Only three points good enough for Cliftonville in Dungannon Swifts game

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

This stadium uses artifical turf, unlike Dungannon Swifts's home stadium. The visitors last six games on artifical turf have ended in 0 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses.

Cliftonville form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Solitude as Cliftonville have scored 32 goals to get 35 points from 15 games. The overall stats in the Premiership are 11-2-2 (wins-draws-losses). Cliftonville has won so many consecutive home games (six in a row) that they struggle to remember the last time points were lost here at Solitude. We remember; it was Glenavon.

Nothing to worry about in defence for Cliftonville, as their goalkeeper Aaron McCarey has completely shut out the opponents for 203 minutes in the Premiership.

The Cliftonville supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Dungannon Swifts in Premiership and win 3-0. In the preceding match a 5-0 victory visiting Warrenpoint Town.

The Cliftonville manager P. McLaughlin has got the team scoring with 32 from 15 home games in the league. On the other hand, Cliftonville have conceded 15 goals.

Dungannon Swifts form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Dungannon Swifts, who have the fewest scored goals (17) in Premiership, so far with only 6 points returning home. The records show 1-3-10 (win-draw-lose). It's looking increasingly bleak for Dungannon who now has to deal with a four game losing streak. Crusaders was the last time a defeat was avoided. A depressing four defeats in a row for Dungannon in their away games. Unhappy days, as the last time they avoided a loss on the road was versus Warrenpoint Town.

B. Gallagher was the last player to score for the away team. Dungannon haven't scored a league goal in the last 298 minutes.

Dungannon play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-3 to Cliftonville (placed 5th). Preceding that, the 0-2 home loss versus Linfield.

As mentioned above, the bookmakers do not believe the away team will get anything from this match. Checking Dungannon's match history for similar games we find six matches. The home team won four of these as expected, four of them by at least two goals. Dungannon Swifts managed two draws and zero surprise wins.

Dungannon are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed 6 goals from 14 away games. The opposition has been scoring high and low on Dungannon Swifts's goalkeeper in away games this season, as they have let in 35 goals in 14 travels.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: Cliftonville - Dungannon Swifts 3-0. Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: five wins for Cliftonville, three draws and two wins for Dungannon Swifts. Over 2,5 goals: seven times; under 2,5 goals: three games.

Top Goalscorers

M. McCrudden 9 goals

R. Curran 8 goals

D. O'Connor 4 goals

Cliftonville missing players

Dungannon Swifts missing players

		Total						Home						Away
#	Team	MP	W	D	L	F	A	MP	W	D	L	F	A	MP	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	P
1	Linfield	29	20	3	6	69	28	15	12	2	1	45	7	14	8	1	5	24	21	41	63
2	Coleraine	28	16	6	6	42	25	16	10	3	3	23	12	12	6	3	3	19	13	17	54
3	Glentoran	28	15	7	6	51	24	13	9	3	1	28	7	15	6	4	5	23	17	27	52
4	Larne	29	14	9	6	47	29	15	8	4	3	24	13	14	6	5	3	23	16	18	51
5	Cliftonville	29	14	7	8	46	30	15	11	2	2	32	15	14	3	5	6	14	15	16	49
6	Ballymena United	30	13	7	10	46	33	16	6	4	6	23	20	14	7	3	4	23	13	13	46
7	Crusaders	30	14	4	12	49	37	14	8	1	5	25	15	16	6	3	7	24	22	12	46
8	Glenavon	29	11	10	8	45	44	14	4	7	3	22	23	15	7	3	5	23	21	1	43
9	Warrenpoint Town	28	6	8	14	27	51	12	2	5	5	14	20	16	4	3	9	13	31	-24	26
10	Portadown	28	4	6	18	31	61	13	1	3	9	13	23	15	3	3	9	18	38	-30	18
11	Carrick Rangers	29	4	6	19	27	69	15	2	4	9	19	32	14	2	2	10	8	37	-42	18
12	Dungannon Swifts	29	4	3	22	17	66	15	3	0	12	11	31	14	1	3	10	6	35	-49	15