You can remind yourselves of our predictions for today’s SSE Airtricity League match here but today we’re focusing on the Danske Bank Premiership matches that take place tonight, of which there are six.
Tonight is the penultimate set of matches in the league and all the attention is at the bottom of the table, where Ards and Newry are separated only by goal difference with Ards currently holding the upper hand. Remember, whichever team finishes bottom goes straight down while the team in 11th faces a two-legged play-off with a team from the Championship.
Today Ards are at home to Dungannon and Newry make a lengthy trip to eighth-placed Institute. The full fixture list for tonight is as follows, all games kick off at 7:45pm:-
Ards v Dungannon Swifts
Ballymena United v Glenavon
Coleraine v Crusaders
Glentoran v Warrenpoint Town
Institute v Newry City
Linfield v Cliftonville
Going into tonight’s games here is how the Danske Bank Premiership looks:-
| Pos | Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Linfield | 36 | 25 | 6 | 5 | 71 | 25 | 46 | 81 |
| 2 | Ballymena United | 36 | 22 | 6 | 8 | 76 | 44 | 32 | 72 |
| 3 | Glenavon | 36 | 19 | 10 | 7 | 67 | 42 | 25 | 67 |
| 4 | Crusaders | 36 | 20 | 5 | 11 | 66 | 48 | 18 | 65 |
| 5 | Cliftonville | 36 | 19 | 4 | 13 | 69 | 57 | 12 | 61 |
| 6 | Coleraine | 36 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 54 | 52 | 2 | 52 |
| 7 | Glentoran | 36 | 12 | 9 | 15 | 54 | 51 | 3 | 45 |
| 8 | Institute | 36 | 12 | 5 | 19 | 48 | 69 | -21 | 41 |
| 9 | Dungannon Swifts | 36 | 10 | 9 | 17 | 43 | 64 | -21 | 39 |
| 10 | Warrenpoint Town | 36 | 10 | 7 | 19 | 48 | 76 | -28 | 37 |
| 11 | Ards | 36 | 5 | 8 | 23 | 29 | 62 | -33 | 23 |
| 12 | Newry City | 36 | 6 | 5 | 25 | 30 | 65 | -35 | 23 |
As well as being the penultimate set of fixtures in the Danske Bank Premiership, it’s also the penultimate set of fixtures for our Danske Bank Premiership prediction league. At the moment Henry holds a two-point lead at the top but with only seven points between the top seven, anyone can still come away with the prediction king crown, even Keith Fitzsimons, albeit it may take a minor miracle or two for that particular outcome.
Here’s our current leaderboard:-
| 1: Henry | 109 |
| 2: Keith O’D/Bryan | 107 |
| 4: Adrian | 105 |
| 5: Cameron | 104 |
| 6: Darren | 103 |
| 7: Rodney | 102 |
| 8: Keith F | 84 |
Today Keith O’Dwyer is first up with his predictions, as always our writers will get three points for predicting the correct result and a point for predicting the correct outcome:-
Keith O’D
Ards 0-0 Dungannon Swifts
Ballymena United 1-0 Glenavon
Coleraine 1-2 Crusaders
Glentoran 1-0 Warrenpoint Town
Institute 0-0 Newry City
Linfield 1-1 Cliftonville
Darren
Ards 2-1 Dungannon Swifts
Ballymena United 1-1 Glenavon
Coleraine 1-1 Crusaders
Glentoran 3-0 Warrenpoint Town
Institute 1-0 Newry City
Linfield 0-0 Cliftonville
Henry
Ards 2-0 Dungannon Swifts
Ballymena United 2-2 Glenavon
Coleraine 0-0 Crusaders
Glentoran 3-1 Warrenpoint Town
Institute 2-1 Newry City
Linfield 2-2 Cliftonville
Cameron
Ards 1-0 Dungannon Swifts
Ballymena United 1-2 Glenavon
Coleraine 0-0 Crusaders
Glentoran 2-0 Warrenpoint Town
Institute 1-1 Newry City
Linfield 2-1 Cliftonville
Adrian
Ards 1-1 Dungannon Swifts
Ballymena United 1-2 Glenavon
Coleraine 1-2 Crusaders
Glentoran 3-2 Warrenpoint Town
Institute 3-0 Newry City
Linfield 2-0 Cliftonville
Rodney
Ards 1-2 Dungannon Swifts
Ballymena United 1-0 Glenavon
Coleraine 1-2 Crusaders
Glentoran 2-0 Warrenpoint Town
Institute 2-1 Newry City
Linfield 2-1 Cliftonville
Bryan
Ards 0-2 Dungannon Swifts
Ballymena United 2-1 Glenavon
Coleraine 0-1 Crusaders
Glentoran 1-0 Warrenpoint Town
Institute 2-0 Newry City
Linfield 1-0 Cliftonville
Keith F
Linfield 2-1 Cliftonville
Institute 2-3 Newry City
Glentoran 3-1 Warrenpoint Town
Coleraine 0-2 Crusaders
Ballymena United 3-1 Glenavon
Ards 2-1 Dungannon Swifts
There are also three matches taking part in the Bluefin Sport Premier Intermediate League (PIL) tonight, all kicking off at the slightly earlier time of 6:45pm:-
Banbridge Town v Annagh United
Portstewart v Sport and Leisure Swifts
Queens University v Tobermore United
The Easter football also continues tomorrow with the following Danske Bank Premiership fixtures taking place, all at 8:00pm:-
Cliftonville v Comber Rec
Derry City v Glentoran
Sion Swifts v Crusaders
We hope that this season we will be covering the Danske Bank Women’s Premiership as much as possible, with a weekly roundup so watch this space.
You can read up on Saturday’s matches by checking out Darren’s Premiership roundup here. Also if you’re not sure how European qualification will be working in the league this season with the current standings, you can check out Darren’s breakdown here.
