Shamrock Rovers vs Cork City Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Shamrock Rovers

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Shamrock Rovers will be looking to improve on their last outing here after the 0-1 Conference League losing effort in their last game against Molde FK.

In that match, Shamrock Rovers managed 53% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Molde had 11 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Magnus Wolff Eikrem (10') scored for Molde FK. The game was won 4-5 by Molde FK on penalties.

Over their past 6 games, Stephen Bradley's Shamrock Rovers have found the net a total of 6 times resulting in an average number of goals per match equal to 1.

Looking at their past form shows that Shamrock Rovers:

• have not been beaten in the league by Cork City in their last 2 games.
• have not been beaten in their last 2 home league matches.

Cork City

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Last time out, Cork City drew 2-2 in the Premier Division tie with Galway United.

In that game, Cork City managed 51% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. For Cork City, goals were scored by Malik Dijksteel (34') and Greg Bolger (51'). Galway United had 14 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Patrick Hickey (45') and Vincent Borden (81') scored for Galway United.

The stats tell the story, and Cork City have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 12 goals overall. At the back, Cork City seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly. We will have to see whether or not that trend will end up being sustained in this game.

Pre-game facts show that Cork City:

• have not beaten Shamrock Rovers in games played away from home for the previous 8 league matches. A very poor run of away results.
• are without a win away from home in their last 2 league games.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their prior head to head clashes stretching back to 31/08/2020 tells us that Shamrock Rovers have won 3 of these and Cork City 1, with the tally of drawn games standing at 2.

A total of 18 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 11 of them for The Hoops and 7 created by The Rebel Army. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.

The last league game featuring these clubs was Premier Division match day 33 on 30/10/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Cork City 0-0 Shamrock Rovers.

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

At the other end, Shamrock Rovers got 20 attempts on goal with 6 on target.

The match was refereed by Robert Hennessy.

📰 Team News: Shamrock Rovers

In all likelihood, The Hoops will possibly use the 5-3-2 system for this one featuring Edward McGinty, Josh Honohan, Daniel Cleary, Roberto Lopes, Lee Grace, Adam Matthews, Daniel Mandroiu, Gary O'Neil, Dylan Watts, Michael Noonan and Graham Burke.

🗞️ Team News: Cork City

Cork City manager Tim Clancy has to currently contend with reduced team options. Evan McLaughlin (unknown injury) and Harry Nevin (unknown injury) miss out here.

We reckon that The Rebel Army appear most likely to begin the game with a 3-5-2 lineup, going with Tein Troost, Rio Shipston, Charlie Lyons, Benny Couto, Freddie Anderson, Cathal O'Sullivan, Malik Dijksteel, Darragh Crowley, Greg Bolger, Ruairi Keating and Sean Maguire.

💡 Prediction

Our thinking is that Shamrock Rovers will, in all likelihood, be able to create a good number of chances & successful shots on target.

At the same time, Cork City might well find it a difficult task to score themselves but we do think that it’s more than likely that they will be managing to get on the scoresheet, too.

Accordingly, we see a controlled 3-1 win for Shamrock Rovers come full-time.

Lucas Pereira, 09:12 22/02/2025