2nd placed Coleraine managed to make one of their games in hands over league leaders, Linfield, count during the week when they beat a now 5th placed Larne by two goals to nil at The Coleraine Showgrounds, the goals coming from Curtis Allen and James McLaughlin.
Ballymena continued their rise up the table as a Steven Gordon own goal and a late Shay McCartan strike secured a 2-0 win for David Jeffrey’s side over a Carrick side who suffered their 18th defeat of the season, the win moved the Sky Blues into 4th place in the table.
In North Belfast, Crusaders have slipped into the bottom half of the table but they did manage to stop a run of four defeats in a row thanks to a 2-1 victory against Portadown at Shamrock Park and in the final game played on Tuesday night Glenavon thrashed bottom side Dungannon 4-0.
Here is the league table after Tuesday night’s games: –
| POS | TEAM | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | PTS |
| 1 | Linfield | 28 | 19 | 3 | 6 | 67 | 28 | 39 | 60 |
| 2 | Coleraine | 27 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 42 | 25 | 17 | 53 |
| 3 | Glentoran | 26 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 45 | 22 | 23 | 48 |
| 4 | Ballymena United | 28 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 44 | 30 | 14 | 45 |
| 5 | Larne | 27 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 42 | 28 | 14 | 45 |
| 6 | Cliftonville | 27 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 38 | 30 | 8 | 43 |
| 7 | Crusaders | 28 | 13 | 3 | 12 | 47 | 36 | 11 | 42 |
| 8 | Glenavon | 27 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 44 | 44 | 0 | 39 |
| 9 | Warrenpoint Town | 26 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 27 | 45 | -18 | 26 |
| 10 | Portadown | 26 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 30 | 55 | -25 | 18 |
| 11 | Carrick Rangers | 27 | 4 | 5 | 18 | 26 | 65 | -39 | 17 |
| 12 | Dungannon Swifts | 27 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 17 | 61 | -44 | 15 |
Between tonight (Friday 2nd April 2021) and tomorrow there is a full programme of six Danske Bank Premiership fixtures, with the following games taking place tomorrow at 15:00 unless otherwise stated: –
Ballymena United v Crusaders (Friday 2nd April 2021 at 19:30 – streamed live on BBC iPlayer)
Coleraine v Glenavon
Glentoran v Portadown
Larne v Carrick Rangers
Warrenpoint Town v Cliftonville
Dungannon Swifts v Linfield (Saturday 3rd April 2021 at 17:30 – streamed live on BBC iPlayer)
In our writer’s prediction league Darren managed to overtake Richard during the week after correctly predicting a 2-0 win for Coleraine and victories for Ballymena and Glenavon while Richard could only manage three points for predicting Coleraine, Ballymena and Crusaders wins.
Rodney was the top scorer in midweek and extended his lead to the top to 21 points, predicting the correct outcome in all four games and getting the scorelines in the Coleraine v Larne and Portadown v Crusaders games exactly correct.
For this reason, Rodney leads the way with his predictions for the weekend: –
Rodney
Ballymena United 2-1 Crusaders
Coleraine 2-1 Glenavon
Glentoran 3-0 Portadown
Larne 3-0 Carrick Rangers
Warrenpoint Town 2-2 Cliftonville
Dungannon Swifts 0-3 Linfield
Darren
Ballymena United 0-0 Crusaders
Coleraine 2-0 Glenavon
Glentoran 3-0 Portadown
Larne 3-0 Carrick Rangers
Warrenpoint Town 1-2 Cliftonville
Dungannon Swifts 0-5 Linfield
Adrian
Ballymena United 1-1 Crusaders
Coleraine 3-1 Glenavon
Glentoran 1-1 Portadown
Larne 3-1 Carrick Rangers
Warrenpoint Town 0-2 Cliftonville
Dungannon Swifts 0-5 Linfield
Cameron
Ballymena United 2-2 Crusaders
Coleraine 2-0 Glenavon
Glentoran 3-1 Portadown
Larne 4-0 Carrick Rangers
Warrenpoint Town 0-2 Cliftonville
Dungannon Swifts 0-6 Linfield
Richard
Ballymena United 2-0 Crusaders
Coleraine 3-0 Glenavon
Glentoran 1-2 Portadown
Larne 1-0 Carrick Rangers
Warrenpoint Town 1-0 Cliftonville
Dungannon Swifts 0-2 Linfield
Here is the current prediction league leaderboard: –
| 1. Rodney | 131 |
| 2. Cameron | 109 |
| 3. Adrian | 85 |
| 4: Darren | 83 |
| 5: Richard | 82 |
