📏 Form Guide

UCD

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UCD, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following a 1-2 First Division triumph against Finn Harps.

The only player to score from UCD was Mikey Raggett (90').

UCD have not been in good attacking form in recent times. Their ‘goals for’ figure equals just 4 against opposition teams during the course of their previous 6 matches. In those meetings, UCD have also seen the number of goals scored against them come to 9. Let’s find out if that trend can be sustained in this game.

Pre-game facts show that UCD:

• have not won against Athlone in their last 4 matches in the league.
• haven’t won at home in the past 7 league matches. Things will have to change soon.

Athlone

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Since being defeated in their last game at the hands of Cobh Ramblers in First Division action, Athlone will be aiming to make amends here.

The only name on the scoresheet from Athlone was Gideon Tetteh (57', 78'). Barry Coffey (2', 23') was the scorer for Cobh Ramblers.

Gordon Brett's Athlone have had reason to celebrate scoring a total of 6 times in the course of their latest 6 matches. The number of goals that have been scored against them during that same period comes to 8.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their past head-to-head clashes going back to 13/08/2021 shows us that UCD have won 2 of them and Athlone 3, with the number of drawn games being 1.

An aggregate of 20 goals were scored between them in these games, with 13 of them from The Students and 7 being from The Town. The average goals per game has been 3.33.

The last league meeting between these sides was First Division match day 5 on 14/03/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Athlone 2-1 UCD.

⚡ Prediction

We think that Athlone will really need to work well to score against this UCD side who we think will be able to grind out a win.

That’s why our selection here is for a 1-0 win for UCD when the referee blows for full-time.

Looking forward to this.

Peter Guest, 18:02 30/05/2025