Carrick Rangers vs Portadown Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Carrick Rangers

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Carrick Rangers will be wanting a better result here after a 1-3 Premiership defeat last time out to Cliftonville.

The only scorer from Carrick Rangers was Danny Gibson (4'). Luke Conlan (29'), Eric McWoods (84') and Joe Gormley (88') scored for Cliftonville.

Carrick Rangers haven’t exactly had impressive attacking statistics in more recent games. Their goals record stands at just 3 against opposition teams over their previous 6 fixtures. In those games, Carrick Rangers have also seen the tally of goals against them come to 8. We will just have to see if that trend can be continued on here.

A look at their previous results shows us that Carrick Rangers:

• haven't won against Portadown in their last 4 matches in the league.
• haven’t won at home in the past 2 league games.

Portadown

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In their last game, Portadown drew 1-1 in the Premiership tie with Glenavon.

The only name on the scoresheet from Portadown was Adu Obhakhan (21'). Harry Murphy (36') scored for Glenavon.

The strike force from Portadown have suffered from a shortage of goals in their past six encounters, netting the disappointing return of only 3. In those fixtures, The Ports have also seen the overall goal tally of their opponents equal 7.

Coming into this contest, Portadown have not won away from home in their last 6 league games.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their prior head to head clashes dating back to 04/03/2023 shows that Carrick Rangers have won 1 of these games and Portadown 3, with the tally of draws standing at 2.

A combined sum of 14 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 6 for The Gers and 8 created by The Ports. That is an average goals per game value of 2.33.

The last league encounter between these sides was Premiership match day 31 on 08/03/2025 when it ended Portadown 1-0 Carrick Rangers.

The referee was Tony Clarke.

📰 Team News: Carrick Rangers

Looking at personnel, there is just the sole fitness concern for the Carrick Rangers boss Stephen Baxter to be concerned about thanks to an almost full-strength squad. Cameron Stewart (surgery) won’t play.

🔮 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Portadown and Carrick Rangers could well both score and end up finding themselves in a fairly even game here.

A draw is a real possibility, as we are expecting there to be little between them. We therefore think that it’s going to be a very even match with a 1-1 score at the end of the 90 minutes.

Lucas Pereira, 11:05 04/04/2025