Athlone are going up against visiting club Bray Wanderers at Athlone Town Stadium in the First Division tie on Friday.
View all Athlone v Bray Wanderers tips, stats and our pre-match poll below - as well as the best betting odds.
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Form Guide
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Athlone
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Athlone enter this fixture following a 0-0 First Division tied result versus Finn Harps.
Gordon Brett's Athlone have netted a sum total of 7 times in their preceding six outings. The corresponding number of goals that have been scored against them in those fixtures is 10.
Bray Wanderers
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Following on from tasting defeat last time out to Kerry in First Division action, Bray Wanderers will be hoping to turn things around here.
The only scorer from Bray Wanderers was Max Murphy (51').
Bray Wanderers have had no problems opening up opposition defences leading up to this encounter, having scored 11 goals in their last 6 matches. Having said that, Bray Wanderers can also improve defensively after being scored against in 6 of those same games. That kind of pattern isn’t assured to be sustained into this match, of course.
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Head to head
Inspecting their prior head-to-head clashes dating back to 10/05/2024 shows that Athlone have won 1 of them and Bray Wanderers 4, with the tally of drawn games being 1.
A combined sum of 14 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 5 from The Town and 9 coming from The Seagulls. That is an average goals per game value of 2.33.
The previous league match featuring the two was First Division match day 15 on 16/05/2025 when it ended Bray Wanderers 3-1 Athlone.
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Prediction
When taking all factors into account, Bray Wanderers and Athlone could end up without much reward for their efforts here.
We’ll have to see, but a draw might be on the cards. With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a very even match with a 0-0 draw at the end of the match.
Victor Martins,
11:00 23/06/2025
Odds correct at time of publishing. All odds subject to change.
⚽️ Team Focus:
Athlone
Formed: 1887
Stadium: Athlone Town Stadium (5,000)
Captain: Oisin Duffy
Chairman: John Hayden
Manager: Gordon Brett
Competitions: First Division position 10, FAI Cup (Second Round)