Athlone vs Wexford Prediction & Betting Tips

Wexford will visit Athlone Town Stadium on Friday for the First Division meeting with home side Athlone.

Our Athlone v Wexford predictions, statistics and match poll can be seen below - as well as up-to-date odds.

📊 Form Guide

Athlone LLDLLL 📉

Athlone will be wanting a better result here after a 2-0 League of Ireland Cup loss in their previous game against Galway United.

It has been all too rare in recent games where Athlone have kept a clean sheet. The facts show that The Town have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 15 goals on the way. That kind of pattern might not be carried forward into this match, though.

Wexford LLDLDL 📉

Following on from suffering a loss in their previous game against Bray Wanderers in League of Ireland Cup competition, Wexford and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

The attacking players from Wexford have made hard work of scoring goals over their previous six games, contributing the disappointing return of only 4. In those fixtures, The Warriors have also seen the overall goal tally of their opponents equal 11.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head meetings going back to 20/04/2018, both clubs have shared the honours with Athlone winning 3 of those games, Wexford 3 and 0 being drawn in normal time.

There were also plenty of goals scored in those games, 24 in total which averages out at 4 goals per match.

🗞️ Team News: Athlone

Athlone boss Terry Butler will be happy not to have any fitness worries at all before this game owing to a fully injury-free group available for selection.

ℹ️ Team News: Wexford

Thanks to a completely healthy squad available to choose from, Wexford manager Brian O'Sullivan does not have any fitness concerns to speak of before this game.

⚡ Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Wexford and Athlone may both struggle to make a breakthrough here.

We’ll see, but this could easily end up all-square. We’re therefore predicting a close game with a 0-0 draw at the end of the match.

Victor Martins, 04:01 27/07/2020