The league table in Championship tells a story about these teams so far, with Portadown leading Queen's University by 28 points. Match preview to follow:
Portadown and Queen's University should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Portadown form and stats
Portadown, who have the most clean sheets (13) in Championship, have performed here at Shamrock Park this season with 10 wins from 13 Championship matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 2 games and lost 1. The Portadown fans aren't used to losing here at Shamrock Park and will expect new points from this game. Portadown has played eleven games in a row here without a defeat.
Prior to that, an away loss at Dergview.
As indicated by the result mentioned above, Portadown played a great game against Knockbreda and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.
Portadown are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (33 goals in 13 games). Portadown have only conceded 7 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Queen's University form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Queen's University so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 3-0-9 (win-draw-lose). Three has not been a lucky number for Queen's University as they have been defeated three times in a row since the Knockbreda match.
The manager P. Thompson was unhappy after their last game, a Championship match played at their home ground Queen's University Malone Playing Fields. Queen's University suffered a 2-5 loss to Loughgall (placed 2nd). A 0-2 defeat away at Ballyclare Comrades before that.
As you can tell from the result, the match against Loughgall was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 7 goals, will the fun continue today?
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The Championship trip to Dergview.
The travelling fans enjoy Queen's University's attacking play in away games, having scored 18 goals in 12 league matches away. Queen's University have conceded 25 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the Queen's University - Portadown 3-3 earlier this season. Portadown-Queen's University H2H statistics last three meetings regardless of arena: Portadown two wins, Queen's University zero wins, one draw. three of these three matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Portadown missing players
Queen's University missing players
| Portadown | Queen's University | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 27 | 13 | 4 | Played | P | 3 | 12 | 26 |
| 18 | 10 | 4 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 9 | 15 |
| 62 | 33 | 14 | Scored | S | 1 | 18 | 52 |
| 26 | 7 | 0 | Conceded | C | 3 | 25 | 54 |
| 93% | 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 81% | 85% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 33% | 83% | 88% |
| 63% | 62% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 67% | 77% |
| 41% | 38% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 58% | 65% |
| 30% | 23% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 25% | 35% |
| 48% | 31% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 58% | 65% |
| 48% | 62% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 17% | 12% |
| 11% | 15% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 25% | 23% |
| 1.3 | 1.2 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 2.2 | 2 |
| 1.7 | 2.2 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 2 | 1.5 |
| 0.7 | 0.4 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | 17 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 9 | 26 | 70 |
| 27 | 9 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 5 | 13 | 32 |
| 130% | 133% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 100% | 97% |
- Portadown has the fewest conceded goals (26)
- Portadown has the fewest conceded goals (7) at home
- Portadown has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (9)
- Portadown has the most clean sheets (13)
- Portadown has the most clean sheets (8) at home
- Portadown has the most points (32) at home
- Portadown has the most points from losing position (11)
- Portadown has the most scored goals in the second half (40)
- Portadown has the the best goal difference (+26) at home
- Portadown has the the best goal difference (+36)
- Portadown have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Queen's University has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0)
- Queen's University haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 27 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 62 | 26 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 33 | 7 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 29 | 19 | 36 | 59 |
| 2 | Loughgall | 27 | 16 | 4 | 7 | 57 | 37 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 14 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 38 | 23 | 20 | 52 |
| 3 | Ballinamallard United | 27 | 16 | 3 | 8 | 62 | 29 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 35 | 15 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 27 | 14 | 33 | 51 |
| 4 | Newry City AFC | 26 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 49 | 27 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 32 | 20 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 7 | 22 | 44 |
| 5 | Dundela | 26 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 37 | 38 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 26 | 20 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 18 | -1 | 42 |
| 6 | Ards | 26 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 52 | 39 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 28 | 22 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 24 | 17 | 13 | 39 |
| 7 | H&W Welders | 27 | 10 | 4 | 13 | 48 | 55 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 22 | 20 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 26 | 35 | -7 | 34 |
| 8 | Ballyclare Comrades | 26 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 47 | 46 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 29 | 15 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 31 | 1 | 33 |
| 9 | Queen's University | 26 | 10 | 1 | 15 | 52 | 54 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 34 | 29 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 18 | 25 | -2 | 31 |
| 10 | PSNI | 26 | 7 | 2 | 17 | 32 | 82 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 16 | 40 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 42 | -50 | 23 |
| 11 | Dergview | 24 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 29 | 44 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 27 | -15 | 22 |
| 12 | Knockbreda | 26 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 27 | 77 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 35 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 18 | 42 | -50 | 16 |