The visiting Loughgall side should be favourites in this visit to H&W Welders, as the away team holds a 18 point advantage from their 15 league games this season.
Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!
H&W Welders form and stats
H&W Welders have collected 11 points from their Championship home games so far after 3-2-2.
H&W Welders's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-2 versus Dundela (placed 4th). A strong away win before that one, visiting Dergview and winning 3-0.
A decent goal production from H&W Welders in their home games so far, with 11 goals from 7 league matches. 10 goals have been conceded.
Loughgall form and stats
Loughgall, who have the most scored goals (38) in Championship, have been very strong on the road so far with a massive 21 points collected from 7 Championship games. 7 wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats is the record so far. Long winning streaks away are a rare occurrence in football, which only makes Loughgall's record of seven away victories in a row even more impressive. They last lost points away in the Newry City AFC game.
Loughgall won their last game, 6-0 versus PSNI played at home. The game before that, was lost at home, a 1-4 defeat against Ballyclare Comrades.
As mentioned above, Loughgall was the only team on the pitch versus PSNI in their previous game, winning 6-0. This could be a tougher task.
Loughgall are scoring goals for fun in their league games away this season, having clocked up more than three goals per game on average (24 goals from 7 away games). Loughgall have conceded 11 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting was Loughgall - H&W Welders 4-1, played this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): H&W Welders 4 wins, 2 draws and Loughgall 4 victories. As for goals, 5 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 5 games had two or less.H&W Welders missing players
Loughgall missing players
| H&W Welders | Loughgall | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs
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Statistics | Stat | vs
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Away | Total |
| 15 | 7 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 7 | 15 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | 2 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 21 | 11 | 3 | Scored | S | 8 | 24 | 38 |
| 34 | 10 | 5 | Conceded | C | 3 | 11 | 19 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 80% |
| 93% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 80% |
| 73% | 71% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 80% |
| 47% | 29% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 71% | 53% |
| 27% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 43% | 40% |
| 60% | 71% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 86% | 67% |
| 13% | 14% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 14% | 33% |
| 27% | 14% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 0.3 | 0 | 0 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 0 | 0.5 | 0.7 |
| 0.5 | 0 | 0 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 0 | 1.3 | 0.8 |
| 0.3 | 0 | 0 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- All of H&W Welders's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Loughgall's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- H&W Welders have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- H&W Welders haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Loughgall have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Loughgall have created more than twice as many corners as H&W Welders.
- Loughgall have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Loughgall have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
- Loughgall have scored at least twice as many goals away as H&W Welders have scored home.
- Loughgall have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Loughgall have won all their away games so far.
- Loughgall have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Loughgall haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| 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 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 33 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 23 | 33 |
| 2 | Loughgall | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 38 | 19 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 11 | 19 | 33 |
| 3 | Ballinamallard United | 15 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 30 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 18 | 31 |
| 4 | Dundela | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 26 | 22 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 25 |
| 5 | Newry City AFC | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 33 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 13 | 24 |
| 6 | Ards | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 22 | 23 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 13 | -1 | 22 |
| 7 | Queen's University | 15 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 32 | 34 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 22 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 17 | -2 | 19 |
| 8 | Ballyclare Comrades | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 29 | 30 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 23 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 19 | -1 | 18 |
| 9 | H&W Welders | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 21 | 34 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 24 | -13 | 15 |
| 10 | Dergview | 15 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 19 | 25 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 15 | -6 | 14 |
| 11 | PSNI | 15 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 18 | 46 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 22 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 24 | -28 | 14 |
| 12 | Knockbreda | 15 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 39 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 23 | -26 | 6 |