Receiving guests at their own home is safe and nice for Portadown, but Linfield are fully set and qualified to go home as winners. Who will win?
- Portadown have the fewest points (1) at home in Premiership
- Linfield have the fewest conceded goals (5) 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 have played 5 Premiership games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 0-1-4 (wins-draws-losses). The home stadium (Shamrock Park) is supposed to be a fortress, but for Portadown it's been a house of straw as the last four games here have all been lost. Can they turn things around?
Times are rough for the home team, having gone 189 minutes without scoring a league goal. L. Bonis was the last player to find the net.
Portadown faced defeat in their previous match, away at Cliftonville (0-4). Portadown were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.
Heartbreak before that as Portadown lost 0-2 at Coleraine's place.The match schedule is unforgiving for Portadown as they have a new game in only three days, a Irish League Cup match thankfully also at home. Cliftonville are visiting.
Portadown are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 6 goals in 5 games. Portadown have conceded 12 goals in these home games, a significant number.
Linfield form and stats
3-2-0 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Linfield, who have the fewest conceded goals (5) in Premiership, in their Premiership matches away. Things are running smoothly for Linfield who hasn't tasted defeat in their last ten matches, regardless of venue and tournament. Their last defeat was against Crusaders.
Linfield go into this game after a win, the home game against PSNI that ended 11-0. As mentioned above, Linfield was the only team on the pitch versus PSNI in their previous game, winning 11-0. This could be a tougher task. B. Chadwick certainly enjoyed Linfield's last game versus PSNI, appearing multiple times in the match report with three goals and the 11-0 victory.
That result followed a home victory 3-0 versus Dungannon Swifts in the Premiership.The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The Irish League Cup trip to Ballymena United.
Linfield have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 10 goals from 5 away matches. Linfield are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 3 times in 5 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
The previous head to head meeting ended Portadown - Linfield 2-3, played this season. Head to head totals (for the prior ten meetings): Portadown won two games, one match ended with a tie and Linfield managed seven wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / threeTop Goalscorers
  C. Manzinga 8 goals |  M. Green 4 goals |   L. Bonis 3 goals |
Portadown missing players
Linfield missing players
| Portadown | Linfield | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | 6 | 2 | Scored | S | 3 | 10 | 21 |
| 27 | 12 | 3 | Conceded | C | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 80% | 90% |
| 82% | 80% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 80% | 90% |
| 64% | 60% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 60% | 50% |
| 64% | 60% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 20% |
| 36% | 60% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 10% |
| 55% | 80% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 40% | 40% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 60% | 60% |
| 45% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 10% |
| 4.8 | 4.6 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 6.2 | 6.4 |
| 5.7 | 7.2 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 4.2 | 4 |
| 2.1 | 2.2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.6 | 1.6 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 7.2 | 8 | 6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 6.4 | 7.1 |
| 2.7 | 3 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 2.8 | 3.6 |
| 37% | 40% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 71% | 58% |
| 10.4 | 10.4 | 11 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 8.6 | 8.3 |
| 5.3 | 5.8 | 9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 3 | 2.8 |
- Linfield have not yet lost a game.
- Linfield have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Linfield have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Linfield have the fewest conceded goals (3) away in Premiership
- Linfield have the fewest conceded goals (5) in Premiership
- Linfield have the most matches under the total-line (7) in Premiership
- Linfield have the most scored goals in the first half (13) in Premiership
- Linfield have the the best goal difference (+16) in Premiership
- Portadown have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Portadown have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Portadown have the fewest points (1) at home in Premiership
- Portadown have yet to win a game at home.
- Portadown haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 26 |
| 2 | Linfield | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 21 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 16 | 22 |
| 3 | Coleraine | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 14 | 21 |
| 4 | Larne | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 21 |
| 5 | Glentoran | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 18 |
| 6 | Crusaders | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 16 |
| 7 | Carrick Rangers | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -5 | 13 |
| 8 | Glenavon | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| 9 | Ballymena United | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 11 | -9 | 10 |
| 10 | Dungannon Swifts | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 16 | 27 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 12 | -11 | 6 |
| 11 | Portadown | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 27 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 15 | -16 | 5 |
| 12 | Warrenpoint Town | 10 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 27 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | -20 | 3 |