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Cork City vs Shamrock Rovers Live Stream, Predictions
📊 Form Guide
Cork City
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Three or more goals per match have been seen in 5 of the past 6 meetings where Cork City have played. Opposition teams scored 15 of them in this period whereas Cork City managed to get a total of 6. Let’s see if that trend can be sustained in this game.
Coming into this meeting, Cork City have not registered a win against Shamrock Rovers in their last 10 matches in the league.
Shamrock Rovers
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In their previous 6 clashes, Shamrock Rovers have bagged the sum of 13 goals. Shamrock Rovers have also managed to score in every single one of those games. During that period, they’ve seen 5 goals go into their own net.
Their past results show that Shamrock Rovers:
- are undefeated by Cork City in away games against them for the last 4 matches in the league. Travelling fans have really enjoyed these clashes.
- are unbeaten in their previous 12 league matches away from home. Travelling very well.
↔️ Head to head
Looking at past results between these clubs stretching back to 28/07/2019 reveals that these fixtures have not been happy ones for Cork City. They have not managed to get themselves any wins at all while Shamrock Rovers have dominated them, running out winners in 67 per cent of those ties.
Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 25 in all at an average of 4.17 goals per match.
🔮 Prediction
We envisage that Cork City must be fancied to get a goal against this Shamrock Rovers side, however a single goal is unlikely to be as many as they will have scored against them.
Our selection here is for a 1-2 victory for Shamrock Rovers at full-time. Let’s see what happens here.
Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Renata Leite, 23:24 21/05/2023

🏟️ Team Focus:
Cork City
Formed: 1984
Stadium: Turners Cross Stadium (7,485)
Captain: Cian Coleman
Chairman: Declan Carey
Manager: Colin Healy
Competitions: Premier Division position 9
⭐ Star Man: Ruairi Keating

Generally deployed in the Striker position, Ruairi Keating was born in Westport, Rep. Ireland. Having made his senior debut playing for Sligo Rovers in the 2014 season, the talented Forward has scored 6 league goals in the Premier Division 2023 campaign to date in a total of 16 appearances.
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17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 34 | LWWWW |
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17 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 18 | 33 | WWWWL |
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16 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 29 | DWLLD |
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17 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 26 | LWWLW |
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17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 26 | WWWLD |
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16 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 24 | WDWWL |
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16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | -3 | 19 | LWLLL |
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16 | 4 | 5 | 7 | -8 | 17 | LDLLW |
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16 | 3 | 3 | 10 | -14 | 12 | LLLLW |
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16 | 1 | 3 | 12 | -27 | 6 | DLLLL |
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Drogheda United |
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Bohemian FC |
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Drogheda United |
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Goals scored | 1.4 |
Goals conceded | 1.4 |
Time first goal scored | 39 |
Time first goal conceded | 23 |
Yellow cards | 1.8 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 3.3 |
Biggest victory | 4-0 |
Biggest defeat | 3-1 |
Goals scored | 1.9 |
Goals conceded | 0.3 |
Time first goal scored | 29 |
Time first goal conceded | 92 |
Yellow cards | 3.5 |
Red cards | 0.4 |
Subs used | 4.5 |
Biggest victory | 4-0 |
Biggest defeat | null |
Ruairi Keating | 7 |
Darragh Crowley | 3 |
Tunde Owolabi | 3 |
Joseph O'Brien-Whitmarsh | 2 |
Kevin Čustović | 1 |
Graham Burke | 6 |
Rory Gaffney | 5 |
Trevor Clarke | 4 |
Johnny Kenny | 4 |
Richie Towell | 4 |
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