Dungannon Swifts vs Portadown Live Stream, Predictions

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Dungannon Swifts

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Dungannon Swifts will be hoping to return to winning ways here after a 1-0 Premiership loss in their previous game against Newry City.

Lorcan Forde (61') was the scorer for Newry City.

Their most recent results reveal that a bigger effort is required from the Dungannon Swifts rearguard. Dungannon Swifts have managed to let an unacceptable 18 goals go in at the wrong end as far as they are concerned over the course of their previous six clashes.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Dungannon Swifts:

• haven't lost in the league to Portadown in their previous 4 matches.
• have not won at home in their last 4 league matches. Their fans aren't happy.

Portadown

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After being beaten in their last game against Larne in Premiership action, Portadown and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

Paul O'Neill (28') was the scorer for Larne.

The stats tell the story, and Portadown have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, conceding 14 goals in all. In defence, Portadown have some weaknesses to address. Still, we will just have to wait and see whether that pattern shall continue on in this next game or not.

Ahead of this meeting, Portadown have not won against Dungannon Swifts when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league games.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 13/04/2021 shows us that Dungannon Swifts have won 3 of these games and Portadown 2, with the number of drawn results standing at 1.

Loads of goals were seen in those games, too - 22 overall which averages out at 3.67 goals per match.

The last league match featuring these sides was Premiership match day 1 on 19/04/2022 and the score finished Portadown 0-0 Dungannon Swifts.

The referee was Tony Clarke.

ℹ️ Team News: Dungannon Swifts

There aren’t many selection issues, with just the lone fitness concern for the Dungannon Swifts manager Dean Shiels to be concerned with from a near full-strength squad. Gerardo Bruna (Cruciate Ligament Injury) won’t play.

📋 Team News: Portadown

Owing to a completely healthy group available to select from, the Portadown manager Paul Doolin doesn’t have any fitness worries whatsoever coming into this clash.

💡 Prediction

For this match, we think that Portadown should have enough to find the net against this Dungannon Swifts side, however it realistically won’t be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We’re tipping a very close game with a 2-1 winning margin for Dungannon Swifts after the 90. Let’s wait and see how it plays out.

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Victor Martins, 23:15 18/09/2022