Derry City vs UCD Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Derry City

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Derry City are hoping to win again following the 3-0 Premier Division triumph versus Dundalk.

For Derry City, the goalscorers were Jordan McEneff (20'), Brandon Kavanagh (60') and Michael Duffy (83').

A common aspect of more recent Derry City games is the high number of scores with a nil in them.

From their prior sextet of clashes before this one, in as many as 5 of them a bet on "Both Teams to Score" would've been a loser.

Going into this one, Derry City have not lost a league tie with UCD in their previous 9 matches. A decent run, indeed.

UCD

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Since a loss in their previous game against Shamrock Rovers in Premier Division competition, UCD will be hoping to turn things around here.

The only name on the scoresheet from UCD was Adam Wells (71' Own goal). Trevor Clarke (17') and Aaron Greene (53') scored for Shamrock Rovers.

The forward players for UCD have suffered from a shortage of goals in their past 6 games, recording the unsatisfactory return of only 3. In those fixtures, The Students have also seen the collective goal aggregate of opposing teams equal 10. Let’s see if that trend will end up being continued on here.

Their past results show that UCD:

• have not beaten Derry City in games played away from home for the previous 4 league matches. They'll be keen to stop this run.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 7 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of past results between these clubs stretching back to 02/08/2019 reveals that these encounters have been a source of anguish for UCD. They have not been able to get themselves any victories whatsoever whereas Derry City have simply been better than them, finishing as winners in 100% of those matches.

There were also goals galore in those games, with 22 in total at an average of 3.67 goals per meeting.

🗞️ Team News: Derry City

Ciaron Harkin (Cruciate Ligament Injury) and Mark Connolly (Hamstring Injury) will not be taking part for Derry City boss Ruaidhrí Higgins.

It seems likely that The Candystripes will probably line up in a 4-4-1-1 formation in the match and select Brian Maher, Ronan Boyce, Shane McEleney, Cameron McJannett, Ben Doherty, Brandon Kavanagh, Adam O'Reilly, Sadou Diallo, Michael Duffy, Jordan McEneff and Cian Kavanagh.

📋 Team News: UCD

Due to a fully injury-free group available for selection, the UCD manager Andy Myler does not have any fitness concerns to report before this clash.

It’s our belief that The Students appear most likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 lineup by sending out Kian Moore, Michael Gallagher, Jack Keaney, Adam Wells, Evan Osam, Luke O'Regan, Donal Higgins, Daniel Norris, Ciaran Behan, Alex Nolan and Danu Bishop.

🧠 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Derry City should see a lot of the ball and convert quite a few goal-scoring opportunities.

At the same time, UCD will not find it easy finding the net themselves but we do think it’s quite likely that they will be managing to get on the scoresheet here.

We can therefore see a decent 3-1 win for Derry City when all’s said and done.

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Renata Leite, 23:48 14/05/2023