Victory alone will suffice for the Cliftonville club members in this Solitude battle with Portadown, as they have a robust lead on the away side in the Premiership table.
- Cliftonville have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Premiership
- Portadown have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
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 - 0 - 1 with 0-5. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Portadown when playing on artifical turf like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Portadown play their home games on grass so that's why we provide these numbers.
Cliftonville form and stats
Cliftonville have been outstanding at home so far in the Premiership with 6 wins, 0 draws and only 0 losses. Cliftonville has won so many consecutive home games (six in a row) that they struggle to remember the last time points were lost here at Solitude. We remember; it was Carrick Rangers.
The Cliftonville supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Glenavon in Premiership and win 2-1.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Ards and winning 4-1.The match schedule is unforgiving for Cliftonville as they have a new game in only four days, a Premiership match thankfully also at home. Dungannon Swifts are visiting.
A decent goal production from Cliftonville in their home games so far, with 10 goals from 6 league matches. Cliftonville have only conceded 4 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Portadown form and stats
1 win, 1 draw and 3 losses. That’s the product of Portadown playing as the away team in the Premiership this season.
There might be some fixture complaints from Portadown as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, the Premiership match against Coleraine (0-2).
Before that, Portadown secured a home win against Ballinamallard United with the score 1-0.The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Linfield in just four days.
Portadown have scored 5 goals on their travels this season, from 5 away games in the league. Portadown have conceded 11 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's nine Cliftonville victories, one draw and zero Portadown wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Gormley 4 goals |  L. Bonis 3 goals | J. Harney 2 goals |
Cliftonville missing players
Portadown missing players
| Cliftonville | Portadown | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | 6 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 15 | 10 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 11 |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 11 | 23 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 70% | 67% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 80% | 80% |
| 50% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 60% | 60% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 60% | 60% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 40% |
| 70% | 67% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 40% | 60% |
| 20% | 33% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 60% | 40% |
| 5 | 5.2 | 10 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 5.6 | 5.1 |
| 3.3 | 1.8 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 11 | 5.4 | 6.3 |
| 0.7 | 0.8 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.8 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 9.2 | 9.5 | 15 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6 | 6.8 | 7.4 |
| 4.2 | 5.2 | 9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 2.6 | 2.8 |
| 36% | 32% | 11% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 38% | 39% |
- 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 at home.
- 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 (18) at home in Premiership
- Cliftonville have the most points from losing position (11) 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.
- Portadown have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Portadown have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Portadown 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 | Cliftonville | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 23 |
| 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 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 20 |
| 5 | Glentoran | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 17 |
| 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 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 23 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | -12 | 5 |
| 12 | Warrenpoint Town | 10 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 27 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | -20 | 3 |