Dungannon Swifts vs Portadown Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Dungannon Swifts

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Dungannon Swifts will be wanting a better result here after the 2-0 Premiership losing effort in their last game against Coleraine.

Matthew Shevlin (32') and Cathair Friel (48') scored for Coleraine.

Matches involving Dungannon Swifts have proved to be entertaining ones recently with high scoring expected. Over their past six games, a grand total of 22 goals have been scored for both teams combined (at an average of 3.67 goals per game) with 6 of these accredited to Dungannon Swifts.

Portadown

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Previously, Portadown drew 2-2 in the Premiership match with Carrick Rangers.

For Portadown, the goals were scored by Michael Ruddy (11') and Oisin Conaty (33'). Lloyd Anderson (71') and Jordan Gibson (90') scored for Carrick Rangers.

The attacking players from Portadown have suffered from a lack of goals over their previous 6 clashes, recording the poor return of just 4. In those fixtures, The Ports have also seen the collective goal tally against them equal 11. We shall soon find out if that trend will end up being continued on in this game.

Their past results show that Portadown:

• are undefeated by Dungannon Swifts when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 league matches.
• are without an away win for the past 3 league games.

👥 Head to head

A look at their most recent head to head meetings stretching back to 29/04/2017 tells us that Dungannon Swifts have won 2 of these games & Portadown 4, with the tally of drawn results being 0.

A total of 18 goals were produced between them in this period, with 8 of them from The Swifts and 10 being from The Ports. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.

The last league fixture between the two was Premiership match day 6 on 25/09/2021 and the score finished Portadown 1-4 Dungannon Swifts.

The referee was Tim Marshall.

🗞️ Team News: Dungannon Swifts

The Dungannon Swifts manager Dean Shiels will be thankful to have no fitness worries at all ahead of this match thanks to a completely healthy squad available to choose from.

🗞️ Team News: Portadown

With a completely healthy squad to choose from, the Portadown boss Matthew Tipton doesn’t have any fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this match.

🔮 Prediction

We believe that Dungannon Swifts should be able to create a good number of chances & successful shots on target.

Conversely, Portadown won’t find it easy to break down their defence although we do see them scoring here.

Our tip is for a decent 3-1 win for Dungannon Swifts by the time that the referee blows the final whistle.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 01:22 16/11/2021