📊 Form Guide

UCD

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UCD will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 0-1 First Division defeat in their last game at the hands of Bray Wanderers.

Max Murphy (23') scored for Bray Wanderers.

UCD haven’t made the most of their chances in more recent games. Their ‘goals for’ figure equals just 4 against opposition teams during their previous 6 matches. In those games, UCD have also seen the number of goals scored against them total 5. It will be interesting to see whether or not that trend can be continued on here.

Their prior results show that UCD:

• have not registered a win against Dundalk in their last 4 league games.
• are without a home win in the past 7 league matches. Fans are getting restless.

Dundalk

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Dundalk will go into this meeting following a 3-0 First Division win to beat Wexford in their most recent match.

For Dundalk, goals were scored by Leonardo Gaxha (66', 78') and Sean Keogh (70').

Over the course of their previous six clashes, Dundalk have bagged a total of 12 goals. Dundalk have additionally got on the scoresheet on each one of those occasions. During that period, they’ve had 4 goals go against them.

A look at their previous results shows us that Dundalk:

• haven't been defeated by UCD in away games against them for the last 2 league games.
• are undefeated in their previous 5 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their most recent head-to-head meetings stretching back to 01/07/2022 tells us that UCD have won 1 of these games and Dundalk 4, with the number of drawn matches being 1.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 23 in all which averages out at 3.83 goals per meeting.

The last league meeting featuring these clubs was Premier Division match day 36 on 03/11/2023 when it finished UCD 1-5 Dundalk.

On that occasion, UCD managed 26% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 2 on target. The scorer was Michael Gallagher (6').

Dundalk had 23 attempts at goal with 10 on target. Paul Doyle (33'), Daryl Horgan (64'), Daniel Kelly (68') and Patrick Hoban (70', 86') scored.

The referee was Kevin O'Sullivan.

💭 Prediction

We feel that over the course of the game, UCD will have to work hard as a team to register a score against this Dundalk side who should do enough to score at the other end and edge ahead.

We’re therefore anticipating a good tussle with a 0-1 winning score for Dundalk when the referee blows for full-time.

Should be an interesting one.

Victor Martins, 18:08 04/04/2025