Carrick Rangers 0-0 Ballymena United — Result, Statistics & Match Review — North Ireland - Premier League, 18 Jan 2025

📅18/01/2025 · 🕒18:00 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 1-1 2nd Score 1-0
MODEL iddaakolik · Our Predictions
Probability per market · Global + League + Team blend
⏱ Odds and predictions are pre-match — updates freeze from ~20 minutes before kick-off.
Match Result
Home
39%
2.0
Draw
33%
3.28
Away
28%
3.34
Under/Over 2.5
Under 2.5
58%
1.71
Over 2.5
42%
2.03
Both Teams to Score
Yes
53%
1.85
No
47%
1.85
Total Goals
0-1 Goal
31%
2.7
2-3 Goals
42%
1.72
4-5 Goals
18%
3.88
6+ Goals
9%
18.1
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
20%
2.83
1/2
5%
34.5
1/X EV+ ✗
15%
13.65
X/1
12%
4.56
X/2
14%
7.15
X/X
12%
4.35
2/1
7%
27.0
2/2
9%
5.63
2/X
6%
14.55
Value flag · 1/X at 13.65 — our 15% vs market 4.6%. Did not land — edges play out over many matches, not one.
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
39%
Home Win
46%
-7.4pp
33%
Draw
27%
+5.8pp
28%
Away Win
27%
+1.6pp
58%
Under 2.5
55%
+3.0pp
42%
Over 2.5
45%
-3.1pp
53%
BTTS Yes
50%
+3.0pp
47%
BTTS No
50%
-3.0pp
gold — our model green — our served pick grey — EU market (margin removed: each group sums to 100%)
Edge (pp): green = we see more probability than the market · gold = essentially even (±0.5pp) · red = we see less. The Decision above outranks any single row: the engine backs well-supported edges, not merely big ones.
PREVIEW Match Preview Engine
iddaakolik Team Elo · Form · Goals signals
HOME Carrick Rangers EU Bookmakers 50%
Head to Head
AWAY Ballymena United EU Bookmakers 30%
-8% / -17% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations +0% / +9%
1.20/1.32 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 1.31/1.46
-20% / -18% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) +21% / +3%
53% Ball Possession 47%
12 Total Shots 11
5 Shots on Target 5
4 Corners 5
371 · 81% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 250 · 69%
Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area
Crosses
2.9 Yellow Cards 2.6
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Carrick Rangers
3W-0D-3L
AWAY Ballymena United
1.17 Avg Goals (FT) 1.33
46% Ball Possession 54%
11 Total Shots 8
5 Shots on Target 3
4 Corners 3
4 Yellow Cards 3
30.11.2024 Ballymena United Ballymena United 1-2 HT 0-0 Carrick Rangers Carrick Rangers KİRL
17.09.2024 Carrick Rangers Carrick Rangers 1-4 HT 0-2 Ballymena United Ballymena United KİRL
13.04.2024 Carrick Rangers Carrick Rangers 2-1 HT 0-0 Ballymena United Ballymena United KİRL
15.12.2023 Ballymena United Ballymena United 0-2 HT 0-1 Carrick Rangers Carrick Rangers KİRL
09.09.2023 Carrick Rangers Carrick Rangers 0-1 HT 0-1 Ballymena United Ballymena United KİRL
29.04.2023 Ballymena United Ballymena United 1-0 HT 0-0 Carrick Rangers Carrick Rangers KİRL
POST-MATCH Carrick Rangers vs Ballymena United
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Carrick Rangers and Ballymena United played out a goalless draw. Neither side could find a way through.

We called this one close before kick-off — 39% / 33% / 28% — and a draw is about as on-script as that read gets. The goals side of the card held up too — under 2.5 goals (58%) came in.

Coming into the game, across their last 6 meetings in our records, honours were even at 3 apiece. Those games averaged 1.17 goals for Carrick Rangers and 1.33 for Ballymena United.

What was the final score of Carrick Rangers vs Ballymena United?

Carrick Rangers 0-0 Ballymena United in the North Ireland - Premier League on 18/01/2025. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for Carrick Rangers vs Ballymena United?

Before kick-off our model rated a Carrick Rangers win the most likely single outcome at about 39%, with the full match-result split Carrick Rangers 39%, draw 33%, Ballymena United 28%. The final score 0-0 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on Under 2.5 — while Match Result (Carrick Rangers), BTTS Yes went the other way.

✗ Match Result (Carrick Rangers) ✓ Under 2.5 ✗ BTTS Yes
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