Larne vs Portadown Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Larne

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Larne head into this game after a 0-0 Premiership drawn game vs Crusaders.

A common theme in recent Larne games is the number of nil scores.

From their prior sextet of clashes before this one, in as many as 5 of them a bet on both teams scoring would have been a loser. Previous results aside, we’ll just have to find out if that pattern might be maintained in this upcoming game.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Larne:

• are unbeaten in the league by Portadown in their last 5 matches.
• are undefeated in their previous 3 league matches at home.
• haven’t won at home in the past 2 league matches.

Portadown

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After being defeated in their last game at the hands of Coleraine in Premiership action, Portadown and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

The only player to score from Portadown was Gregory Moorhouse (12'). Rodney Brown (26'), Matthew Shevlin (36'), Conor McKendry (45') and Michael McCrudden (64') scored for Coleraine.

Niall Currie's Portadown have seen their goal attempts be successful a total of 6 times throughout their previous six matches. The aggregate of goals that they have conceded during those same matches comes to 10.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head to head meetings going back to 20/04/2021 shows that Larne have won 4 of these and Portadown 1, with the number of draws standing at 1.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 22 overall at an average of 3.67 goals per match.

The last league fixture featuring the two was Premiership match day 15 on 12/11/2022 when it ended Portadown 0-5 Larne.

The match was refereed by Raymond Crangle.

ℹ️ Team News: Larne

The Larne manager Tiernan Lynch has zero fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this game owing to a fully injury-free squad available for selection.

🗞️ Team News: Portadown

With a fully injury-free group to pick from, the Portadown boss Niall Currie does not have any fitness worries to report coming into this match.

🔮 Prediction

Larne will probably see a lot of the ball and convert quite a few goal-scoring opportunities.

At the same time, Portadown will be up against it to break down their defence although we do think that they will probably end up being dangerous for periods.

Our selection here is for a 3-1 winning score for Larne when all’s said and done.

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

Andre Moura, 01:35 20/01/2023