Cork City vs St. Patrick's Athletic Live Stream, Predictions (Jun 27)

📏 Form Guide

Cork City

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Cork City will be hoping to return to winning ways here after the 4-1 Premier Division defeat last time out to Shamrock Rovers.

In that game, Cork City managed 45% possession and 12 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Cork City was Alex Nolan (69'). On the other side, Shamrock Rovers got 15 attempts at goal with 8 on target. Michael Noonan (6', 29'), Roberto Lopes (26') and Rory Gaffney (49') scored for Shamrock Rovers.

Cork City have not been the best at stopping their opponents of late, although they have also found ways to score goals themselves. Looking at their last 6 games, Cork City have been punished defensively in 6 of them while also getting on the scoresheet in 5 of those games. That kind of trend won’t necessarily be carried forward into this next game, of course.

St. Patrick's Athletic

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Following on from tasting defeat last time out to Galway United in Premier Division competition, St. Patrick's Athletic and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that game, St. Patrick's Athletic had 66% possession and 22 attempts on goal with 11 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for St. Patrick's Athletic was Simon Power (33'). At the other end, Galway United had 15 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. Ed McCarthy (2'), David Hurley (11') and Rob Slevin (35') scored for Galway United.

The forward players for St. Patrick's Athletic have suffered from a lack of goals over their previous six clashes, netting the disappointing return of only 4. In those matches, Saints have also seen the overall goal tally of opposing teams equal 10.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their past head to head meetings going back to 05/05/2023 shows that these fixtures have not been good ones for Cork City. They’ve not managed to register any victories whatsoever while St. Patrick's Athletic have been dominant against them, finishing as winners in 83 per cent of those ties.

A sum of 17 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 5 of them for The Rebel Army and 12 coming from Saints. The average goals per game has been 2.83.

The last league encounter between these clubs was Premier Division match day 16 on 16/05/2025 which ended up with the score at St. Patrick's Athletic 3-2 Cork City.

That time, St. Patrick's Athletic had 52% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. The goals were scored by Mason Melia (14'), Zachary Elbouzedi (89') and Jamie Lennon (95').

Cork City had 10 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Charlie Lyons (56') and Seán Maguire (78') scored.

The referee was Paul Norton.

ℹ️ Team News: Cork City

Conor Drinan (Cruciate ligament injury), Benny Couto (Ankle injury) and Ruairi Keating (Achilles tendon rupture) won’t be playing for Cork City gaffer Gerard Nash.

ℹ️ Team News: St. Patrick's Athletic

In an otherwise healthy group, there is only a single fitness problem for the St. Patrick's Athletic gaffer Stephen Kenny to contend with. Romal Palmer (Hamstring injury) misses out for this game.

⚡ Prediction

We’re envisaging that Cork City will have a tough ask to put one past this St. Patrick's Athletic outfit who we reckon should end up scoring and staying ahead.

That’s why our selection here is for a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 0-1 victory for St. Patrick's Athletic at the end of the 90.

Should be a close one.

📚 ⚽️ What are the top odds for this match?

Checking the betting prices for this game in the win-draw-win market, victory for Cork City is available for 4, going for a drawn result is 3.6 and taking a punt on a win for St. Patrick's Athletic is 1.82. They’re the best of the returns that can be secured as of now.

Peter Guest, 08:00 23/06/2025