Portadown vs Carrick Rangers betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the Premiership match on November 09th, 2024

Portadown will be playing against Carrick Rangers in a Premiership football match scheduled to take place on Saturday, November 09th, 2024, at 15:00h (UTC), in Northern Ireland, check the Portadown vs Carrick Rangers betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Portadown vs Carrick Rangers will occur

The game will be played in the small Shamrock Park stadium, in the city of Portadown, with a capacity for 5804 spectators, that will try to help the team achieve a positive result.

Where to follow the live game

Including statistics, events and odds, you can follow the match live at Betarena, with access to all the information to help with your sports betting.

Introduction to the Portadown vs Carrick Rangers betting tip 2024/2025

The Premiership has had fewer goals than the previous season. Last season the tournament had an average of 3.11 goals scored per match, while now the competition has an average of 2.54 goals per match played.

Portadown last match

Portadown in its last official match won (0-3) against Ballymena United, in a match valid for Premiership.

A win for the home team had odds of 3.75, which makes it clear that a close match was expected.

Carrick Rangers last match

On the other hand, the visiting team arrives at this match after a defeat in the previous event. In a dispute valid for Premiership, Carrick Rangers faced the Linfield team, and the score ended with a 1-3 for their rivals.

This defeat was something that was already predicted before the game. The odds for their win, 5.75 indicated as much.

Portadown vs Carrick Rangers h2h

The last time these teams met was for a Premiership match, on 07-09-2024, referring to the 2024/2025 season, which ended with a 0-1 win for Portadown.

The last time these two teams faced off, neither team had a decisive advantage.

The Portadown team in the last five matches has achieved more regular results, with a total of 3 wins, compared to the Carrick Rangers team, which won only 2 games.

Curiosity about previous games

The two teams had very different results in their previous games. While Portadown thrashed in a game that was not expected to be so easy, against Ballymena United, Carrick Rangers lost in a match against Linfield. Let's see how this previous result can interfere with the morale of the teams for this game.

It is important to note that much of this opposing scenario is due to the performance of Shay McCartan, who had a brilliant performance and was key in the impressive team victory.

Portadown

Premiership leaderboard now

The Portadown team with 21 points currently occupies the 6th place of the leaderboard, being in the qualifying place for the Championship Round, with a campaign of 6 wins, 3 draws and 5 losses.

This means that in the 16th round, the Glentoran team is closing in at 7th place, with no points difference separating them.

Portadown analysis

After 15 rounds, Portadown has a positive ratio of goals scored and goals against. The team sums 20 goals for and 16 conceded.

Portadown average of shots on goal is certainly not the brightest, but that cannot be said about the accuracy of getting on goal. In fact, the team has shot 2.5 times on goal, but has a goal-scoring average of 1.43. Basically, for every 5 shots on goal, it scores 2 goals.

Portadown, with a ball possession of 44% per game on average, is not the team that imposes its game, and rather prefers a tactic devoted to waiting and counterattacks. However, in the match against Carrick Rangers of 2024/2025 they will have to do something more, try to maintain possession of the ball and attack the opponent's goal with more continuity.

In comparison to Carrick Rangers 460 attacks and 14 goals, Portadown has had 636 attacks and 20 goals.

Best goalscorer from Portadown

If we want to highlight a player from the team's attack at this stage, we have to name Ryan Mayse. The Midfielder scored 6 goals in the current season, helping Portadown to achieve victory in several disputes.

Carrick Rangers

Premiership leaderboard now

With 11 points won, Carrick Rangers is in 11th place on the leaderboard, which leaves the team in the Relegation Round zone. The team's campaign so far is 3 wins against 9 losses, plus 2 draws.

Which means that in the 16th round, the team has, the same score that the Loughgall team who is in the position 12.

Carrick Rangers analysis

Carrick Rangers counted 14 goals scored and 27 conceded at the end of Premiership day number 15.

The team's scoring ability is not brilliant: in this league it is 1 goals per game on average, and this may be an indicator on the chances of winning the next match, which the team will also play away from home.

Best goalscorer from Carrick Rangers

In this season, the individual highlight is Daniel Purkis that has dominated the offensive side. The Attacker has already scored 4 times this season, becoming crucial in the positive results that Carrick Rangers achieved in several matches.

It should also be noted that 1 of the goals scored by the player were from the penalty spot.

For bettors some entries may be interesting for this game, namely:

Goals Top Betting Tips

It can also be interesting to bet on who will score in this match. The featured player of Portadown is Ryan Mayse, who has already scored 6 goals in the competition. On the other hand, the leading scorer of Carrick Rangers is Daniel Purkis, he has scored in 4 opportunities.

Most goals are scored between 75-90 as some study shows, which makes this a good time to bet for those following the live game.

Taking into consideration that Carrick Rangers scores an average of 0.57 goals per match when playing away, we should consider the under 2.5 betting market, especially because this team usually does not concede goals when playing out of their stadium.

Currently, at Bet365, the odds for the Total Goals Under 2.5 market are quoted at 2.

Corners Top Betting Tips

One will find that combining the number of corners of both teams gives an average of 2.25 corners per game, making this something to note in attempting to obtain good betting results.

Cards Top Betting Tips

Highly disciplined, the teams have an average of only 3.73 yellow cards per match, when added together. In other words, the 'Under 4.5 cards' option looks like a great alternative for bettors.

This is a match with several good betting entries to have some return on sports betting.

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