📏 Form Guide

Cliftonville

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Cliftonville, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 1-4 Premiership success over Loughgall.

For Cliftonville, the goalscorers were Joe Gormley (21', 48'), Alex Parsons (65') and Ryan Curran (82'). Ryan Waide (68') scored for Loughgall.

Matches with Cliftonville have tended to be lively affairs recently with a lot of goalmouth action being a common characteristic. Over their past six games, a grand total of 21 goals have been scored for both sides combined (at an average of 3.5 goals per game) with 17 of these accredited to Cliftonville.

Dungannon Swifts

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Dungannon Swifts head into the match following a 1-0 Premiership win vs Crusaders in their previous match.

The only name on the scoresheet from Dungannon Swifts was John McGovern (73').

Throughout their six latest matches, Rodney McAree's Dungannon Swifts have found the back of the net a total of 9 times - giving them a goals scored per game average of 1.5.

👥 Head to head

Checking on their past head to head meetings going back to 07/10/2023 tells us that Cliftonville have won 4 of them and Dungannon Swifts 2, with the tally of drawn games standing at 0.

There were also plenty of goals scored in those games, 22 in total at an average of 3.67 goals per match.

The last league encounter between the two was Premiership match day 24 on 12/03/2025 which ended up with the score at Cliftonville 0-2 Dungannon Swifts.

The match was refereed by Steven Gregg.

ℹ️ Team News: Dungannon Swifts

In an otherwise healthy group, there’s just a single fitness problem for the Dungannon Swifts manager Rodney McAree to contend with. Niall Owens (Knock) won’t be in action.

🔮 Prediction

We’re of the view that Dungannon Swifts have it within them to put a goal past this Cliftonville team, but it probably won’t quite be enough to prevent defeat.

We’re tipping a narrow 2-1 victory for Cliftonville at the end of the match. Let’s see what eventuates.

Victor Martins, 13:00 03/05/2025