UCD vs Athlone Live Stream, Predictions (May 30)

📊 Form Guide

UCD

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UCD are hoping to win again following a 1-2 First Division success vs Finn Harps.

The only scorer from UCD was Mikey Raggett (90').

UCD have not been in good attacking form in recent times. Their ‘goals for’ figure equals just 4 against opposition teams during the course of their previous 6 matches. In those meetings, UCD have also seen the number of goals scored against them come to 9. Let’s find out if that trend can be sustained in this game.

Pre-game facts show that UCD:

• have not won against Athlone in their last 4 matches in the league.
• haven’t won at home in the past 7 league matches. Things will have to change soon.

Athlone

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Since being beaten in their last game against Cobh Ramblers in First Division action, Athlone will be aiming to make amends here.

The only player to score from Athlone was Gideon Tetteh (57', 78'). Barry Coffey (2', 23') was the scorer for Cobh Ramblers.

Gordon Brett's Athlone have had reason to celebrate scoring a total of 6 times in the course of their latest 6 matches. The number of goals that have been scored against them during that same period comes to 8.

👥 Head to head

A look at their most recent head to head clashes stretching back to 13/08/2021 shows us that UCD have won 2 of these games & Athlone 3, with the number of draws standing at 1.

A combined total of 20 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 13 of them from The Students and 7 being from The Town. That’s an average goals per game of 3.33.

The last league clash between these clubs was First Division match day 5 on 14/03/2025 and the score finished Athlone 2-1 UCD.

💡 Prediction

We think that Athlone will really need to work well to score against this UCD side who we think will be able to grind out a win.

That’s why our selection here is for a 1-0 win for UCD when the referee blows for full-time.

Looking forward to this.

Peter Guest, 03:02 29/05/2025