📊 Form Guide

Portadown

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Portadown will be hoping for a better result following the 3-0 Premiership loss in their previous game against Glenavon.

Paddy Burns (24'), Conor Falls (27') and Paul McGovern (73') scored for Glenavon.

It has been seldom in recent games that Portadown have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that Portadown have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 11 goals along the way.

Going into this one, Portadown are unbeaten in their last 2 home league matches.

Cliftonville

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Cliftonville go into this game following on from a 2-0 Premiership win against Linfield in their last game.

For Cliftonville, goals were scored by Shaun Leppard (64') and Joe Gormley (94').

In a total of 5 out of the previous 6 games featuring Cliftonville, three or more goals have gone in. The overall average goals scored per game within that time is 4.17, with the number of goals averaged by Cliftonville equalling 2.33. Still, we must now wait to see if that trend might be maintained here in this match.

Ahead of this meeting, Cliftonville are without a win away from home in their last 6 league matches.

👥 Head to head

A glance at their prior head to head clashes going back to 11/08/2024 shows that Portadown have won 3 of them and Cliftonville 2, with the number of drawn games being 1.

17 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 10 of them from The Ports and 7 created by The Reds. The average goals per game has been 2.83.

The last league clash featuring these sides was Premiership match day 18 on 29/11/2025 when the final score was Portadown 2-3 Cliftonville.

The match was refereed by Evan Boyce.

🔮 Prediction

Our thinking is that Portadown might well have a job on their hands to put one past this Cliftonville side who will likely end up scoring and staying ahead.

We’re therefore expecting a 0-1 win for Cliftonville when the referee blows for full-time.

Should be an interesting one.

Renata Leite, 19:04 04/03/2026