📏 Form Guide

Dungannon Swifts

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Dungannon Swifts are hoping to win again following the 3-2 Premiership victory versus Cliftonville.

For Dungannon Swifts, the goalscorers were Steven Scott (17'), Cahal McGinty (74') and Adam Glenny (90'). Joe Gormley (43') and Brian Healy (64') scored for Cliftonville.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent games where Dungannon Swifts have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, Dungannon Swifts have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 16 goals during that time. We will just have to find out whether or not that trend will be continued on into this next match.

Coming into this clash, Dungannon Swifts have not beaten Linfield in their last 6 league matches.

Linfield

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Linfield go into this game following on from a 0-3 Premiership win with the defeat of Glenavon in their most recent fixture.

For Linfield, the goals were scored by Matthew Fitzpatrick (33', 51') and Sam Taylor (68').

A tendency of at least one side getting a clean sheet in games involving Linfield has become evident recently. Checking on their last 6 games shows that it’s occurred 5 times. In these clashes, their opponents have hit a goal tally of 2 while Linfield have scored 12.

Analysis of their past results shows that Linfield:

• have not been beaten by Dungannon Swifts in games played away from home for the previous 16 league games. An amazing feat.
• have not been beaten in their last 3 away league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their past head to head meetings going back to 17/08/2024 reveals that these encounters have not been happy ones for Dungannon Swifts. They’ve not been able to come away with any victories at all while Linfield have simply been better than them, winning in 100 per cent of those match-ups.

19 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 1 of them from The Swifts and 18 for The Blues. That is an average goals per game value of 3.17.

The previous league meeting between these clubs was Premiership match day 28 on 10/02/2026 when the final score was Linfield 6-0 Dungannon Swifts.

The match was refereed by Shane McGonigle.

📋 Team News: Linfield

Linfield boss David Healy has multiple availability issues to deal with. Chris Shields (Knee injury) and Robbie McDaid (Achilles tendon problems) are not ready for selection.

🔮 Prediction

Our feeling is that Dungannon Swifts might well have a job on their hands to be putting a goal past this Linfield lineup who should just have the edge.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a good tussle with a 0-1 winning score for Linfield at full-time.

Let’s see how this one goes.

Peter Guest, 19:06 17/02/2026