The visiting Larne side should be favourites in this visit to Portadown, as the away team holds a 31 point advantage from their 31 league games this season.
- Larne have the fewest conceded goals (16) away in Premiership
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Portadown form and stats
Portadown's results here at Shamrock Park in the Premiership have been very modest with 3 victories, 3 draws and 10 defeats.
Portadown's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-2 versus Cliftonville (placed 5th). Ahead of that match, Portadown won a home game hosting Dungannon Swifts (1-0).
Portadown are traveling soon after this match as the Premiership match at Warrenpoint Town awaits in four days.
Portadown has scored 17 league goals at home this season, in 16 matches. Portadown have conceded 25 from these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
Larne form and stats
The visitors, who have the fewest conceded goals (16) away in Premiership, are W6-D5-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Premiership.
Larne won their last game, 5-0 versus Warrenpoint Town played at home. A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Linfield.
As you can tell from the results above, Larne was very dominant against Warrenpoint Town, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 5-0 (!) with R. Hale, D. McDaid, M. Donnelly, A. Mitchell and J. Robinson providing the goals.
Larne has another fixture away, a Premiership game, against Glentoran in just three days. A tough schedule for the visitors!
The travelling fans enjoy Larne's attacking play in away games, having scored 23 goals in 14 league matches away. As opposed to that, Larne have seen the ball go into their own net 16 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have met before this season: Portadown - Larne 1-2. Portadown-Larne H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Portadown three wins, Larne four wins, three draws. ten of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  L. Bonis 10 goals |  D. McDaid 10 goals | R. Hale 9 goals |
Portadown missing players
Larne missing players
| Portadown | Larne | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 31 | 16 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 14 | 31 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 6 | 15 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 19 | 10 | 4 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 35 | 17 | 2 | Scored | S | 8 | 23 | 53 |
| 63 | 25 | 9 | Conceded | C | 3 | 16 | 30 |
| 97% | 94% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 93% | 94% |
| 87% | 81% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 86% | 84% |
| 68% | 62% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 50% | 55% |
| 32% | 19% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 29% | 23% |
| 19% | 6% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | 10% |
| 58% | 62% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 64% | 55% |
| 16% | 19% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 21% | 32% |
| 29% | 25% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 21% | 19% |
| 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 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.7 | 1.5 |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6.1 | 7.1 | 6.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 8.4 | 9 |
| 3 | 3.4 | 2.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.4 |
| 38% | 31% | 20% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 42% | 36% | 39% |
- Larne have the fewest conceded goals (16) away 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 | 32 | 22 | 4 | 6 | 74 | 31 | 17 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 49 | 9 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 25 | 22 | 43 | 70 |
| 2 | Coleraine | 32 | 17 | 8 | 7 | 48 | 31 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 24 | 13 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 24 | 18 | 17 | 59 |
| 3 | Glentoran | 31 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 56 | 27 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 32 | 9 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 24 | 18 | 29 | 57 |
| 4 | Larne | 31 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 53 | 30 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 30 | 14 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 23 | 16 | 23 | 55 |
| 5 | Cliftonville | 31 | 15 | 8 | 8 | 50 | 33 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 32 | 15 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 53 |
| 6 | Crusaders | 32 | 15 | 5 | 12 | 57 | 40 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 33 | 18 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 24 | 22 | 17 | 50 |
| 7 | Ballymena United | 32 | 13 | 7 | 12 | 49 | 38 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 23 | 20 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 26 | 18 | 11 | 46 |
| 8 | Glenavon | 31 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 49 | 52 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 25 | 25 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 24 | 27 | -3 | 46 |
| 9 | Warrenpoint Town | 31 | 6 | 9 | 16 | 28 | 58 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 22 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 36 | -30 | 27 |
| 10 | Portadown | 31 | 6 | 6 | 19 | 35 | 63 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 17 | 25 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 18 | 38 | -28 | 24 |
| 11 | Carrick Rangers | 32 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 28 | 72 | 16 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 20 | 33 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 39 | -44 | 20 |
| 12 | Dungannon Swifts | 32 | 4 | 4 | 24 | 18 | 70 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 11 | 31 | 17 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 7 | 39 | -52 | 16 |