Shamrock Rovers vs Drogheda United Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Shamrock Rovers

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Shamrock Rovers, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 3-2 Premier Division victory over St. Patrick's Athletic.

For Shamrock Rovers, goals were scored by Lee Grace (45') and Richie Towell (68', 89'). Mark Doyle (28') and Ben McCormack (84') scored for St. Patrick's Athletic.

Shamrock Rovers haven’t had any problems with scoring, netting in each and every one of their last 6 matches.

They have hit an aggregate of 14 during that period while also conceding a total of 3. Let’s see whether or not that trend can be sustained in this game.

A look at their previous results shows us that Shamrock Rovers:

• are unbeaten in the league by Drogheda United in their last 3 games.
• have not beaten Drogheda United in their last 4 matches in the league.

Drogheda United

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Since a losing effort in their last game against St. Patrick's Athletic in Premier Division action, Drogheda United will be hoping to turn things around here.

Jason McClelland (82') and Chris Forrester (90', 92') scored for St. Patrick's Athletic.

The stats don’t lie, and Drogheda United have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 11 goals in all. At the back, Drogheda United have not been doing too well.

Pre-game facts show that Drogheda United:

• haven't won against Shamrock Rovers when having played them away from home in the previous 7 league matches. Not good at all.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 3 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their past head to head clashes dating back to 28/02/2022 tells us that Shamrock Rovers have won 2 of these games & Drogheda United 1, with the number of drawn matches being 3.

A sum of 14 goals were scored between them in these games, with 8 for The Hoops and 6 created by The Drogs. That is an average goals per game value of 2.33.

📰 Team News: Shamrock Rovers

Liam Burt (Unknown Injury) and Alan Mannus (Finger Injury) are not available for Shamrock Rovers gaffer Stephen Bradley.

It’s our opinion that The Hoops may well employ a 3-4-3 system for this one with Leon Pöhls, Daniel Cleary, Roberto Lopes, Lee Grace, Ronan Finn, Gary O'Neil, Richard Towell, Trevor Clarke, Jack Byrne, Rory Gaffney and Graham Burke.

ℹ️ Team News: Drogheda United

With a fully healthy group to choose from, the Drogheda United manager Kevin Doherty does not have any fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this clash.

It’s our belief that The Drogs might elect for a 4-3-1-2 lineup, starting the game with Colin McCabe, Emre Topcu, Conor Keeley, Emmanuel Adegboyega, Dayle Rooney, Ryan Brennan, Gary Deegan, Darragh Markey, Dylan Grimes, Aaron McNally and Freddie Draper.

✨ Prediction

Our assessment is that Shamrock Rovers will probably score at least once when they meet Drogheda United, who won’t find it easy getting goals.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a fairly comfortable 2-0 winning margin for Shamrock Rovers at the end of the match.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 23:48 14/05/2023