland Premiership. You can view the match information, lineups, odds, live score, result, goalscorers, cards, substitutions, standings, recent form, player ratings, injuries, tv channels, our users most predicted scores and Linfield v Cliftonville H2H statistics!