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After last weekend’s fixtures Crusaders now have the best unbeaten league run (3).

The Crues have won five of their last six league games and have kept four clean sheets in their last five away league games.

Coleraine got their first away league win at Linfield since August 2019 bringing Linfield’s 12 game unbeaten league run to an end.

Linfield had previously won their last nine home league games in a row.

Linfield have only conceded more than one goal at home in four of their last 21 league matches (Coleraine doing it twice)

Carrick Rangers have now had five scoreless draws in their last 11 league games.

Dungannon Swifts have gone 53 games without a scoreless draw in the league which is the longest run in the topflight without one.

There have been 35 goals in stoppage time in the league so far this season with Carrick Rangers conceding the most (8) and Cliftonville yet to concede.

Carrick only conceded two goals in stoppage time in 38 league games last season.

Larne have only conceded 16 goals in the first half of their last 85 league games.

Larne have only lost one of their last 58 league games when winning at half time.

Linfield’s Joel Cooper has the most goal involvements in the league this season (25) followed into second by Coleraine’s Matthew Shevlin (18) and closely followed in third by Cliftonville’s Joe Gormley (16).

Coleraine’s Ronan Doherty has the most successful pass completion rate (87%) in the league this season for any player playing ten or more league games.

A special mention must go to former Cliftonville player Michael Newberry who had an 83% successful pass rate in the league this season with an average of (53.7) accurate passes per game which is the still the highest by any player in the league this season.

Michael, you are sadly missed by all of us in the Irish league family.

Linfield’s Chris Shields averages the most accurate long balls per game in the league this season (6.7).

Dungannon Swifts' Dean Curry averages the most clearances per game in the league this season (5).

Portadown’s Aaron McCarey still leads the race for this season’s league Golden Glove with ten clean sheets, closely followed by Glentoran’s Daniel Gyollai (9), Crusaders' Jonathan Tuffey (9) and Linfield’s David Walsh (9).

Crusaders have picked up the most league yellow cards this season (94) with Cliftonville picking up the least (44).

Larne average the most possession in league games this season (56.5%) with Carrick Rangers averaging the least possession (40.3%).

Ballymena United have only won one of their last eight home league games against Larne since Larne returned to the topflight in 19/20 season.

Coleraine are unbeaten in their last home eight league fixtures against Portadown scoring 26 and conceding just four.

Matthew Shevlin has scored in the last three league fixtures between the sides at the Coleraine Showgrounds.

Portadown have only won one of the last 16 league fixtures between the sides which came on the 19/03/22 - Coleraine’s Lyndon Kane is the only player from the squads that day still at either club.