Cork City vs Drogheda United Live Stream, Predictions (Jun 23)

📊 Form Guide

Cork City

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Cork City will be wanting a better result here after the 4-1 Premier Division loss in their previous game against Shamrock Rovers.

In that game, Cork City had 45% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 3 on target. The scorer for Cork City was Alex Nolan (69'). Shamrock Rovers got 15 attempts at goal with 8 on target. Michael Noonan (6', 29'), Roberto Lopes (26') and Rory Gaffney (49') scored for Shamrock Rovers.

It has been seldom in recent games that Cork City have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, Cork City have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 11 goals in the process. That trend isn’t assured to be carried forward into this match, of course.

Their prior results show that Cork City:

• have left without a victory over Drogheda United in their previous 4 matches in the league.
• are without a win at home for the past 4 league matches. Things will have to change soon.

Drogheda United

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Drogheda United head into the clash following on from a 1-0 Premier Division win with the downing of Sligo Rovers in their last game.

In that match, Drogheda United managed 36% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. The scorer for Drogheda United was Douglas James-Taylor (3'). For their opponents, Sligo Rovers had 15 attempts at goal with 4 on target.

A series of dependable performances from the Drogheda United defence has seen the number of goals they’ve conceded standing at 4 from their past 6 outings overall. In that period of time, their own forwards have managed to score 5.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Drogheda United:

• haven't won against Cork City in away games against them for the last 9 matches in the league. Very poor away form.
• remain undefeated by Cork City in away games against them for the last 3 matches in the league.
• are without a win away from home in their last 6 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head to head clashes going back to 31/03/2023 tells us that Cork City have won 1 of these & Drogheda United 2, with the number of draws being 3.

A combined sum of 16 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 7 of them from The Rebel Army and 9 belonging to The Drogs. That is an average goals per game value of 2.67.

The previous league match featuring the two was Premier Division match day 14 on 05/05/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Drogheda United 3-2 Cork City.

That day, Drogheda United had 50% possession and 17 attempts on goal with 4 on target. The goalscorers were Shane Farrell (40'), Warren Davis (62') and Ryan Brennan (96').

On the other side, Cork City had 5 shots on goal with 2 on target. Djenairo Daniels (7', 85') scored.

The referee was Aaron O'Dowd.

📋 Team News: Cork City

Conor Drinan (Cruciate ligament injury), Benny Couto (Ankle injury) and Ruairi Keating (Achilles tendon rupture) are not available for Cork City manager Gerard Nash.

We think that The Rebel Army should employ a 4-1-3-2 formation for this game, handing starts to Tein Troost, Darragh Crowley, Milan Mbeng, Freddie Anderson, Evan McLaughlin, Greg Bolger, Cathal O'Sullivan, Kitt Nelson, Malik Dijksteel, Joshua Fitzpatrick and Djenairo Daniels.

🗞️ Team News: Drogheda United

We are inclined to think that The Drogs appear most likely to play in a 3-4-2-1 lineup, going with Luke Dennison, George Cooper, Conor Keeley, Andrew Quinn, Kieran Cruise, Luke Heeney, Ryan Brennan, Conor Kane, Shane Farrell, Warren Davis and Douglas James-Taylor.

💭 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Cork City will have a tough ask to score against this Drogheda United lineup who we think might emerge victorious.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a hard-fought 0-1 win for Drogheda United at the end of this one.

There should be little in it.

📚 ⚽️ What are the top odds for this match?

Checking on the latest odds for this match in the 90 min. result market, backing Cork City is available for 2.7, backing the game finishing all-square is 3.2 and betting on a win for Drogheda United comes in at 2.3. These are the best of the market prices that can be secured at this very moment.

Victor Martins, 01:01 22/06/2025