The league table in Premiership tells a story about these teams so far, with Linfield leading Portadown by 22 points. Match preview to follow:
- Linfield has the most scored goals (38) in Premiership
- Portadown have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
The visiting Portadown played their last game only three days ago, a Premiership match.
Linfield form and stats
6-1-0 is the performance here at Windsor Park so far in the Premiership, giving Linfield a total of 19 from their 7 games here. Outstanding results! It’s been three wins in a row for Linfield here at Windsor Park, hoping to make this one the fourth consecutive victory.
Linfield faced defeat in their previous match, away at Cliftonville (3-4). Before that game, the 6-0 home victory against Warrenpoint Town.
As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Linfield as they are travelling to their away game against Crusaders in the Premiership. That match is four days after this one.
With more than three goals on average, the attacking play of Linfield is on fire here. A stunning 24 from 7 league matches. Linfield are not conceding a lot of goals here at Windsor Park in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 5 from 7 matches.
Portadown form and stats
There's been little loot from Portadown's travels as they have only collected 7 points from 7 away games in the Premiership. Portadown only have 2 wins to counter their 4 defeats and 1 draw. Portadown seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Premiership home defeat versus Warrenpoint Town with 0-2 on the scoreboard. A 2-2 draw was the result before that, hosting Crusaders.
The schedule is very tough for Portadown now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Premiership game at Coleraine is waiting in only four days.
The visiting Portadown have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 10 goals from 7 games. Portadown are struggling defensively in their away games, having conceded 10 goals in these matches.
Head 2 Head
The two sides played each other earlier this season: Portadown - Linfield 1-2. Linfield-Portadown H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Linfield five wins, Portadown three wins, two draws. seven of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  A. Waterworth 11 goals | J. Stewart 6 goals | K. Millar 5 goals |
Linfield missing players
Portadown missing players
| Linfield | Portadown | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 7 | 3 | Played | P | 1 | 7 | 12 |
| 10 | 6 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 38 | 24 | 11 | Scored | S | 0 | 10 | 13 |
| 18 | 5 | 1 | Conceded | C | 5 | 19 | 28 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 79% | 71% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 86% | 75% |
| 50% | 57% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 57% | 42% |
| 36% | 43% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 100% | 57% | 33% |
| 64% | 43% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 57% | 50% |
| 36% | 57% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 14% | 17% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 29% | 42% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.1 | 0.9 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.7 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 10.1 | 10.7 | 11.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 1 | 4 | 4.4 |
| 4.8 | 5.4 | 6.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 2.7 | 2.3 |
| 57% | 63% | 55% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 53% | 46% |
- All of Linfield's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Portadown's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Linfield has the most dropped points from leading position (11) in Premiership
- Linfield has the most scored goals (24) at home in Premiership
- Linfield has the most scored goals (38) in Premiership
- Linfield has the most scored goals in the first half (12) in Premiership
- Linfield has the most scored goals in the second half (26) in Premiership
- Linfield has the the best goal difference (+19) at home in Premiership
- Linfield has the the best goal difference (+20) in Premiership
- Linfield have not yet lost a game at home.
- Linfield have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Linfield have scored in all their matches so far.
- Linfield have scored more than double the goals of Portadown.
- Linfield haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- 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 | Linfield | 14 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 38 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 20 | 31 |
| 2 | Larne | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 23 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 28 |
| 3 | Crusaders | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 32 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 27 |
| 4 | Coleraine | 14 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 22 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 25 |
| 5 | Ballymena United | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 8 | 23 |
| 6 | Cliftonville | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 23 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 21 |
| 7 | Glentoran | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 22 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 18 |
| 8 | Warrenpoint Town | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 24 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 18 | -11 | 15 |
| 9 | Glenavon | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | -1 | 14 |
| 10 | Portadown | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 28 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 19 | -15 | 9 |
| 11 | Dungannon Swifts | 13 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 30 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 17 | -22 | 8 |
| 12 | Carrick Rangers | 11 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 29 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 21 | -22 | 4 |