📊 Form Guide

Shamrock Rovers

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Shamrock Rovers will be looking for a repeat result of the 2-0 Premier Division success over Waterford.

For Shamrock Rovers, the goalscorers were Aaron McEneff (33') and Lee Grace (84').

Their more recent scorelines highlight the fact that huge efforts have been put in by the Shamrock Rovers rearguard. Shamrock Rovers have kept it tight, with the tally of goals that have gone in at their end over the course of their past 6 games standing at 3.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Shamrock Rovers:

• are unbeaten in the league by Cork City in their last 2 matches.
• are unbeaten in their last 5 home league matches.

Cork City

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After a losing effort in their last game against St. Patrick's Athletic in Premier Division competition, Cork City will be hoping to turn things around here.

Chris Forrester (43') and Brandon Kavanagh (45') scored for St. Patrick's Athletic.

The numbers tell their own story, and Cork City have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, conceding 9 goals in total. At the back, Cork City have not been doing too well. With no two games being the same, we must now wait to see if the trend shall be replicated in this next game or not.

Leading up to this clash, Cork City:

• have not beaten Shamrock Rovers when they have played them away from home in the previous 8 league matches. A really bad run.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 5 league games.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 31/08/2020 shows us that Shamrock Rovers have won 3 of these games & Cork City 1, with the number of drawn matches standing at 2.

A sum of 18 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 11 for The Hoops and 7 coming from The Rebel Army. That’s an average goals per game of 3.

The previous league clash between these sides was Premier Division match day 33 on 30/10/2023 and the score finished Cork City 0-0 Shamrock Rovers.

In that game, Cork City managed 36% possession and 6 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.

At the other end, Shamrock Rovers had 20 shots at goal with 6 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Robert Hennessy.

📋 Team News: Shamrock Rovers

We think that The Hoops will possibly use the 3-5-2 system for this game with Edward McGinty, Joshua Honohan, Roberto Lopes, Lee Grace, Daniel Grant, Matthew Healy, Gary O'Neil, Daniel Cleary, Dylan Watts, Michael Noonan and Aaron Greene.

📋 Team News: Cork City

From our viewpoint, The Rebel Army seem most likely to elect for a 4-3-3 lineup with a starting lineup of Tein Troost, Darragh Crowley, Freddie Anderson, Charlie Lyons, Benny Couto, Greg Bolger, Rio Shipston, Sean Murray, Malik Dijksteel, Sean Maguire and Ruairi Keating.

💭 Prediction

It’s looking like Cork City will have to play really well to break down a Shamrock Rovers outfit who should get the goals that they need to set up a big win here.

We’re therefore predicting a very comprehensive 3-0 margin for Shamrock Rovers when the full-time whistle blows.

Victor Martins, 18:04 14/04/2025