Portadown will hope that their home advantage is enough to get all three points from this strenuous meeting, versus dynamic Cliftonville.
- Portadown have the fewest scored goals (28) in Premiership
- Cliftonville have the fewest matches over the total-line (8) in Premiership
19 - 13 - 12 with 58-42. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Cliftonville when playing on grass like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Cliftonville play their home games on artifical turf so that's why we provide these numbers.
It's no vacation for neither Portadown nor Cliftonville as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Portadown form and stats
With 3 Premiership wins, 7 draws and 6 defeats from their home games, Portadown are certainly not brimming with confidence.
Portadown are confident in defense, having played 199 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.
Portadown played out a surprising loss 0-2 against Cliftonville in their previous outing, also a home game.
Ahead of that match, Portadown won a home game hosting Coleraine (2-0).Portadown's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 20 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. 12 of these goals came after the timer had passed one hour (more than 60 %).
Cliftonville form and stats
8-6-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Cliftonville in their Premiership matches away. In general it has been a productive period now for Cliftonville as they haven't lost any of their last eleven games.
The Cliftonville goalkeeper is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 318 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
Cliftonville play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-0 victory visiting Portadown (placed 11th).
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Dungannon Swifts at their stadium, the result 1-0.Cliftonville are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 23 away goals from 16 games (in the league). Cliftonville are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 13 times in 16 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above. More than 55 percent of these were conceded from the 60th minute and onwards in these in the last 30 minutes of games.
Head 2 Head
These two sides faced each other before this campaign: Portadown - Cliftonville 1-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Portadown zero wins, two draws and Cliftonville eight victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. Curran 12 goals | J. Gormley 11 goals |  A. Salley 6 goals |
Portadown missing players
Cliftonville missing players
| Portadown | Cliftonville | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 33 | 17 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 17 | 33 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 4 | 9 | 22 |
| 9 | 7 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 6 | 7 |
| 19 | 7 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 28 | 16 | 3 | Scored | S | 11 | 25 | 54 |
| 63 | 22 | 5 | Conceded | C | 5 | 13 | 24 |
| 94% | 88% | 75% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 94% | 97% |
| 70% | 59% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 65% | 70% |
| 48% | 29% | 25% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 24% | 39% |
| 45% | 29% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 75% | 24% | 21% |
| 15% | 18% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 12% | 6% |
| 42% | 47% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 47% | 45% |
| 18% | 29% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 41% | 45% |
| 45% | 35% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 18% | 12% |
| 3.9 | 3.8 | 4.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.8 | 5.8 | 6.1 |
| 7.7 | 8.5 | 9.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 3.9 | 3.2 |
| 1.8 | 1.5 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 0.8 | 0.9 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 6.9 | 7.9 | 9.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 7 | 8.6 |
| 2.5 | 2.8 | 3.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 2.9 | 4.1 |
| 34% | 33% | 20% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 73% | 51% | 40% |
| 11.3 | 11.1 | 12.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8 | 7.8 | 6.4 |
| 5.2 | 4.9 | 4.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 2.7 | 2.4 |
- Cliftonville have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Cliftonville have the fewest conceded goals (13) away in Premiership
- Cliftonville have the fewest matches over the total-line (8) in Premiership
- 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 scored goals (16) at home in Premiership
- Portadown have the fewest scored goals (28) 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 | 8 | 3 | 62 | 22 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 31 | 7 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 31 | 15 | 40 | 74 |
| 2 | Cliftonville | 32 | 21 | 7 | 4 | 52 | 24 | 16 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 29 | 11 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 23 | 13 | 28 | 70 |
| 3 | Glentoran | 33 | 21 | 6 | 6 | 64 | 34 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 34 | 20 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 30 | 14 | 30 | 69 |
| 4 | Crusaders | 33 | 19 | 4 | 10 | 47 | 28 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 11 | 17 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 25 | 17 | 19 | 61 |
| 5 | Larne | 33 | 15 | 8 | 10 | 56 | 38 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 26 | 17 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 30 | 21 | 18 | 53 |
| 6 | Coleraine | 33 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 50 | 32 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 27 | 11 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 23 | 21 | 18 | 48 |
| 7 | Glenavon | 33 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 46 | 44 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 19 | 24 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 27 | 20 | 2 | 45 |
| 8 | Ballymena United | 33 | 13 | 5 | 15 | 38 | 46 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 24 | 19 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 14 | 27 | -8 | 44 |
| 9 | Dungannon Swifts | 33 | 9 | 1 | 23 | 40 | 81 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 22 | 42 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 18 | 39 | -41 | 28 |
| 10 | Carrick Rangers | 33 | 6 | 7 | 20 | 33 | 62 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 18 | 28 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 34 | -29 | 25 |
| 11 | Portadown | 32 | 5 | 9 | 18 | 28 | 61 | 16 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 20 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 41 | -33 | 24 |
| 12 | Warrenpoint Town | 33 | 3 | 3 | 27 | 30 | 74 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 20 | 48 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 26 | -44 | 12 |
