This is a vital battle in the lower part of the Premiership, with both Portadown and Ballymena United enduring more angst than pleasure. This match is a real "six-pointer" with the hosts positioned 10th and the visitors in 9th place.
- Portadown have yet to win a game at home.
- Ballymena United have the most conceded goals (11) away in Premiership
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Irish League Cup. That game was also an away game, at Crusaders. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
Portadown form and stats
0-1-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Premiership numbers at home for Portadown so far this season. Three consecutive losses here at Shamrock Park is hard to swallow for the home team. Both players, staff and the home crowd are desperate to get something from this match.
A good away victory last time out for Portadown, who won 3-2 against Warrenpoint Town (placed 12th). The game against Warrenpoint Town had lots of late drama as Portadown came back from being down 0-2 and finally secured the victory through S. McLeod's goal in the 85th minute. The victory against Warrenpoint Town came after S. McLeod's winning goal. The Portadown manager M. Tipton was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 59th minute.
Preceding that match was a defeat to Dungannon Swifts (1-4).Portadown have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Shamrock Park with 6 goals in 4 league matches. Defensively there's plenty of potential for improvement as Portadown have allowed the opposition to score 11 goals here at Shamrock Park.
Ballymena United form and stats
Ballymena United have been very modest guests so far, leaving with zero points in all their 4 away matches played so far in the Premiership. Bitter travels for Ballymena as they have lost four games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Warrenpoint Town match.
Ballymena play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 3-2 victory visiting Crusaders (after extra-time) (placed 5th).
A 0-1 loss hosting Crusaders before that.The attacking power of Ballymena United when travelling is not overwhelming with 3 goals scored from 4 league matches away. People interested in "over 2,5 goals" betting will like to know that Ballymena concede an average of more than 2,5 goals per away match all on their own.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Portadown one win, one draw and Ballymena United eight victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  S. McLeod 2 goals | L. Bonis 2 goals | R. Croskery 2 goals |
Portadown missing players
Ballymena United missing players
| Portadown | Ballymena United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 9 | 6 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 18 | 11 | 4 | Conceded | C | 2 | 11 | 16 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 86% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 86% |
| 71% | 75% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 71% |
| 71% | 75% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 29% |
| 57% | 75% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 25% | 29% |
| 71% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 75% | 71% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 29% |
| 5.6 | 4.5 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 3.5 | 3.9 |
| 5.9 | 7.5 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 5.8 | 5.3 |
| 2.1 | 2.2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.8 | 1.4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 8.1 | 8.5 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7 | 4.5 | 6.3 |
| 3.3 | 3.5 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
| 39% | 43% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 50% | 47% |
- All of Ballymena United's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- All of Portadown's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Ballymena United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Ballymena United have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Ballymena United have lost all their away matches so far.
- Ballymena United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Ballymena United have the most conceded goals (11) away in Premiership
- Ballymena United have the the worst goal difference (-8) away in Premiership
- Ballymena United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Portadown have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Portadown have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Portadown have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Portadown have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- 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 | Cliftonville | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 17 |
| 2 | Larne | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 16 |
| 3 | Linfield | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 15 |
| 4 | Coleraine | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 10 | 14 |
| 5 | Crusaders | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 13 |
| 6 | Carrick Rangers | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 13 |
| 7 | Glentoran | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 12 |
| 8 | Glenavon | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 3 | -1 | 7 |
| 9 | Ballymena United | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 11 | -8 | 4 |
| 10 | Portadown | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -9 | 4 |
| 11 | Dungannon Swifts | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | -8 | 3 |
| 12 | Warrenpoint Town | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | -13 | 3 |