Portadown vs Dungannon Swifts Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Portadown

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Portadown will be looking for an improved result here following a 1-3 Premiership loss in their previous game against Glentoran.

Conor McMenamin (2'), Hrvoje Plum (30') and Jay Donnelly (66') scored for Glentoran.

It has been a rare occasion in recent games that Portadown haven’t conceded. The reality is that The Ports have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 12 goals on the way. Let’s find out if that trend can be sustained here.

Ahead of this clash, Portadown are without a win at home for the past 7 league games. Their supporters are understandably frustrated.

Dungannon Swifts

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In their last fixture, Dungannon Swifts drew 1-1 in the Premiership match with Warrenpoint Town.

The stats tell the story, and Dungannon Swifts have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 10 goals in all. At the back, The Swifts seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly.

Going into this encounter, Dungannon Swifts have not won away from home in their last 2 league games.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their most recent head to head clashes dating back to 16/04/2016 shows us that Portadown have won 2 of them and Dungannon Swifts 4, with the number of drawn results being 0.

In all, 17 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 6 of them for The Ports and 11 belonging to The Swifts. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.83.

The previous league meeting featuring these sides was Premiership match day 6 on 08/12/2020 and the score finished Dungannon Swifts 0-3 Portadown.

The referee was Jamie Robinson.

🗞️ Team News: Portadown

Portadown manager Matthew Tipton will be happy not to have any fitness worries to speak of before this game thanks to a completely healthy group available for selection.

ℹ️ Team News: Dungannon Swifts

Due to a fully injury-free group to pick from, Dungannon Swifts boss Dixie Robinson has zero fitness worries to speak of before this match.

💭 Prediction

It seems to us that Dungannon Swifts and Portadown could both find goals hard to come by here.

We’ll have to see, but a draw might be on the cards. We’re therefore anticipating a very close game with a 0-0 scoreline by the conclusion of this game.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 11:19 16/02/2021