Premiership match prediction and preview for Portadown vs Carrick Rangers clash

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Competition: Northern Ireland Premiership
Competition: Sat 15.May
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Shamrock Park (5804 seats)

This match features two teams living in the basement of the Premiership, Portadown holding 9th place and Carrick Rangers lying 11th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.

Insights:
  • Portadown have the most dropped points from leading position (22) in Premiership
  • Carrick Rangers have the most conceded goals (77) in Premiership

Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!

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Portadown form and stats

With 4 Premiership wins, 3 draws and 10 defeats from their home games, Portadown are certainly not brimming with confidence.

Preceding that match was the home game against Warrenpoint Town that was lost 1-2.

Portadown are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 19 goals in 17 games. Portadown have conceded 26 from these games.

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Carrick Rangers form and stats

There's been little loot from Carrick Rangers's travels as they have only collected 9 points from 17 away games in the Premiership. Carrick Rangers, who have the most conceded goals (77) in Premiership, only have 2 wins to counter their 12 defeats and 3 draws.

Prior to that result Carrick won their away game at Dungannon Swifts. The scoreline was 2-0.

Carrick Rangers lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-4 beating and focus on this one.

There's been a serious shortage of goals from Carrick's away games in the league this season with only 8 goals from 17 matches. The opposition has been scoring high and low on Carrick's goalkeeper in away games this season, as they have let in 44 goals in 17 travels. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the Portadown - Carrick Rangers 2-0 earlier this season. Last ten meetings between the teams: Portadown won two, Carrick Rangers won seven and one draw. six games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

PortadownL. Bonis
L. Bonis
12 goals
Carrick RangersC. Loughran
C. Loughran
9 goals
PortadownA. Salley
A. Salley
7 goals

Portadown missing players

Carrick Rangers missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Portadown Carrick Rangers
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
35 18 3 Played P 3 18 35
8 4 1 Won W 2 3 5
6 3 0 Drew D 1 3 8
21 11 2 Lost L 0 12 22
42 20 2 Scored S 4 10 30
71 28 4 Conceded C 0 44 81
97% 94% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 94% 94%
89% 83% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 89% 89%
71% 67% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 44% 49%
34% 17% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 28% 37%
20% 6% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 22% 23%
63% 67% 33% BTTS BTTS 0% 22% 43%
14% 17% 33% Clean Sheets C S 100% 17% 11%
26% 22% 33% Failed to Score F T 33% 67% 51%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.5 1.6 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.3 1.6 1.7
4 3 0 Red cards R C 1 3 5
 
6 6.9 7.3 Shots (avg) S ( 6.3 5.2 5.4
2.9 3.3 4.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.3 2.3 2.5
41% 33% 15% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 24% 34%
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Carrick Rangers have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Carrick Rangers have the fewest dropped points from leading position (7) in Premiership
  • Carrick Rangers have the most conceded goals (44) away in Premiership
  • Carrick Rangers have the most conceded goals (77) in Premiership
  • Carrick Rangers have the most conceded goals in the first half (43) in Premiership
  • Carrick Rangers have the the worst goal difference (-36) away in Premiership
  • Portadown have the most dropped points from leading position (22) in Premiership

  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 33 22 4 7 76 34 17 14 2 1 49 9 16 8 2 6 27 25 42 70
2 Glentoran 33 18 9 6 61 29 16 11 4 1 35 11 17 7 5 5 26 18 32 63
3 Coleraine 33 18 8 7 50 32 17 10 4 3 24 13 16 8 4 4 26 19 18 62
4 Cliftonville 33 16 8 9 55 35 17 12 2 3 37 17 16 4 6 6 18 18 20 56
5 Larne 33 15 10 8 56 35 17 9 5 3 30 14 16 6 5 5 26 21 21 55
6 Crusaders 33 16 5 12 59 40 16 9 2 5 33 18 17 7 3 7 26 22 19 53
7 Glenavon 33 14 10 9 56 57 16 6 7 3 28 27 17 8 3 6 28 30 -1 52
8 Ballymena United 33 13 7 13 50 40 17 6 4 7 24 22 16 7 3 6 26 18 10 46
9 Portadown 33 8 6 19 40 65 17 4 3 10 19 26 16 4 3 9 21 39 -25 30
10 Warrenpoint Town 33 6 9 18 32 65 16 2 6 8 19 29 17 4 3 10 13 36 -33 27
11 Carrick Rangers 33 4 8 21 28 77 16 2 5 9 20 33 17 2 3 12 8 44 -49 20
12 Dungannon Swifts 33 4 4 25 18 72 16 3 0 13 11 33 17 1 4 12 7 39 -54 16

Table
  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 33 22 4 7 76 34 17 14 2 1 49 9 16 8 2 6 27 25 42 70
2 Glentoran 33 18 9 6 61 29 16 11 4 1 35 11 17 7 5 5 26 18 32 63
3 Coleraine 33 18 8 7 50 32 17 10 4 3 24 13 16 8 4 4 26 19 18 62
4 Cliftonville 33 16 8 9 55 35 17 12 2 3 37 17 16 4 6 6 18 18 20 56
5 Larne 33 15 10 8 56 35 17 9 5 3 30 14 16 6 5 5 26 21 21 55
6 Crusaders 33 16 5 12 59 40 16 9 2 5 33 18 17 7 3 7 26 22 19 53
7 Glenavon 33 14 10 9 56 57 16 6 7 3 28 27 17 8 3 6 28 30 -1 52
8 Ballymena United 33 13 7 13 50 40 17 6 4 7 24 22 16 7 3 6 26 18 10 46
9 Portadown 33 8 6 19 40 65 17 4 3 10 19 26 16 4 3 9 21 39 -25 30
10 Warrenpoint Town 33 6 9 18 32 65 16 2 6 8 19 29 17 4 3 10 13 36 -33 27
11 Carrick Rangers 33 4 8 21 28 77 16 2 5 9 20 33 17 2 3 12 8 44 -49 20
12 Dungannon Swifts 33 4 4 25 18 72 16 3 0 13 11 33 17 1 4 12 7 39 -54 16

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