📊 Form Guide

Cork City

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Cork City will be hoping to return to winning ways here following the 3-2 Premier Division defeat in their last game at the hands of Drogheda United.

In that match, Cork City managed 50% possession and 5 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Cork City was Djenairo Daniels (7', 85'). Drogheda United got 17 shots on goal with 4 on target. Shane Farrell (40'), Warren Davis (62') and Ryan Brennan (96') scored for Drogheda United.

Cork City have not been the best at stopping their opponents recently, but they’ve also managed to convert their own chances into goals. Over their last 6 matches, Cork City have seen their goal breached in 6 of them as well as managing to get on the scoresheet in 5 of those matches. That sort of trend might not follow through into this game, of course.

Taking a look at their past results, Cork City:

• haven't won against Derry City in their previous 11 league games.
• are unbeaten in their previous 2 home league matches.

Derry City

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Derry City go into this clash following on from a 1-0 Premier Division win with the defeat of St. Patrick's Athletic in their previous outing.

In that match, Derry City had 44% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. The only player to score for Derry City was Danny Mullen (48'). On the other side, St. Patrick's Athletic had 9 shots at goal with 5 of them on target.

In a total of 5 out of the previous 6 games featuring Derry City, three or more goals have been hit. The overall average goals scored per game in that time is 3.33, with the number of goals averaged by Derry City equalling 2.

Coming into this contest, Derry City have not been beaten by Cork City when having played them away from home in the previous 5 league matches. Away fans have certainly had plenty to cheer about.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over past results between these clubs stretching back to 24/02/2023 tells us that these encounters have not been kind to Cork City. They have not been able to come away with any victories at all while Derry City have simply been better than them, getting wins in 100% of those games played.

An aggregate of 13 goals were scored between them in these games, with 2 of them from The Rebel Army and 11 netted by The Candystripes. That is an average goals per game value of 2.17.

The last league contest between these sides was Premier Division match day 8 on 04/04/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Derry City 2-1 Cork City.

In that match, Derry City had 56% possession and 18 shots at goal with 7 on target. Goals were scored by Ronan Boyce (65') and Michael Duffy (74').

For their opponents, Cork City had 4 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Kitt Nelson (14') was the scorer.

The referee was Aaron O'Dowd.

🗞️ Team News: Cork City

Benny Couto (Ankle injury), Milan Mbeng (unknown injury), Conor Drinan (unknown injury), Malik Dijksteel (unknown injury), Sean Maguire (Hamstring injury), Greg Bolger (Knock) and Ruairi Keating (Achilles tendon rupture) won’t be available for Cork City manager Tim Clancy.

ℹ️ Team News: Derry City

Derry City manager Tiernan Lynch has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Sadou Diallo (Broken arm) and Cameron Dummigan (Hamstring injury) will miss out on this game.

🧠 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Cork City could well find it tough to get anything against this Derry City side who we reckon will manage to get a goal of their own in a winning performance.

We therefore fancy a very even contest with a 0-1 winning margin for Derry City when the referee blows for full-time.

We’re expecting it to be that close.

Renata Leite, 18:08 09/05/2025