About Match
On paper the standings are lopsided — Coleraine 1st with 22 points, Portadown 12th with 1, 21 apart. Per game in the league, Coleraine score 2.25 and conceding 0.63, Portadown 0.63 and 2.13, against a competition average of 1.34 goals per team per game.
Coleraine arrive on a run of six straight wins, having scored in 6 consecutive games. Portadown have gone 8 games without a win. Recent form is uneven: 15/15 points for Coleraine, 1/15 for Portadown.
11 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Coleraine 8, draws 3, Portadown 0, at 2.73 goals per meeting. Goals tend to flow: 64% of the meetings produced three or more.
The venue is The Showgrounds in Coleraine, with room for 2,496 spectators.