A home victory is anticipated from this fixture if the league standings is to be believed. The Cliftonville followers are hoping that the difference between 4th and Portadown's 12th place in the table will be revealed on the grass.
- Cliftonville have not yet lost a game at home.
- Portadown have the fewest scored goals (5) in Premiership
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Cliftonville form and stats
17 points is a decent return from 7 Premiership games here at Solitude for Cliftonville. The data says 5 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses.
Cliftonville are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 1-4 away versus Ballymena United. Until that match this club had gone seven consecutive league rounds without a loss.
Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against Newry City AFC.It should be added that a glance at the 12 most recent league fixtures reveals that 9 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the teams scored).
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Cliftonville, as the Premiership home game vs Glentoran is only three days away.
Cliftonville can score goals in their home matches. After 7 league matches they have found the net 16 times. From these home matches, Cliftonville have conceded only 6 goals.
Portadown form and stats
The visitors are W0-D0-L9 on the road this term. That's in the Premiership. A depressing nine defeats in a row for Portadown in their away games. Unhappy days, as the last time they avoided a loss on the road was versus Linfield.
Impressive finishing secured the home win 1-0 against Ballymena United in their previous game. That win was so vital for this team, after a terrible period of 18 league rounds in a row not winning.
Prior to that match, the Portadown manager Currie faced defeat when travelling to Newry City AFC and losing 0-3.Portadown are huge outsiders in this game. Running a check in our games database we found 8 matches where they were as big outsiders as an away team. Results were 0 wins, 1 draw and 7 defeats. Of the defeats, 5 games were lost by at least two goals margin.
Highlight this: 10 of the last 11 league games featuring this team have ended with only one (or no) team scoring (Both Teams to Score NO in sports betting words).
Goals are few and far between in Portadown's away league games. Only {1 goals} from 9 travels. People interested in "over 2,5 goals" betting will like to know that Portadown concede an average of more than 2,5 goals per away match all on their own. Portadown has visited these top teams three times, and 3 of 3 has ended with 2 goals or more!
Head 2 Head
Cliftonville have put together a streak of 19 consecutive matches without defeat (17-2-0) when playing Portadown.The latest head to head meeting ended Portadown - Cliftonville 1-2, earlier this season.
Top Goalscorers
  R. Curran 11 goals | R. Hale 10 goals | J. Gormley 4 goals |
Cliftonville missing players
Portadown missing players
| Cliftonville | Portadown | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 17 | 7 | 4 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 19 |
| 11 | 5 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 3 | 9 | 17 |
| 30 | 16 | 12 | Scored | S | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 21 | 6 | 4 | Conceded | C | 10 | 25 | 47 |
| 88% | 86% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 71% | 71% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 89% |
| 59% | 57% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 56% | 53% |
| 47% | 57% | 75% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 33% | 26% |
| 24% | 29% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 5% |
| 47% | 43% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 11% | 21% |
| 47% | 57% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 5% |
| 18% | 14% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 89% | 74% |
| 4.9 | 5 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 1.3 | 3.4 | 4.2 |
| 3.6 | 2.9 | 3.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.7 | 5.2 | 6.2 |
| 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 2.7 | 2.3 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11.6 | 12.6 | 14 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 4.7 | 4.9 | 6.5 |
| 5.6 | 6.7 | 7.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.3 | 1.9 | 2.4 |
| 32% | 34% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 14% | 6% | 12% |
| 8.5 | 7 | 7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15 | 10.8 | 11.4 |
| 3.9 | 3.1 | 3.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 7.7 | 5.7 | 6.1 |
- All of Portadown's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Cliftonville have not yet lost a game at home.
- Cliftonville have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Cliftonville have scored more than double the goals of Portadown.
- Portadown have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Portadown have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Portadown have lost all their away matches so far.
- Portadown have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Portadown have the fewest scored goals (1) away in Premiership
- Portadown have the fewest scored goals (5) in Premiership
- Portadown have the fewest scored goals in the first half (4) in Premiership
- Portadown have the fewest scored goals in the second half (4) in Premiership
- Portadown have the most conceded goals (47) in Premiership
- Portadown have the most conceded goals in the second half (28) in Premiership
- Portadown have the the worst goal difference (-42) in Premiership
- Portadown have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- 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 | Larne | 19 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 38 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 9 | 25 | 44 |
| 2 | Linfield | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 32 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 5 | 16 | 36 |
| 3 | Crusaders | 19 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 38 | 24 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 14 | 36 |
| 4 | Cliftonville | 17 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 30 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 9 | 36 |
| 5 | Glentoran | 16 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 32 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 5 | 24 | 35 |
| 6 | Coleraine | 19 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 32 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 7 | 15 | 33 |
| 7 | Ballymena United | 18 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 24 | 27 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 14 | -3 | 23 |
| 8 | Carrick Rangers | 19 | 7 | 1 | 11 | 27 | 39 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 17 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 26 | -12 | 22 |
| 9 | Glenavon | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 31 | 31 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 0 | 20 |
| 10 | Newry City AFC | 19 | 6 | 0 | 13 | 22 | 37 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 24 | -15 | 18 |
| 11 | Dungannon Swifts | 19 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 13 | 44 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 15 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 29 | -31 | 10 |
| 12 | Portadown | 19 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 47 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 22 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 25 | -42 | 4 |
