Portadown vs Ballymena United Live Stream, Predictions (Apr 26)

📊 Form Guide

Portadown

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Portadown are hoping to win again following a 2-0 Premiership triumph over Cliftonville.

For Portadown, the goals were scored by Eamon Fyfe (2') and Josh Ukek (54').

It has been all too rare in recent games that Portadown have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The reality is that Portadown have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, leaking 8 goals during that time.

Ahead of this meeting, Portadown are undefeated in their previous 6 home league matches.

Ballymena United

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Following on from being defeated in their last game at the hands of Glenavon in Premiership competition, Ballymena United will be aiming to make amends here.

Peter Campbell (60') and Luke McGerrigan (95') scored for Glenavon.

Proving their bias toward eventful encounters, goals have been celebrated 20 times in the last six matches in which Ballymena United have played, yielding an average of 3.33 goals per meeting. Opposition teams have hit 12 from this total. Such a trend won’t necessarily be carried forward into this match, though.

Coming into this clash, Ballymena United haven’t won away from home in the past 3 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A look at their most recent head to head meetings dating back to 10/12/2022 shows that Portadown have won 3 of these & Ballymena United 2, with the number of drawn games being 1.

A total of 8 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 5 of them for The Ports and 3 coming from Sky Blues. That’s an average goals per game of 1.33.

The previous league clash featuring these sides was Premiership match day 30 on 22/02/2025 when it ended Ballymena United 2-0 Portadown.

The match was refereed by Declan Hassan.

ℹ️ Team News: Ballymena United

Thanks to a mainly available group, there’s just the one fitness issue for the Ballymena United manager Jim Ervin to be concerned about. 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, 08:13 22/04/2025