Crucial clash in the "wrong" end of the Premiership, with both Dungannon Swifts and Glenavon enduring more concern than joy. This fixture is a classic "six-pointer" with the home side positioned 10th and the visitors in 9th place.
- Dungannon Swifts have the most conceded goals (39) 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.
Dungannon Swifts form and stats
With 2 Premiership wins, 0 draws and 5 defeats from their home games, Dungannon Swifts are certainly not brimming with confidence.
Times are rough for the home team, having gone 180 minutes without scoring a league goal. D. McBrien was the last player to find the net.
In their previous game, the manager D. Shiels led his Dungannon to a defeat in the Premiership match away at Glentoran. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Stangmore Park.
Before that game, the home loss against Crusaders with the scoreline 0-2.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Dungannon as they are travelling to their away game against Carrick Rangers in the Premiership. That match is four days after this one.
Dungannon have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Stangmore Park with 11 goals in 7 league matches. As for conceded goals, Dungannon's unpleasant statistic is 19 goals surrendered.
Glenavon form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Premiership travels is 2 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats. When Glenavon is visiting a side on the bottom half, they have won 2 of 3 matches. Glenavon, Warrenpoint Town and Portadown is teams we like to compare Dungannon Swifts with.
Glenavon failed to get anything from their last game, a Premiership home match vs Linfield (placed 3rd) that ended with defeat 0-3. Glenavon did not look prepared in the first half against Linfield and lost the game during the first 45 minutes. They need to evaluate their pre-match routine before this one.
Preceding that game was the away victory against Warrenpoint Town with the score of 3-0.A new game in only four days for Glenavon, the Premiership home match versus Crusaders. Busy days.
The Glenavon manager G. Hamilton has got the team scoring on the road, with 14 away goals in 7 league matches. 8 goals have been conceded by Glenavon in these games. When Glenavon is visiting a side on the bottom half, 2 of 3 matches have ended with three or more goals. These are matches against Glenavon, Warrenpoint Town and Portadown.
Head 2 Head
It's not the first time these two sides meet this season, as the history books show this recent fixture: Glenavon - Dungannon 4-2. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: one - three - six (Dungannon wins - draws - Glenavon wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Fitzpatrick 7 goals |  R. Mayse 5 goals | J. McCready 4 goals |
Dungannon Swifts missing players
Glenavon missing players
| Dungannon Swifts | Glenavon | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 3 | 7 | 14 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 11 | 5 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 20 | 11 | 4 | Scored | S | 10 | 14 | 19 |
| 39 | 19 | 2 | Conceded | C | 2 | 8 | 21 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 86% | 86% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 86% | 71% |
| 79% | 71% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 57% | 57% |
| 57% | 71% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 29% | 29% |
| 50% | 57% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 29% | 21% |
| 50% | 57% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 71% | 50% |
| 7% | 14% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 29% | 21% |
| 43% | 29% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 14% | 43% |
| 3.4 | 3.7 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.7 | 4.2 | 5 |
| 5.2 | 5.3 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.3 | 5.2 | 7 |
| 2.4 | 2.7 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 2.2 | 2.1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 10.1 | 10.7 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 8 | 7.3 |
| 3.9 | 4.3 | 7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.7 | 4.5 | 3.2 |
| 37% | 37% | 57% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 59% | 44% | 44% |
| 11.3 | 12.1 | 4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 4.7 | 7.8 | 8.9 |
| 5.4 | 6.1 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 1.3 | 2.7 | 3.2 |
- All of Dungannon Swifts's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Dungannon Swifts have the fewest matches under the total-line (4) in Premiership
- Dungannon Swifts have the most conceded goals (39) in Premiership
- Dungannon Swifts 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 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 26 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 15 | 33 |
| 2 | Glentoran | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 29 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 12 | 30 |
| 3 | Linfield | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 26 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 19 | 29 |
| 4 | Coleraine | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 28 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 18 | 29 |
| 5 | Larne | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 28 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 28 |
| 6 | Crusaders | 14 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 20 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 25 |
| 7 | Carrick Rangers | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 10 | -7 | 18 |
| 8 | Ballymena United | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 13 | 24 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 15 | -11 | 16 |
| 9 | Glenavon | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 8 | -2 | 13 |
| 10 | Dungannon Swifts | 14 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 20 | 39 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 20 | -19 | 9 |
| 11 | Portadown | 15 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 35 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 19 | -18 | 8 |
| 12 | Warrenpoint Town | 14 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 12 | 37 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 27 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 10 | -25 | 6 |