Match Report
The points column showed no gap: 7 apiece, Portadown U20 4th and Cliftonville U20 3rd. Against a league average of 1.95 goals per team per game, Portadown U20 ran at 2 scored and 1.75 conceded, Cliftonville U20 at 2 and 1.5.
Portadown U20 had lost three in a row, having scored in 7 consecutive games.
The sides have met 10 times in the GioScore results database: 1 win for Portadown U20, 4 draws and 5 for Cliftonville U20, at 3.1 goals per meeting. Whoever hosts gains little here: home teams have taken just 30% of the wins in this fixture. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 80% of the meetings, and both sides scored in 70%. Where history says 3.1 goals per meeting, the last five say 2.2.




