It’s a big weekend of football coming up in Northern Ireland with three Danske Bank Premiership matches taking place tonight, the League Cup final taking place tomorrow night and a further league game rounding off the action on Monday night. Our panel will be making their predictions for all five matches later in this article but first, let’s take a quick look back at how last week went for the guys.
Adrian continued his rise up the table after correctly predicting the results in the Glenavon v Ards and Institute v Ballymena fixtures; he also scored a point apiece for getting the outcomes correct in the Cliftonville v Newry and Linfield v Coleraine matches. This moved him up to sixth, ten points clear of the bottom spot he has found himself in for much of the season.
The top scorer though was Keith O’D who managed a total of nine points. Like Adrian, Keith also backed a 3-2 win for Linfield against Coleraine and he also went for a 2-0 win for Gary Hamilton’s Glenavon side over basement side Ards. In fact, the only fixture Keith didn’t score points on was Dungannon Swifts v Crusaders where the Swifts surprised all of us by grabbing a 1-0 win.
Despite this, the top of the table remains unchanged as Henry managed to get five points on the board to keep himself five points clear at the top.
The full leaderboard looks like this:
| 1: Henry | 89 |
| 2: Keith O’D | 84 |
| 3: Bryan | 83 |
| 4: Darren | 80 |
| 5: Cameron | 79 |
| 6: Adrian | 76 |
| 7: Rodney | 74 |
| 8: Keith F | 66 |
Here is this week’s full fixture list, all matches kick off tonight at 7:45pm unless otherwise stated:-
Ards v Institute
Crusaders v Coleraine
Dungannon Swifts v Warrenpoint Town
Ballymena United v Linfield (League Cup Final – Windsor Park, kick off at 5:30pm)
Glentoran v Glenavon (Monday, kick off at 7:45pm)
As usual, our team of writers will get three points for predicting the correct result in a fixture and one point for the correct outcome, regarding the League Cup final, the team will be making their predictions based on the match lasting 90 minutes. First up is Rodney:
Rodney
Ards 1 v 1 Institute
Crusaders 2 v 0 Coleraine
Dungannon Swifts 2 v 1 Warrenpoint Town
Glentoran 2 v 1 Glenavon
Ballymena United 1 v 2 Linfield
Henry
Ards 2 v 1 Institute
Crusaders 2 v 2 Coleraine
Dungannon Swifts 2 v 0 Warrenpoint Town
Glentoran 2 v 2 Glenavon
Ballymena United 1 v 1 Linfield 1
Bryan
Ards 1 v 2 Institute
Crusaders 2 v 1 Coleraine
Dungannon Swifts 1 v 0 Warrenpoint Town
Glentoran 1 v 2 Glenavon
Ballymena United 2 v 1 Linfield
Cameron
Ards 0 v 2 Institute
Crusaders 1 v 1 Coleraine
Dungannon Swifts 0 v 0 Warrenpoint Town
Glentoran 1 v 3 Glenavon
Ballymena United 0 v 2 Linfield
Darren
Ards 1 v 1 Institute
Crusaders 2 v 2 Coleraine
Dungannon Swifts 3 v 0 Warrenpoint Town
Glentoran 2 v 1 Glenavon
Ballymena United 0 v 1 Linfield
Adrian
Ards 1 v 0 Institute
Crusaders 2 v 1 Coleraine
Dungannon Swifts 2 v 1 Warrenpoint Town
Glentoran 1 v 2 Glenavon
Ballymena United 1 v 1 Linfield
Keith O’D
Ards 2 v 1 Institute
Crusaders 1 v 2 Coleraine
Dungannon Swifts 0 v 0 Warrenpoint Town
Glentoran 1 v 3 Glenavon
Ballymena United 1 v 0 Linfield
As always if you agree or disagree with our team you can let us know your own predictions on our Twitter page @o_t_turnstile.
Elsewhere tonight the 2019 League of Ireland (LOI) campaign kicks off and you can also read our teams predictions for the opening day fixtures elsewhere on overtheturnstile.uk today and you can also check out Keith O’D’s article on this week’s Presidents Cup curtain raiser and some of the latest transfers.
