About Match
In the standings it is Dungannon Swifts 2nd on 12 points, Carrick Rangers 5th on 9 — separated by 3. Per game in the league, Dungannon Swifts score 1.6 and conceding 0.6, Carrick Rangers 1.4 and 0.8, against a competition average of 1.31 goals per team per game. Victory would move Dungannon Swifts to 15 points and up to 1st, with other results unchanged.
Momentum sits with Dungannon Swifts, winners of their last four, having scored in 15 consecutive games.
The head-to-head ledger counts 13 games: 6 Dungannon Swifts wins, 6 for Carrick Rangers, 1 draw, at 3.85 goals per meeting. Home advantage is real in this fixture: whoever hosted won 62% of the meetings. History points to goals: 77% of the meetings had three or more, and both sides scored in 69%.
Stangmore Park in Dungannon stages the fixture, a ground that holds 5,000.