Cliftonville - Dungannon Swifts. 1st place meets 10th place. Everything can happen - get a complete match preview here!
- Cliftonville have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Premiership
- Dungannon Swifts have the most conceded goals in the second half (16) in Premiership
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
0 - 1 - 2 with 1-9. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Dungannon Swifts when playing on artifical turf like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Dungannon Swifts play their home games on grass so that's why we provide these numbers.
Cliftonville form and stats
Cliftonville have been very solid at home in the Premiership so far, with 21 points collected from 7 matches (7-0-0). This has contributed greatly to their 1st position in the table. After failing to beat Carrick Rangers here at Solitude, Cliftonville has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with seven wins in a row.
The Cliftonville supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Portadown in Premiership and win 4-0. As mentioned above, Cliftonville "killed" Portadown in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency. What a game it was for J. Gormley when beating Portadown, applying the finishing touch to three goals!
Ahead of that match, Cliftonville won a home game hosting Glenavon (2-1).Cliftonville are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found eight matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won eight, drew zero and lost zero.
Cliftonville are traveling soon after this match as the Irish League Cup match at Portadown awaits in three days.
With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (14 in 7 games), Cliftonville's attacking play is working. Cliftonville are not conceding a lot of goals here at Solitude in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 7 matches.
Dungannon Swifts form and stats
The visitors are W1-D0-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Premiership. 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, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 2-3 versus Limavady United in the Irish League Cup.
It was a Premiership defeat before that one as the away game against Linfield wasn't a success with a 0-3 loss.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Dungannon played away with similar odds. This revealed six games. The visitors overcame the odds to win one time, zero were draws and the home team won as expected five times.
The Dungannon Swifts manager D. Shiels has got the team scoring on the road, with 9 away goals in 4 league matches. Dungannon can't defend away. 12 goals have been scored by the opposition in 4 matches, an average of more than three per game. You might want to look at the total goal statistics, which can be found on the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
The two teams in this fixture also faced each other before this match year: Dungannon Swifts - Cliftonville 1-3. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's seven Cliftonville victories, one draw and two Dungannon Swifts wins. Over/under statistics; eight of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Gormley 7 goals |  R. Mayse 5 goals | R. Curran 3 goals |
Cliftonville missing players
Dungannon Swifts missing players
| Cliftonville | Dungannon Swifts | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 8 | 7 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 19 | 14 | 5 | Scored | S | 0 | 9 | 16 |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Conceded | C | 3 | 12 | 27 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 73% | 71% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 55% | 71% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 89% |
| 18% | 14% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 75% | 78% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 75% | 67% |
| 64% | 57% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 75% | 67% |
| 27% | 43% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 11% |
| 9% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 25% | 22% |
| 4.5 | 4.4 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 1 | 4 | 3.4 |
| 3.2 | 1.9 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 9 | 6.2 | 5.8 |
| 0.8 | 1 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.2 | 2.4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9.2 | 9.4 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12 | 11 | 11.1 |
| 4.3 | 5.1 | 7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 4.8 | 4.6 |
| 40% | 39% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 47% | 39% |
| 7.7 | 6.4 | 3.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10 | 10.2 | 12.1 |
| 3.1 | 2.3 | 1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 5 | 6.3 |
- All of Dungannon Swifts's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Cliftonville have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Cliftonville have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Cliftonville have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Cliftonville have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Premiership
- Cliftonville have the most points (21) at home in Premiership
- Cliftonville have the most points from losing position (11) in Premiership
- Cliftonville have the most scored goals (14) at home in Premiership
- Cliftonville have the the best goal difference (+10) at home in Premiership
- Cliftonville have won all their matches at home so far.
- Cliftonville have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Cliftonville haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Dungannon Swifts have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Dungannon Swifts have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Dungannon Swifts have the fewest matches under the total-line (2) in Premiership
- Dungannon Swifts have the most conceded goals in the second half (16) in Premiership
- Dungannon Swifts haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
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| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Cliftonville | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 26 |
| 2 | Linfield | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 21 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 16 | 22 |
| 3 | Coleraine | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 14 | 21 |
| 4 | Larne | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 21 |
| 5 | Glentoran | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 18 |
| 6 | Crusaders | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 16 |
| 7 | Carrick Rangers | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -5 | 13 |
| 8 | Glenavon | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| 9 | Ballymena United | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 11 | -9 | 10 |
| 10 | Dungannon Swifts | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 16 | 27 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 12 | -11 | 6 |
| 11 | Portadown | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 27 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 15 | -16 | 5 |
| 12 | Warrenpoint Town | 10 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 27 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | -20 | 3 |