H&W Welders will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 19 points behind Ballinamallard United.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
H&W Welders form and stats
Overall Championship stats at home this season for H&W Welders are 5-3-5 (wins-draw-losses).
H&W Welders drew their last game, also a home match. Dergview (placed 10th) was the opponent, 1-1 the score. Before that, H&W Welders had a home game versus PSNI which ended with a victory 3-1.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for H&W Welders, as the Championship home game vs Ards is only three days away.
A decent goal production from H&W Welders in their home games so far, with 23 goals from 13 league matches. H&W Welders have conceded 21 from these games.
Ballinamallard United form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Championship travels is 8 wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats.
Prior to that match, the Ballinamallard United manager H. McConkey faced defeat when travelling to Newry City AFC and losing 0-1.
As you can tell from the result, the match against PSNI was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 10 goals, will the fun continue today?
A quick return to home after this game, as Ballinamallard United are hosting Dundela in the Championship only three days away.
With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Ballinamallard United are regular goalscorers on their travels. As opposed to that, Ballinamallard United have seen the ball go into their own net 14 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Ballinamallard United - H&W Welders 4-2. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two H&W Welders victories, two draws and six Ballinamallard United wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.H&W Welders missing players
Ballinamallard United missing players
| H&W Welders | Ballinamallard United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 28 | 13 | 4 | Played | P | 3 | 13 | 28 |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | Won | W | 1 | 8 | 17 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 13 | 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 49 | 23 | 7 | Scored | S | 6 | 27 | 68 |
| 56 | 21 | 7 | Conceded | C | 5 | 14 | 33 |
| 96% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 89% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 85% | 86% |
| 75% | 77% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 54% | 64% |
| 46% | 38% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 46% | 50% |
| 32% | 15% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 23% | 32% |
| 68% | 77% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 38% | 46% |
| 14% | 15% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 38% | 36% |
| 21% | 8% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 23% | 18% |
| 1.1 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 1.8 | 1.5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 0.8 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | 0 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 9 | 23 | 63 |
| 13 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 6 | 11 | 26 |
| 192% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 67% | 136% | 112% |
- All of H&W Welders's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Ballinamallard United has the most scored goals in the first half (25)
- Ballinamallard United have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Ballinamallard United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- H&W Welders has the most dropped points from leading position (18)
- H&W Welders have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- H&W Welders have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- H&W Welders haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 | 29 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 70 | 28 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 40 | 8 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 30 | 20 | 42 | 63 |
| 2 | Ballinamallard United | 28 | 17 | 3 | 8 | 68 | 33 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 41 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 27 | 14 | 35 | 54 |
| 3 | Loughgall | 28 | 16 | 5 | 7 | 58 | 38 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 14 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 39 | 24 | 20 | 53 |
| 4 | Newry City AFC | 27 | 14 | 5 | 8 | 53 | 28 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 32 | 20 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 8 | 25 | 47 |
| 5 | Ards | 29 | 13 | 7 | 9 | 61 | 42 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 32 | 24 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 29 | 18 | 19 | 46 |
| 6 | Dundela | 28 | 12 | 6 | 10 | 39 | 46 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 27 | 25 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 21 | -7 | 42 |
| 7 | H&W Welders | 28 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 49 | 56 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 23 | 21 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 26 | 35 | -7 | 35 |
| 8 | Ballyclare Comrades | 28 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 48 | 48 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 30 | 17 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 31 | 0 | 34 |
| 9 | Queen's University | 28 | 11 | 1 | 16 | 56 | 62 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 37 | 30 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 19 | 32 | -6 | 34 |
| 10 | Dergview | 26 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 31 | 48 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 31 | -17 | 23 |
| 11 | PSNI | 27 | 7 | 2 | 18 | 36 | 88 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 16 | 40 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 20 | 48 | -52 | 23 |
| 12 | Knockbreda | 28 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 29 | 81 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 39 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 19 | 42 | -52 | 19 |