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Predictions and Tips
Ballymena United visit Shamrock Park on Saturday for the Premiership meeting with home team Portadown.
All of our predictions, stats and the user poll for Portadown v Ballymena United are shown below - plus the latest betting odds.
📏 Form Guide

Portadown
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Portadown, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 2-0 Premiership victory versus Cliftonville.
For Portadown, the scorers were Eamon Fyfe (2') and Josh Ukek (54').
It has been a rare occasion in recent games where Portadown haven’t conceded. In fact, Portadown have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 games, giving up 8 goals along the way.
Ahead of this meeting, Portadown are undefeated in their previous 6 home league matches.
Ballymena United
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Following on from a losing effort in their last game against Glenavon in Premiership action, Ballymena United and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.
Peter Campbell (60') and Luke McGerrigan (95') scored for Glenavon.
The stats tell the story, and Ballymena United have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, letting opponents get 12 goals in total. At the back, Ballymena United have clearly had some problems. That kind of trend might not be continued into this match, of course.
Coming into this clash, Ballymena United haven’t won away from home in the past 3 league matches.
↔️ Head to head
Inspecting their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 10/12/2022 shows us that Portadown have won 3 of these & Ballymena United 2, with the number of drawn results being 1.
A sum of 8 goals were scored between them in these games, with 5 of them from The Ports and 3 coming from Sky Blues. That’s an average goals per game figure of 1.33.
The last league fixture between the two was Premiership match day 30 on 22/02/2025 when it ended Ballymena United 2-0 Portadown.
The match was refereed by Declan Hassan.
📰 Team News: Ballymena United
Thanks to a mainly available group of players, there is just the lone fitness worry for the Ballymena United boss Jim Ervin to contend with. Johnny McMurray (Knee surgery) won’t be playing here.
🧠 Prediction
Looking at these two teams, we feel that Ballymena United could find themselves struggling to register a score against this Portadown team who should get the vital goal that wins it.
We’re therefore predicting a very even match with a 1-0 winning score for Portadown when all is said and done.
Should be interesting.
Andre Moura, 16:14 26/04/2025
📊 Poll: Who Will Win?

⚽️ 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
Generally taking to the field in the Striker position, Adu Obhakhan was born in Drogheda, Rep. Ireland. After having played his first senior match for Portadown in the 2024 - 2025 season, the talented Forward has scored 9 league goals in this Premiership 2024 - 2025 campaign so far in 35 appearances.
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37 | 27 | 4 | 6 | 42 | 85 | WWWWL |
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37 | 17 | 11 | 9 | 13 | 62 | WDDWW |
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37 | 17 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 60 | LWLWL |
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37 | 16 | 6 | 15 | 2 | 54 | LDLLW |
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37 | 16 | 6 | 15 | -5 | 54 | WLDLW |
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37 | 14 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 52 | WLWLL |
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37 | 16 | 7 | 14 | 14 | 55 | WWWWL |
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37 | 15 | 8 | 14 | 2 | 53 | LDLWW |
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37 | 14 | 5 | 18 | -6 | 47 | LWLDL |
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38 | 12 | 10 | 16 | -6 | 46 | LDLLW |
11 |
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38 | 7 | 11 | 20 | -26 | 32 | LLWDD |
12 |
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37 | 5 | 7 | 25 | -46 | 22 | WLWLD |
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Loughgall |
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Glenavon |
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Larne |
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Cliftonville |
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Goals scored | 1.4 |
Goals conceded | 0.9 |
Time first goal scored | 44 |
Time first goal conceded | 28 |
Yellow cards | 2.7 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 3.2 |
Biggest victory | 3-1 |
Biggest defeat | 3-1 |
Goals scored | 1.1 |
Goals conceded | 1.5 |
Time first goal scored | 36 |
Time first goal conceded | 35 |
Yellow cards | 3.1 |
Red cards | 0.2 |
Subs used | 3.5 |
Biggest victory | 4-1 |
Biggest defeat | 5-0 |
Adu Obhakhan | 9 |
Ryan Mayse | 8 |
Josh Ukek | 8 |
Eamon Fyfe | 4 |
Steven McCullough | 4 |
Ben Kennedy | 13 |
Ethan Devine | 4 |
Andy Scott | 4 |
Success Edogun | 3 |
Patrick McEleney | 3 |
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