Wilgar Park: Dundela vs Portadown Championship preview

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Competition: Northern Ireland Championship
Competition: Sat 14.March
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Wilgar Park (2500 seats)

Dundela will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 20 points behind Portadown.

Dundela have less rest than Portadown in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Championship game only four days ago. That game was an away game at PSNI, so at least Dundela are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

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Dundela form and stats

Overall Championship stats at home this season for Dundela are 7-5-4 (wins-draw-losses).

Happy days for Dundela in their previous game, a Championship match away at PSNI (placed 11th) that ended with a 4-2 victory.

A goal frenzy last time out for Dundela, with a total of 6 goals in the match against PSNI. Fun stuff to watch!

A decent goal production from Dundela in their home games so far, with 27 goals from 16 league matches. Dundela have conceded 25 from these games.

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Portadown form and stats

9 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Portadown, who have the most scored goals (72) in Championship, playing as the away team in the Championship this season.

A loss against Ballyclare Comrades was the result prior to that, in a home game.

Portadown have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 32 goals from 16 away matches. 20 goals have been conceded by Portadown in these games.

Head 2 Head

This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Dundela - Portadown 1-1. As for the last six games between these two teams, there's two Dundela victories, one draw and three Portadown wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.

Dundela missing players

Portadown missing players

Dundela Portadown
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
31 16 5 Played P 4 16 31
13 7 0 Won W 3 9 20
7 5 1 Drew D 0 4 6
11 4 4 Lost L 1 3 5
43 27 3 Scored S 8 32 72
49 25 16 Conceded C 5 20 30
90% 88% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 94% 94%
71% 75% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 81% 84%
48% 56% 80% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 56% 58%
42% 50% 60% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 38% 39%
23% 31% 20% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 31% 29%
45% 56% 60% BTTS BTTS 75% 62% 48%
32% 31% 0% Clean Sheets C S 25% 38% 45%
32% 25% 40% Failed to Score F T 0% 6% 13%
 
2.7 2.8 3.8 Corners for (avg) C F 2.8 1.3 1.6
2.1 1.7 2.6 Corners against (avg) C A 2.2 1.4 1.7
1.1 1 1.4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.8 0.9 0.8
2 2 2 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
137 85 37 Total Shots T S 20 33 67
54 30 14 Shots on Target S O 12 18 33
56% 67% 21% Goal Efficiency G E 67% 128% 106%
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Dundela has the most matches under the total-line (6)
  • Dundela have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Portadown has the fewest conceded goals (30)
  • Portadown has the most clean sheets (14)
  • Portadown has the most scored goals (72)
  • Portadown has the most scored goals in the second half (48)
  • Portadown has the the best goal difference (+42)
  • Portadown have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Portadown have won significantly less corners away then at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Portadown 31 20 6 5 72 30 15 11 2 2 40 10 16 9 4 3 32 20 42 66
2 Loughgall 31 19 5 7 66 40 15 7 3 5 24 16 16 12 2 2 42 24 26 62
3 Ballinamallard United 30 19 3 8 71 34 16 10 2 4 42 19 14 9 1 4 29 15 37 60
4 Ards 31 15 7 9 65 44 16 8 3 5 32 24 15 7 4 4 33 20 21 52
5 Newry City AFC 30 15 6 9 55 32 16 7 2 7 32 23 14 8 4 2 23 9 23 51
6 Dundela 31 13 7 11 43 49 16 7 5 4 27 25 15 6 2 7 16 24 -6 46
7 Ballyclare Comrades 30 11 7 12 52 48 16 6 4 6 30 17 14 5 3 6 22 31 4 40
8 H&W Welders 31 10 5 16 52 63 15 5 3 7 25 25 16 5 2 9 27 38 -11 35
9 Queen's University 31 11 1 19 59 69 16 8 1 7 38 32 15 3 0 12 21 37 -10 34
10 Dergview 30 8 5 17 38 54 14 7 1 6 23 21 16 1 4 11 15 33 -16 29
11 PSNI 30 7 2 21 40 98 14 3 0 11 18 46 16 4 2 10 22 52 -58 23
12 Knockbreda 30 6 4 20 33 85 14 1 3 10 14 43 16 5 1 10 19 42 -52 22