📊 Form Guide

Sligo Rovers

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Sligo Rovers will be looking for an improved result here after a 3-0 Premier Division loss in their previous game against Shamrock Rovers.

In that match, Sligo Rovers had 33% possession and 5 attempts at goal with 3 on target. For their opponents, Shamrock Rovers had 21 attempts at goal with 11 on target. Graham Burke (36') and Aaron Greene (50', 63') scored for Shamrock Rovers.

A common characteristic of more recent Sligo Rovers games is the number of nil scores.

From their prior 6 matches before this one, in 5 of them a wager on BTTS would've been a loser. Previous results aside, we must now wait to see if that trend will be replicated in this next match.

Going into this encounter, Sligo Rovers are undefeated in their last 2 league matches at home.

Dundalk

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Following on from tasting defeat last time out to Bohemian FC in Premier Division action, Dundalk will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Dundalk had 56% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 0 on target. Bohemian FC had 10 shots at goal with 4 on target. James Akintunde (80') scored for Bohemian FC.

It is worth noting that Dundalk have been starved of goals over their previous 6 clashes, recording the unsatisfactory return of just 2. In those matches, The Lilywhites have also seen the overall goal aggregate of opposing teams equal 7.

Analysis of their past results shows that Dundalk:

• haven't been beaten by Sligo Rovers in games played away from home for the previous 4 matches in the league. A very decent away record against them.
• are without a win away from home in their last 5 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their past head to head clashes dating back to 21/10/2022 shows that Sligo Rovers have won 2 of these games and Dundalk 3, with the number of draws being 1.

A combined sum of 18 goals were produced between them in this period, with 10 from The Bit o' Red and 8 belonging to The Lilywhites. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.

📋 Team News: Sligo Rovers

There is just a single fitness concern for the Sligo Rovers boss John Russell to be concerned about from a near full-strength group. John Mahon (Achilles tendon problems) will miss out. Simon Power will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.

📋 Team News: Dundalk

Due to a completely healthy group available for selection, the Dundalk manager Liam Burns doesn’t have any fitness worries to speak of coming into this game.

⚡ Prediction

Our assessment is that Dundalk will likely be able to score against this Sligo Rovers team, however that probably won’t be as many as they’ll concede.

We can see a 2-1 win for Sligo Rovers at full-time. We’ll have to see what happens.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 18:05 19/04/2024