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Portadown vs Cliftonville Live Stream, Predictions
Cliftonville will be back in action on Friday as they get ready for their imminent Irish Cup clash with Portadown.
All Portadown v Cliftonville game predictions, stats and user poll are shown below - plus the latest match odds.
📊 Form Guide
Portadown
LWLDDW ⚖
Portadown, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 2-1 Irish Cup triumph against Bangor.
It’s been seldom in recent games where Portadown have kept a clean sheet. In fact, Portadown have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 7 goals along the way.
Cliftonville
WDWWLL
After a loss in their previous game against Dungannon Swifts in Premiership competition, Cliftonville and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.
The only name on the scoresheet from Cliftonville was Chris Curran (58'). Thomas Maguire (9'), Ben Gallagher (83') and James Knowles (91') scored for Dungannon Swifts.
Demonstrating their bias toward high-scoring matches, goals have been celebrated 26 times in the last six matches in which Cliftonville have sent out their troops, giving a mean average of 4.33 goals for each meeting. Opposition teams have managed 11 of this grand total. That sort of trend might not be sustained into this next game, however.
👥 Head to head
Looking over past results between these clubs stretching back to 02/11/2021 reveals that these encounters have been pretty painful for Portadown. They have not been able to come away with any victories at all whereas Cliftonville have just been stronger than them, winning in 83% of those ties.
A combined total of 19 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 3 for The Ports and 16 for The Reds. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.17.
The last league contest featuring these sides was Premiership match day 28 on 14/02/2023 when it ended Cliftonville 3-0 Portadown.
The match was refereed by Steven Gregg.
📰 Team News: Portadown
The Portadown boss will be happy not to have any fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this match thanks to a completely healthy squad available to select from.
📰 Team News: Cliftonville
In an otherwise healthy group of players, there’s just the one fitness issue for the Cliftonville gaffer Jim Magilton to be concerned about. Ryan Curran (Groin injury) won’t be playing here.
🧠 Prediction
Our feeling is that Portadown have it in them to get a goal against this Cliftonville side, although one goal is unlikely to be as many as they’ll concede.
Our tip is for a 1-2 winning score for Cliftonville at the end of the 90 minutes. Should be an interesting one.
Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Lucas Pereira, 19:00 01/03/2024
⚽️ Team Focus:
Portadown
Formed: 1887
Stadium: Shamrock Park (2,770)
Captain: Luke Wilson
Chairman: David Jameson
Manager: Niall Currie
Competitions: Irish Cup (Quarter-finals)
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30 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 45 | 73 | WWWWW |
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31 | 23 | 3 | 5 | 34 | 72 | LDLWW |
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31 | 21 | 4 | 6 | 44 | 67 | DWWLL |
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29 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 27 | 49 | WDDWL |
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30 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 48 | LLDWW |
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30 | 11 | 5 | 14 | -16 | 38 | LWLWW |
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30 | 10 | 5 | 15 | -22 | 35 | WLDWD |
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30 | 9 | 6 | 15 | -12 | 33 | WLDLD |
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30 | 8 | 7 | 15 | -8 | 31 | LWDLW |
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29 | 9 | 3 | 17 | -18 | 30 | WLDLL |
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30 | 5 | 4 | 21 | -35 | 19 | LLDLL |
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30 | 3 | 5 | 22 | -55 | 14 | LDDLL |
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Paul McElroy | 6 |
Josh Archer | 3 |
Cathair Friel | 3 |
Jordan Jenkins | 3 |
Gregory Moorhouse | 3 |
Ben Wilson | 17 |
Ronan Hale | 13 |
Joe Gormley | 10 |
Rory Hale | 9 |
Sam Ashford | 5 |
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