Can Glentoran beat Portadown in The Oval clash?

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Competition: Northern Ireland Premiership
Competition: Sat 02.January
Match begins: 17:30 (UTC)
Venue: The Oval (26556 seats)

This match features two teams living in the basement of the Premiership, Glentoran holding 9th place and Portadown lying 10th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.

Insights:
  • Glentoran have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Portadown has the most conceded goals (17) away 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.

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Glentoran form and stats

Overall Premiership stats at home this season for Glentoran are 2-3-0 (wins-draw-losses).

Glentoran shared the glory with Ballymena United in their last match, an away game that ended all square 1-1. The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 0-0 versus Warrenpoint Town.

Goals decide football matches and Glentoran are scoring many of them at home; 12 on target from 5 league matches. Defensively Glentoran have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (2 in 5 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Portadown form and stats

2 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses. That’s the product of Portadown, who have the most conceded goals (17) away in Premiership, playing as the away team in the Premiership this season.

Two away games in a row for Portadown, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-5 versus Crusaders in the Premiership. Preceding that game was the away victory against Dungannon Swifts with the score of 3-0.

As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Crusaders was particularly ugly (0-5). The humiliation is still top of mind.

Portadown has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 9 goals from 6 games. Portadown are struggling defensively in their away games, having conceded 9 goals in these matches.

Head 2 Head

Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: five wins for Glentoran, three draws and two wins for Portadown. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.

Glentoran missing players

Portadown missing players

Glentoran Portadown
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
10 5 2 Played P 2 6 9
2 2 2 Won W 1 2 2
5 3 0 Drew D 0 1 2
3 0 0 Lost L 1 3 5
17 12 11 Scored S 4 9 10
11 2 1 Conceded C 4 17 22
80% 60% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 89%
70% 60% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 89%
40% 40% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 83% 78%
30% 40% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 67% 44%
30% 40% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 67% 44%
50% 40% 50% BTTS BTTS 50% 50% 44%
30% 60% 50% Clean Sheets C S 50% 17% 22%
40% 40% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 44%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.8 1.6 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.7 2.1
3 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
10.3 11.2 18 Shots (avg) S ( 6 4.3 4.7
5.5 6.2 11.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 2.8 2.3
31% 39% 48% Goal Efficiency G E 57% 53% 48%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • All of Portadown's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Glentoran have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Glentoran have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Portadown has the most conceded goals (17) away in Premiership
  • Portadown have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Portadown have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Portadown haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  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 10 8 2 0 18 5 6 6 0 0 13 3 4 2 2 0 5 2 13 26
2 Linfield 11 8 1 2 27 13 6 5 1 0 18 5 5 3 0 2 9 8 14 25
3 Crusaders 10 7 0 3 20 9 5 5 0 0 12 1 5 2 0 3 8 8 11 21
4 Ballymena United 11 5 2 4 18 13 6 2 1 3 8 10 5 3 1 1 10 3 5 17
5 Cliftonville 11 4 1 6 14 13 6 4 0 2 12 6 5 0 1 4 2 7 1 13
6 Glenavon 10 3 4 3 16 16 5 1 3 1 10 10 5 2 1 2 6 6 0 13
7 Coleraine 10 4 1 5 13 14 5 2 0 3 4 7 5 2 1 2 9 7 -1 13
8 Warrenpoint Town 11 3 3 5 11 14 5 1 2 2 5 6 6 2 1 3 6 8 -3 12
9 Glentoran 10 2 5 3 17 11 5 2 3 0 12 2 5 0 2 3 5 9 6 11
10 Portadown 9 2 2 5 10 22 3 0 1 2 1 5 6 2 1 3 9 17 -12 8
11 Dungannon Swifts 11 2 2 7 7 26 5 2 0 3 5 11 6 0 2 4 2 15 -19 8
12 Carrick Rangers 8 1 1 6 7 22 4 1 1 2 6 6 4 0 0 4 1 16 -15 4