This is the Premiership opening game for these participants, whom look forward to playing for points again. Will Portadown or Glenavon get that highly important first victory?
Portadown form and stats
The previous season, Portadown's league stats were 8 wins, 6 draws and 19 losses, resulting in 9th place in the Premiership. During these 33 matches they scored 40 goals and gave away 65. Performing at home in the last season Portadown managed 4-3-10 (win-draw-lost) with 19 goals and 26 conceded.
Portadown are traveling soon after this match as the Premiership match at Crusaders awaits in four days.
With the first game of the season soon underway, it's time to look at the results from the Portadown friendly games in pre-season: Portadown played three friendlies, won 2, drew 1 and lost 0. If you are really into statistics you might appreciate knowing that Portadown scored 5 goals and conceded 2 in these three games.
Glenavon form and stats
Let's have a look at how Glenavon performed last season in the Premiership: They landed a 7th position in the league table after playing out 14 victories, 10 draws and 9 defeats. In total they scored 56 and conceded 57 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 8 - drew 3 and lost 6 with 28/30 goals scored/conceded.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Larne in just four days.
It's finally time to play a game of importance again as a long period of training has passed. Glenavon have played a number of friendly games in this period, resulting in 2 wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats from two fixtures.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head numbers (for the preceeding ten meetings): Portadown won three games, zero matches ended in a draw and Glenavon have seven wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: eight / twoPortadown missing players
Glenavon missing players
| Portadown | Glenavon | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Portadown | Last season | Glenavon | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 38 | 20 | Played | P | 20 | 39 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Won | W | 9 | 17 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 11 | ||
| 22 | 11 | Lost | L | 8 | 11 | ||
| 50 | 26 | Scored | S | 36 | 73 | ||
| 78 | 31 | Conceded | C | 38 | 67 | ||
| 97% | 95% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 95% | 95% | ||
| 89% | 85% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 90% | 90% | ||
| 74% | 70% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 70% | 67% | ||
| 37% | 20% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 40% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 10% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 28% | ||
| 66% | 70% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 79% | ||
| 13% | 15% | Clean Sheets | C S | 20% | 18% | ||
| 24% | 20% | Failed to Score | F T | 10% | 8% | ||
| 3.5 | 4.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.2 | 6.6 | ||
| 8.2 | 8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.1 | 4.8 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.9 | 2.2 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 7 | 8 | ||
| 6.4 | 7.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.3 | 9.6 | ||
| 3.2 | 3.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 4.9 | ||
| 42% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 47% | 38% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Ballymena United | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Carrick Rangers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Cliftonville | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Coleraine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Crusaders | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Dungannon Swifts | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Glenavon | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Glentoran | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Larne | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Linfield | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Portadown | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Warrenpoint Town | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Last season | Total | Home | Away | ||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Glenavon | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 62 |
| 2 | Ballymena United | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 13 | 61 |
| 3 | Portadown | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | -3 | 36 |
| 4 | Warrenpoint Town | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | -3 | 36 |
| 5 | Carrick Rangers | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -8 | 23 |
| 6 | Dungannon Swifts | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -7 | 17 |