Portadown are banking on their home advantage to support them to win this meeting with Ballymena United. Who is the winner at Shamrock Park?
- Portadown have the fewest scored goals (7) in Premiership
- Ballymena United have scored more than double the goals of Portadown.
This could be an appealing game with lots of action and bustle as both sides are well revitalized since they last played a game. Get this show on the road!
Portadown form and stats
With 0 Premiership wins, 1 draw and 8 defeats from their home games, Portadown are certainly not brimming with confidence. With nine home Premiership games in a row without a win, the Portadown fans could feel they are not getting value for their money.
It's back home for Portadown, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Newry City AFC away with the result 3-1. Jenkins, Moorhouse and Upton found the net in that victory. This was their first victory after 17 consecutive league games not winning!
Ahead of that match, Portadown lost 0-2 at home to Glentoran.It should be added that a look at the 10 most recent league fixtures reveals that 8 of them qualified as a both teams to score: NO result (only one or none of the sides scored a goal).
The lack of attacking qualities in Portadown means that they have only scored {3 goals} in 9 league home games, less than half a goal per match. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Portadown have conceded 22 goals in these home games, a significant number.
Ballymena United form and stats
Playing away, Ballymena United have won 3 games, drawn 1 and suffered 4 defeats in the Premiership this season. Ballymena United has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.
Nelson, Kelly and McDaid (2) scored in Ballymena United's previous match, the home game against Cliftonville that ended 4-1.
Before that one, a nice away victory 2-0 at Carrick Rangers.Ballymena have scored 10 goals on their travels this season, from 8 away games in the league. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. As for defending, Ballymena United rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 13 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
This is what happened when the contenders played each other previously this season; Ballymena United - Portadown 2-0. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: one - one - eight (Portadown wins - draws - Ballymena United wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  D. McDaid 6 goals |  J. Jenkins 3 goals | K. Nelson 3 goals |
Portadown missing players
Ballymena United missing players
| Portadown | Ballymena United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 9 | 3 | Played | P | 4 | 8 | 17 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 16 | 8 | 3 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Scored | S | 7 | 10 | 24 |
| 45 | 22 | 7 | Conceded | C | 7 | 13 | 26 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 94% | 89% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 88% | 88% |
| 56% | 56% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 50% | 59% |
| 33% | 22% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 25% | 29% |
| 6% | 11% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 25% | 18% |
| 28% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 38% | 41% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 38% | 29% |
| 72% | 67% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 29% |
| 4.1 | 4.9 | 4.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 3.5 | 3.8 |
| 6.1 | 7.1 | 9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 4.9 | 6.6 |
| 2.4 | 2.1 | 3.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 1.4 | 1.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 6.2 | 7.6 | 6.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.8 | 6.4 | 6.5 |
| 2.3 | 2.8 | 2.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 3 | 3 |
| 18% | 14% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 47% | 42% | 47% |
| 11.8 | 13 | 13 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.5 | 12.1 | 10.5 |
| 6.2 | 6.8 | 5.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.2 | 5.9 | 4.9 |
- Ballymena United have scored more than double the goals of Portadown.
- Ballymena United 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 have the fewest clean sheets (0) at home in Premiership
- Portadown have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Premiership
- Portadown have the fewest points (1) at home in Premiership
- Portadown have the fewest scored goals (3) at home in Premiership
- Portadown have the fewest scored goals (7) in Premiership
- Portadown have the fewest scored goals in the first half (3) in Premiership
- Portadown have the most conceded goals (22) at home in Premiership
- Portadown have the most conceded goals (45) in Premiership
- Portadown have the most conceded goals in the second half (28) in Premiership
- Portadown have the the worst goal difference (-19) at home in Premiership
- Portadown have the the worst goal difference (-38) in Premiership
- Portadown have yet to win a game 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 | 18 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 36 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 9 | 23 | 41 |
| 2 | Crusaders | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 38 | 22 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 36 |
| 3 | Linfield | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 32 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 5 | 16 | 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 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 30 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 7 | 13 | 30 |
| 7 | Ballymena United | 17 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 24 | 26 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 13 | -2 | 23 |
| 8 | Carrick Rangers | 18 | 7 | 1 | 10 | 26 | 35 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 17 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 22 | -9 | 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 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 13 | 20 | 38 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 22 | -18 | 15 |
| 11 | Dungannon Swifts | 18 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 9 | 43 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 29 | -34 | 7 |
| 12 | Portadown | 18 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 45 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 22 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 23 | -38 | 4 |
