The home fans are expecting three points in this fixture, as the home advantage should be put to good use versus a struggling visitor. Cliftonville are in the 5th position while the guesting Dungannon Swifts worry at 10th.
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 Cliftonville and Dungannon Swifts.
This pitch has artifical turf, which is not Dungannon Swifts's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on artifical turf Dungannon Swifts have performed like this: Played six matches resulting in 0 wins, 2 draws and 4 defeats with the goal stats 2-16 (scored/conceded).
Cliftonville form and stats
27 points is a decent return from 13 Premiership games here at Solitude for Cliftonville. The data says 9 wins, 0 draws and 4 losses.
A nice win for Cliftonville last time playing, versus Carrick Rangers. That was also a home game and the match ended 3-1 with C. McMenamin (3) scoring for the victors. Heartbreak before that as Cliftonville lost 0-1 at Coleraine's place.
What a game it was for C. McMenamin when beating Carrick Rangers, applying the finishing touch to three goals!
The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Cliftonville home games with this odds we find three games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in three wins, zero draws and zero defeats. Looking at the victories, two matches were won by at least two goals.
The Cliftonville fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 21 goals in 13 league matches. Cliftonville are not conceding a lot of goals here at Solitude in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 9 from 13 matches.
Dungannon Swifts form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Dungannon Swifts, who have the most conceded goals (78) in Premiership, so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 1-2-10 (win-draw-lose). Travelling has not been lucrative for the away team as they have returned home without a win in twelve away games in a row.
Dungannon Swifts play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 1-2 to Linfield (placed 1st). Prior to that match, a home win 2-0 against Institute.
We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Dungannon Swifts played away with similar odds. This revealed four games. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, one were draw and the home team won as expected three times.
The visitors have scored 10 goals from 13 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Dungannon Swifts can't defend away. 41 goals have been scored by the opposition in 13 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 teams have played each other before this season, with the result Cliftonville - Dungannon Swifts 5-0 entered in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Cliftonville six wins, three draws and Dungannon Swifts one victory. As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Gormley 16 goals |  C. McMenamin 11 goals |  R. Curran 4 goals |
Cliftonville missing players
Dungannon Swifts missing players
| Cliftonville | Dungannon Swifts | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 27 | 13 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 13 | 27 |
| 17 | 9 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 10 | 17 |
| 44 | 21 | 8 | Scored | S | 2 | 10 | 30 |
| 20 | 9 | 1 | Conceded | C | 8 | 41 | 78 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 85% | 93% |
| 59% | 54% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 77% | 85% |
| 44% | 38% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 77% | 74% |
| 22% | 31% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 62% | 59% |
| 7% | 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 67% | 62% | 41% |
| 37% | 23% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 38% | 52% |
| 41% | 54% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 15% | 11% |
| 22% | 23% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 62% | 44% |
| 5.4 | 5.8 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 2.6 | 2.4 |
| 3.8 | 3.1 | 1.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 5.8 | 4.6 |
| 1.5 | 1.2 | 0.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 2.1 | 1.8 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 234 | 99 | 25 | Total Shots | T S | 6 | 79 | 109 |
| 116 | 49 | 14 | Shots on Target | S O | 2 | 36 | 50 |
| 38% | 43% | 57% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 22% | 26% |
- Cliftonville has the fewest conceded goals (20)
- Cliftonville has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (6)
- Cliftonville has the fewest dropped points from leading position (3)
- Cliftonville has the most matches under the total-line (16)
- Cliftonville have created more than twice as many corners as Dungannon Swifts.
- Cliftonville have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Cliftonville have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Dungannon Swifts have scored away.
- Cliftonville haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Dungannon Swifts has the fewest points (5) away
- Dungannon Swifts has the most conceded goals (78)
- Dungannon Swifts has the most conceded goals in the second half (45)
- Dungannon Swifts have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Dungannon Swifts have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Dungannon Swifts have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than 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 | Linfield | 27 | 18 | 3 | 6 | 59 | 22 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 40 | 9 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 19 | 13 | 37 | 57 |
| 2 | Glentoran | 27 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 58 | 28 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 34 | 10 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 24 | 18 | 30 | 56 |
| 3 | Crusaders | 27 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 63 | 23 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 33 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 30 | 11 | 40 | 55 |
| 4 | Coleraine | 27 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 55 | 23 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 27 | 9 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 28 | 14 | 32 | 53 |
| 5 | Cliftonville | 27 | 17 | 2 | 8 | 44 | 20 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 21 | 9 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 11 | 24 | 53 |
| 6 | Larne | 27 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 51 | 29 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 30 | 15 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 14 | 22 | 44 |
| 7 | Glenavon | 27 | 9 | 4 | 14 | 41 | 65 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 23 | 17 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 18 | 48 | -24 | 31 |
| 8 | Ballymena United | 27 | 8 | 5 | 14 | 42 | 46 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 22 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 23 | 24 | -4 | 29 |
| 9 | Carrick Rangers | 27 | 9 | 1 | 17 | 31 | 43 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 16 | 21 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 15 | 22 | -12 | 28 |
| 10 | Dungannon Swifts | 27 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 30 | 78 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 20 | 37 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 41 | -48 | 22 |
| 11 | Warrenpoint Town | 27 | 5 | 1 | 21 | 19 | 76 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 12 | 36 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 40 | -57 | 16 |
| 12 | Institute | 27 | 2 | 8 | 17 | 20 | 60 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 33 | 14 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 27 | -40 | 14 |