Portadown will take to the pitch with visiting rivals Cliftonville at Shamrock Park in the Premiership game on Saturday.
To see all of our predictions, user poll & stats for Portadown v Cliftonville, scroll down - along with the latest match odds.
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Portadown
WDLDLW ⚖
Portadown will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following a 3-1 Premiership success vs Loughgall.
For Portadown, the goalscorers were James Teelan (19'), Josh Ukek (82') and Ben Wylie (90'). Ryan Waide (83') was the scorer for Loughgall.
It has been seldom in recent times that Portadown have kept a clean sheet. The facts show that Portadown have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 8 goals in the process.
Taking a look at their past results, Portadown:
- are unbeaten in the league by Cliftonville in their previous 2 matches.
- are undefeated in their previous 5 home league matches.
Cliftonville
DWWWWW 🔥
Cliftonville head into the clash following a 2-0 Premiership win with the defeat of Glenavon in their previous game.
For Cliftonville, goals were scored by Ryan Curran (53') and Eric McWoods (73').
The attack-minded Cliftonville have helped themselves to a plethora of goals over their previous six games (18 in all). That works out as the impressive average of 3 goals scored per game during this period of time. We shall soon find out if that trend will end up being sustained here.
Heading into this contest, Cliftonville haven't been defeated in their previous 2 away league matches.
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Head to head
Looking at their past head to head meetings going back to 17/12/2022 shows that Portadown have won 1 of these games and Cliftonville 4, with the number of draws standing at 1.
A sum of 17 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 5 from The Ports and 12 belonging to The Reds. That is an average goals per game value of 2.83.
The previous league encounter between these sides was Premiership match day 28 on 09/02/2025 and the score finished Cliftonville 2-2 Portadown.
The referee was Tony Clarke.
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Prediction
We’re of the view that Portadown might have a difficult job to score against this Cliftonville lineup who we think will just have the edge.
We therefore see a hard-fought 0-1 win for Cliftonville at the end of the 90 minutes.
Looking forward to this.
Victor Martins,
03:19 16/04/2025
Odds correct at time of publishing. All odds subject to change.
🏟️ Team Focus:
Portadown
Formed: 1887
Stadium: Shamrock Park (2,770)
Captain: Gary Thompson
Chairman: David Jameson
Manager: Niall Currie
Competitions: Premiership position 8
🔑 Star Player: Adu Obhakhan
Regularly playing in the Striker position, Adu Obhakhan was born in Drogheda, Rep. Ireland. Having played his first senior match for Portadown in the 2024 - 2025 season, the gifted Forward has bagged 9 league goals in this Premiership 2024 - 2025 campaign so far coming from a total of 34 appearances.