Can Ards beat Dungannon Swifts in Bangor Fuels Arena clash?

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Competition: Northern Ireland Premiership
Date: Tue 23.April
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Bangor Fuels Arena (1895 seats)

This match features two teams living in the basement of the Premiership, Ards holding 11th place and Dungannon Swifts lying 9th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Ards and Dungannon Swifts.

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Ards form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories so far this season. Ards have only managed 3 wins, 4 draws and 10 losses so far from their games here at Bangor Fuels Arena. Ards have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.

Happy days for Ards in their previous game, a Premiership match away at Institute that ended with a 1-0 victory. The points were shared before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus Glentoran.

There will be little rest for Ards after this match as they are travelling to Warrenpoint Town for a Premiership game in only four days.

Ards has scored 17 goals at home this season, in 17 matches. Ards have conceded 26 from these games.

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Dungannon Swifts form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Dungannon Swifts so far with only 11 points returning home. The records show 2-5-9 (win-draw-lose). Three might be a magic number, but there's been little wizardry in Dungannon Swifts's last three away games as they have all been lost.

Two away games in a row for Dungannon Swifts, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 3-5 versus Warrenpoint Town in the Premiership. Before that, Dungannon Swifts secured a home win against Institute with the score 2-1.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Dungannon Swifts manager K. Lindsay as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Newry City AFC.

Dungannon Swifts find the net in their away games, although not all the time. 17 goals from 16 away fixtures. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Dungannon Swifts have conceded 29 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Dungannon Swifts - Ards 0-3. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Ards won 2 games, 5 matches ended with a draw and Dungannon Swifts has 3 wins.

Top Goalscorers

P. McElroy
10 goals
D. Hughes
9 goals
M. Kelly
8 goals

Ards missing players

Dungannon Swifts missing players

Ards Dungannon Swifts
Total Home Statistic Away Total
36 18 Played 17 36
29 18 Scored 20 43
62 27 Conceded 34 64
92% 94% Over 0.5 94% 94%
72% 78% Over 1.5 82% 83%
47% 50% Over 2.5 65% 58%
31% 28% Over 3.5 29% 25%
8% 0% Over 4.5 18% 17%
42% 50% Both teams to score 71% 64%
17% 11% Clean Sheet 6% 11%
50% 44% Failed To Score 29% 31%
 
4.2 3.8 Corners For (avg) 4.2 4.5
5.9 5.7 Corners Against (avg) 4.6 4.9
2.2 2.1 Yellow Cards (avg) 1.1 1.4
4 2 Red Cards (total) 1 6
Key stats this season:
  • Dungannon Swifts is involved in more matches over 2.5 away, than home.
  • Ards is involved in more matches over 2.5 home, than away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Linfield 33 24 5 4 70 21 16 12 3 1 39 12 17 12 2 3 31 9 49 77
2 Ballymena United 33 21 5 7 74 42 16 11 3 2 38 18 17 10 2 5 36 24 32 68
3 Crusaders 33 20 4 9 65 44 16 11 2 3 33 20 17 9 2 6 32 24 21 64
4 Glenavon 33 17 9 7 60 40 17 9 4 4 32 20 16 8 5 3 28 20 20 60
5 Cliftonville 33 17 3 13 62 54 17 12 2 3 37 21 16 5 1 10 25 33 8 54
6 Coleraine 33 14 9 10 51 46 16 6 5 5 22 21 17 8 4 5 29 25 5 51
7 Glentoran 33 10 8 15 49 49 16 6 3 7 27 23 17 4 5 8 22 26 0 38
8 Institute 33 11 5 17 45 65 16 6 2 8 23 30 17 5 3 9 22 35 -20 38
9 Dungannon Swifts 33 9 9 15 37 56 17 7 4 6 20 27 16 2 5 9 17 29 -19 36
10 Warrenpoint Town 33 9 7 17 40 67 17 4 3 10 20 39 16 5 4 7 20 28 -27 34
11 Newry City 28 4 5 19 20 50 14 3 3 8 11 20 14 1 2 11 9 30 -30 17
11 Ards 33 4 7 22 27 58 17 3 4 10 17 26 16 1 3 12 10 32 -31 19
12 Newry City AFC 33 4 5 24 23 61 17 3 3 11 12 26 16 1 2 13 11 35 -38 17

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