Portadown believe to get a lot of fans in for this game even though the season has been hard up to now with 6 points and a 11th place in the Premiership table. Opponents Carrick Rangers are in 7th place with 14 pts.
- Portadown have the fewest points (2) at home in Premiership
- Carrick Rangers have the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Premiership
The hosts Portadown saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the Irish League Cup. Thankfully the previous game, versus Cliftonville, was also a home game here at Shamrock Park. The away team is better rested.
Portadown form and stats
Portadown's struggle is real here at Shamrock Park with only 2 points collected from 6 Premiership games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 0-2-4.
Stress levels are on the rise for Portadown's attacking players as they have now played 279 minutes without scoring in a league game. L. Bonis was their last goal scorer.
The Portadown crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-2 to Cliftonville (after extra-time) here at Shamrock Park in a Irish League Cup match.
Before that, Portadown drew at home versus Linfield.Portadown are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 6 goals in 6 games. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Portadown with 12 goals conceded in these matches.
Carrick Rangers form and stats
1 win, 1 draw and 3 losses. That’s the product of Carrick Rangers playing as the away team in the Premiership this season. Carrick Rangers has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.
The attacking players of Carrick Rangers have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 360 minutes.
Carrick Rangers delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against Coleraine (placed 4th) in their previous match; a Premiership game.
The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-2 defeat against Glentoran.A new game in only three days for Carrick, the Premiership home match versus Crusaders. Busy days.
Carrick have scored 5 goals on their travels this season, from 5 away games in the league. In the opposite end, Carrick have conceded 8 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
The records show that this isn''t the first time these two sides face each other this season, as the results database show this recent game: Carrick Rangers - Portadown 1-0. Head to head statistics (for the prior ten meetings): Portadown won two games, one match ended in a draw and Carrick Rangers got seven wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / fiveTop Goalscorers
  L. Bonis 3 goals |  D. Kelly 3 goals | S. McLeod 2 goals |
Portadown missing players
Carrick Rangers missing players
| Portadown | Carrick Rangers | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 11 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 11 | 6 | 0 | Scored | S | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 27 | 12 | 1 | Conceded | C | 2 | 8 | 14 |
| 92% | 83% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 80% | 82% |
| 75% | 67% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 80% | 64% |
| 58% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 60% | 45% |
| 58% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 40% | 18% |
| 33% | 50% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 67% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 20% | 18% |
| 8% | 17% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 40% | 45% |
| 50% | 33% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 60% | 55% |
| 4.8 | 4.5 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 3 | 5.2 |
| 6.9 | 9.3 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2 | 4.8 | 4.8 |
| 2.1 | 2.2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 1.5 | 0.8 |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7.2 | 7.8 | 6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12 | 7.5 | 8.5 |
| 2.8 | 3 | 1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 2.5 | 3.3 |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 10% | 15% |
| 10.1 | 9.8 | 6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 16 | 10.5 | 9 |
| 5 | 5.2 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 5.2 | 4.2 |
- Carrick Rangers have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Carrick Rangers have the fewest matches over the total-line (2) in Premiership
- Carrick Rangers have the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Premiership
- Carrick Rangers have the fewest scored goals in the second half (3) in Premiership
- Carrick Rangers have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Portadown have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
- Portadown have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Portadown have the fewest points (2) at home in Premiership
- Portadown have yet to win a game at home.
| 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 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 29 |
| 2 | Larne | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 22 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 24 |
| 3 | Linfield | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 21 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 16 | 23 |
| 4 | Coleraine | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 14 | 22 |
| 5 | Glentoran | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 21 |
| 6 | Crusaders | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 16 |
| 7 | Carrick Rangers | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -5 | 14 |
| 8 | Ballymena United | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 11 | -8 | 13 |
| 9 | Glenavon | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 5 | -1 | 10 |
| 10 | Dungannon Swifts | 10 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 16 | 30 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 15 | -14 | 6 |
| 11 | Portadown | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 27 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 15 | -16 | 6 |
| 12 | Warrenpoint Town | 11 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 8 | 29 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 20 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 9 | -21 | 3 |