Crusaders FC 2-1 Ballymena United — Result, Statistics & Match Review — North Ireland - Premier League, 15 Aug 2026

📅15/08/2026 · 🕒17:00 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 2-1 2nd Score 1-2
MODEL iddaakolik · Our Predictions
Authentic Intelligence™ · Probability per market · Global + League + Team blend
⏱ Odds and predictions are pre-match — updates freeze from ~20 minutes before kick-off.
Match Result
Home
31%
3.69
Draw
20%
3.72
Away
49%
1.74
Under/Over 2.5
Under
43%
2.18
Over Pick
57%
1.62
Both Teams to Score
Yes
54%
1.61
No
46%
2.16
Total Goals
0-1
22%
4.04
2-3
42%
1.83
4-5
24%
2.87
6+
12%
8.63
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
12%
6.37
1/2
12%
21.0
1/X
7%
15.0
X/1
13%
8.74
X/2
12%
4.47
X/X
7%
5.78
2/1
6%
34.5
2/2
25%
2.29
2/X
6%
13.9
Value flag · 1/2 at 21.0 — our 12% vs market 2.5%. Did not land — edges play out over many matches, not one.
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Our Pick
Over 2.5 — 57%
Fair price · no betting value
Every market fairly priced — no value edge at these odds. Our Pick = the most likely outcome, not a value bet.
STRENGTH Away Win Over 2.5 BTTS Yes — pattern-based signals at fair odds; informational, not a sized bet.
PREVIEW Match Preview Engine
iddaakolik Team Elo · Form · Goals signals
HOME Crusaders FC The Market 27%
Head to Head
AWAY Ballymena United The Market 57%
-8% / -4% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations -25% / -25%
1.15/1.78 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 0.92/1.21
+0% / -17% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) -50% / -17%
46% Ball Possession 54%
9 Total Shots 14
4 Shots on Target 6
4 Corners 6
259 · 76% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 420 · 81%
Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area
Crosses
3.0 Yellow Cards 0.5
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Crusaders FC
3W-2D-1L
AWAY Ballymena United
1.33 Avg Goals (FT) 1.00
17.02.2026 Ballymena United Ballymena United 2-0 HT 0-0 Crusaders FC Crusaders FC KİRL
22.11.2025 Ballymena United Ballymena United 2-2 HT 1-2 Crusaders FC Crusaders FC KİRL
20.09.2025 Crusaders FC Crusaders FC 1-1 HT 0-0 Ballymena United Ballymena United KİRL
15.02.2025 Crusaders FC Crusaders FC 3-1 HT 2-1 Ballymena United Ballymena United KİRL
26.10.2024 Crusaders FC Crusaders FC 1-0 HT 0-0 Ballymena United Ballymena United KİRL
20.08.2024 Ballymena United Ballymena United 0-1 HT 0-1 Crusaders FC Crusaders FC KİRL
REVIEW Crusaders FC vs Ballymena United
IDDAAKOLIK POST-MATCH REVIEW

Crusaders FC nicked a narrow win over Ballymena United 2-1.

We leaned Ballymena United at 49% — softly — and the game went the other way. Slim leads do that. For what it's worth, the market was even more convinced — 1.74, about 57% — so the upset beat the price as well as us. The goals call finished the job: over 2.5 goals (57%) landed.

The head-to-head backdrop: across their last 6 meetings in our records, Crusaders FC had the better of it with 3 wins, 2 drawn. Those games averaged 1.33 goals for Crusaders FC and 1.00 for Ballymena United.

Crusaders FC vs Ballymena United Result & Final Score

Crusaders FC 2-1 Ballymena United in the North Ireland - Premier League on 15/08/2026. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

Crusaders FC vs Ballymena United Prediction vs Result

Before kick-off our model rated an Ballymena United win the most likely single outcome at about 49%, with the full match-result split Crusaders FC 31%, draw 20%, Ballymena United 49%. The final score 2-1 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on Over 2.5, BTTS Yes — while Match Result (Ballymena United) went the other way.

✗ Match Result (Ballymena United) ✓ Over 2.5 ✓ BTTS Yes
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