Cork City vs St. Patrick's Athletic Live Stream, Predictions (Jun 27)

📏 Form Guide

Cork City

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Cork City will be wanting a better result here following a 4-1 Premier Division losing effort in their last game against Shamrock Rovers.

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

Cork City have not been the best at stopping their opponents of late, although they have also found ways to score goals themselves. Looking at their last 6 games, Cork City have been punished defensively in 6 of them while also getting on the scoresheet in 5 of those games. That kind of trend won’t necessarily be carried forward into this next game, of course.

St. Patrick's Athletic

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Following on from being beaten in their last game against Galway United in Premier Division competition, St. Patrick's Athletic and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that match, St. Patrick's Athletic managed 66% possession and 22 attempts on goal with 11 on target. The only player to score for St. Patrick's Athletic was Simon Power (33'). Galway United had 15 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Ed McCarthy (2'), David Hurley (11') and Rob Slevin (35') scored for Galway United.

The forward players for St. Patrick's Athletic have suffered from a lack of goals over their previous six clashes, netting the disappointing return of only 4. In those matches, Saints have also seen the overall goal tally of opposing teams equal 10.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their past head to head meetings going back to 05/05/2023 shows that these encounters have not been fruitful for Cork City. They’ve not been able to register any victories whatsoever whereas St. Patrick's Athletic have just been too good for them, winning in 83 per cent of those matches played.

A total of 17 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 5 of them from The Rebel Army and 12 belonging to Saints. That’s an average goals per game of 2.83.

The last league fixture between these clubs was Premier Division match day 16 on 16/05/2025 when the final score was St. Patrick's Athletic 3-2 Cork City.

On that day, St. Patrick's Athletic managed 52% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 6 on target. The goals were scored by Mason Melia (14'), Zachary Elbouzedi (89') and Jamie Lennon (95').

For their opponents, Cork City got 10 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Charlie Lyons (56') and Seán Maguire (78') scored.

The match was refereed by Paul Norton.

🗞️ Team News: Cork City

Conor Drinan (Cruciate ligament injury), Benny Couto (Ankle injury) and Ruairi Keating (Achilles tendon rupture) will not be able to play for Cork City gaffer Gerard Nash.

📰 Team News: St. Patrick's Athletic

In an otherwise healthy group, there’s just the one fitness problem for the St. Patrick's Athletic manager Stephen Kenny to be concerned with. Romal Palmer (Hamstring injury) won’t be in action.

💡 Prediction

We’re envisaging that Cork City will have a tough ask to put one past this St. Patrick's Athletic outfit who we reckon should end up scoring and staying ahead.

That’s why our selection here is for a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 0-1 victory for St. Patrick's Athletic at the end of the 90.

Should be a close one.

💵 ⚽️ What are the top odds for this match?

Checking the betting prices for this game in the win-draw-win market, victory for Cork City is available for 4, going for a drawn result is 3.6 and taking a punt on a win for St. Patrick's Athletic is 1.85. They’re the best of the returns that can be secured as of now.

Peter Guest, 12:02 23/06/2025