About Match
15 points for H&W Welders (2nd), 9 for Ballinamallard United (7th): a 6-point gap. Against a league average of 1.71 goals per team per game, H&W Welders run at 2.17 scored and 0.67 conceded, Ballinamallard United at 1.83 and 1.5. A win here leaves H&W Welders on 18 points and up to 1st, other results permitting.
H&W Welders arrive on a run of four straight wins, having scored in 7 consecutive games.
11 meetings are on record — 8 won by H&W Welders, 2 by Ballinamallard United, 1 drawn, at 3.18 goals per meeting. The pattern favours whoever hosts: home teams have won 73% of the meetings. 73% of the meetings finished with three goals or more. The fixture has tightened lately: 2.2 goals per game over the last five meetings, down from 3.18 all-time.
Blanchflower Stadium in Belfast, capacity 3,000, hosts the game.