Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Portadown & Banbridge Town face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Irish Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
Both contenders have had enough days rest since their previous work day in an official game. Let's wish for an in-your-face fixture!
Portadown form and stats
Portadown's struggle is real here at Shamrock Park with only 5 points collected from 11 Premiership games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-2-8.
Portadown drew their last game, also a home match. Dungannon Swifts was the opponent, 0-0 the score.
A Premiership defeat was the result before that one, 1-2 away at Glenavon.The lack of attacking qualities in Portadown means that they have only scored {4 goals} in 11 league home games, less than half a goal per match.
Banbridge Town form and stats
1-1-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Banbridge Town in their Premier Intermediate League matches away.
Banbridge Town play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 3-0 victory visiting Lisburn Distillery.
Ahead of that, the Irish Cup win away at Ballymacash Rangers.
Banbridge Town have scored 5 goals on their travels this season, from 4 away games in the league. The Banbridge Town manager Nicks has some worries about the defense as 9 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
As for the last two games between these two teams, there's two Portadown victories, zero draws and zero Banbridge Town wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, zero matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  J. Jenkins 3 goals | G. Moorhouse 2 goals | B. McKeown 1 goals |
Portadown missing players
Banbridge Town missing players
| Portadown | Banbridge Town | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Won | W | 6 | 8 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | ||
| 21 | 8 | Lost | L | 7 | 14 | ||
| 9 | 4 | Scored | S | 23 | 35 | ||
| 62 | 22 | Conceded | C | 28 | 63 | ||
| 96% | 91% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 84% | 73% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 79% | 80% | ||
| 56% | 45% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 64% | 72% | ||
| 28% | 18% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 43% | 48% | ||
| 12% | 9% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 29% | 40% | ||
| 28% | 27% | BTTS | BTTS | 43% | 48% | ||
| 12% | 18% | Clean Sheets | C S | 21% | 20% | ||
| 64% | 64% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 36% | ||
| 4.4 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 1.7 | 2.8 | ||
| 6.1 | 7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 4.2 | ||
| 2.1 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 0.8 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 6.5 | 8.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.5 | 6 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.5 | 2.3 | ||
| 12% | 14% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 29% | ||
| 11.4 | 11.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15.5 | 16.7 | ||
| 6 | 6.1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 7.5 | 9 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Larne | 21 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 39 | 15 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 11 | 24 | 45 |
| 2 | Cliftonville | 21 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 37 | 26 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 18 | 11 | 45 |
| 3 | Linfield | 21 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 38 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 6 | 21 | 43 |
| 4 | Crusaders | 21 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 44 | 24 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 30 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 20 | 42 |
| 5 | Coleraine | 21 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 34 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 7 | 17 | 37 |
| 6 | Glentoran | 19 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 33 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 8 | 20 | 35 |
| 7 | Ballymena United | 20 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 26 | 29 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 16 | -3 | 26 |
| 8 | Glenavon | 19 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 33 | 32 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 1 | 23 |
| 9 | Carrick Rangers | 21 | 7 | 2 | 12 | 27 | 42 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 17 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 26 | -15 | 23 |
| 10 | Newry City AFC | 20 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 22 | 39 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 26 | -17 | 18 |
| 11 | Dungannon Swifts | 22 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 15 | 48 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 33 | -33 | 14 |
| 12 | Portadown | 22 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 7 | 53 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 22 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 31 | -46 | 5 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Ballymacash Rangers | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 20 | 26 |
| 2 | Bangor | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 23 | 25 |
| 3 | Queen's University | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 17 |
| 4 | Dollingstown | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 15 |
| 5 | Limavady United | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 15 |
| 6 | Tobermore United | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 14 |
| 7 | Moyola Park | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 12 |
| 8 | Portstewart | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -4 | 11 |
| 9 | Banbridge Town | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | -6 | 8 |
| 10 | Armagh City | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 31 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 15 | -19 | 8 |
| 11 | Lisburn Distillery | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 23 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | -17 | 5 |
| 12 | PSNI | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 28 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 20 | -22 | 1 |
