Cork City vs Waterford Live Stream, Predictions (Apr 21)

📊 Form Guide

Cork City

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Cork City will be hoping for a better result after a 1-0 Premier Division defeat last time out to Bohemian FC.

It’s been seldom in recent times that Cork City haven’t conceded. In fact, Cork City have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 6 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 11 goals in the process.

Waterford

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Since being beaten in their last game against Sligo Rovers in Premier Division action, Waterford will be aiming to make amends here.

The stats tell the story, and Waterford have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 11 goals in total. At the back, Waterford seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly. That kind of pattern might not be carried forward into this match, of course.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Waterford:

• haven't won against Cork City when having played them away from home in the previous 3 league matches.
• are without a win away from home in their last 3 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A look at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 18/04/2022 shows that Cork City have won 3 of them and Waterford 2, with the number of draws standing at 1.

A total of 15 goals were produced between them in these games, with 9 for The Rebel Army and 6 being from The Blues. The average goals per game has been 2.5.

ℹ️ Team News: Cork City

Conor Drinan (unknown injury), Malik Dijksteel (unknown injury), Sean Maguire (Hamstring injury) and Ruairi Keating (Achilles tendon rupture) won’t be playing for Cork City boss Tim Clancy.

ℹ️ Team News: Waterford

Waterford manager Keith Long has some current player fitness concerns. Matty Smith (Knee injury) and Andy Boyle (Hamstring injury) can’t be considered.

✨ Prediction

In this match, Waterford must be fancied to put a goal past this Cork City lineup, but that is unlikely to be enough to avoid a loss.

Our selection here is for a very close game with a 2-1 win for Cork City by the conclusion of the game. Hopefully this is a good one.

📚 ⚽️ What are the top odds for the game?

Regarding the current betting odds on the 90 min. result market, victory for Cork City is best priced at 2.2, betting on the draw is 3.2 & betting on victory for Waterford comes in at 2.88. They’re the most competitive bets available at this very moment.

Lucas Pereira, 02:13 19/04/2025