📊 Form Guide

Portadown

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Portadown, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 1-0 Premiership triumph against Carrick Rangers.

The only player to score from Portadown was Josh Ukek (81').

Fewer than three goals per game were seen in 5 of the last 6 fixtures where Portadown have been participants. With regard to the goal distribution in this period, their opponents scored an aggregate of 7 while Portadown got themselves 6. Putting that to one side, it remains to be seen if that pattern might be maintained in this match.

Heading into this fixture, Portadown haven't been defeated in their previous 2 home league matches.

Dungannon Swifts

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Dungannon Swifts will go into this encounter following on from a 0-2 Premiership win with the downing of Cliftonville in their last game.

For Dungannon Swifts, the scorers were James Knowles (52') and John McGovern (63').

Throughout their 6 previous matches, Rodney McAree's Dungannon Swifts have managed to stick the ball in the net 9 times thus earning them a goals per game average of 1.5.

Taking a look at their past results, Dungannon Swifts:

• have not emerged victorious against Portadown when they have played them away from home in the previous 4 league matches. Not the best of away records.
• are unbeaten in their last 2 league matches away from home.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 23/09/2022 tells us that Portadown have won 2 of them and Dungannon Swifts 3, with the number of draws standing at 1.

In all, 16 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 7 of them from The Ports and 9 netted by The Swifts. That’s an average goals per game of 2.67.

The previous league contest featuring the two was Premiership match day 13 on 19/10/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Dungannon Swifts 2-0 Portadown.

The match was refereed by Mark Dillon.

🧠 Prediction

Dungannon Swifts and Portadown should both be able to score here although it’s hard to pick a clear winner.

A draw is a real possibility, as we are expecting there to be little between them. We’re therefore predicting a close game with a 1-1 draw at the end of the 90.

Victor Martins, 17:01 15/03/2025