📏 Form Guide

Drogheda United

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Drogheda United will be looking for an improved result here following a 3-0 Premier Division loss in their previous game against Shamrock Rovers.

In that game, Drogheda United had 26% possession and 5 attempts at goal with 0 on target. At the other end, Shamrock Rovers got 13 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. Aaron Greene (50'), Lee Grace (53') and Rory Gaffney (93') scored for Shamrock Rovers.

It’s not been often in recent times that Drogheda United haven’t conceded. The facts show that Drogheda United have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, letting in 11 goals during that time. That kind of trend isn’t assured to be carried forward into this game, though.

Looking at their past form shows that Drogheda United:

• are unbeaten in the league by Derry City in their last 2 matches.
• are unbeaten in their last 4 league matches at home.

Derry City

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Derry City will come into the encounter following a 1-2 Premier Division win with the eclipse of Cork City in their most recent game.

In that game, Derry City had 51% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. For Derry City, goals were scored by Liam Boyce (24') and Kevin Holt (81'). On the other side, Cork City had 11 shots on goal with 4 on target. Djenairo Daniels (62') was the scorer for Cork City.

Over the course of their last six outings, Derry City have helped themselves to the sum of 12 goals. Derry City have also not failed to score in every single one of those games. During those fixtures, they’ve seen 5 goals go into their own net.

Going into this contest, Derry City are winless against Drogheda United when they've played them away from home in the last 3 league matches.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their prior head-to-head meetings going back to 16/02/2024 shows us that Drogheda United have won 3 of them and Derry City 2, with the number of drawn games standing at 1.

There were also plenty of goals scored in those games, 22 in total which averages out at 3.67 goals per match.

The last league match featuring the two was Premier Division match day 9 on 11/04/2025 and the score finished Derry City 1-3 Drogheda United.

The referee was Robert Harvey.

ℹ️ Team News: Drogheda United

Paul Doyle (Hamstring injury) and Josh Thomas (Leg injury) won’t be able to feature for Drogheda United boss Kevin Doherty.

We think that The Drogs will probably opt for a 3-4-1-2 system this time, handing starts to Luke Dennison, Elicha Ahui, Conor Keeley, George Cooper, Owen Lambe, Shane Farrell, Ryan Brennan, Conor Kane, Luke Heeney, Douglas James-Taylor and Warren Davis.

🗞️ Team News: Derry City

Derry City boss Tiernan Lynch has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Sadou Diallo (Broken arm) and Cameron Dummigan (Hamstring injury) can’t be considered.

We reckon that The Candystripes will likely play in a 3-4-3 system, going with Brian Maher, Sam Todd, Mark Connolly, Kevin Holt, Ronan Boyce, Adam O'Reilly, Carl Winchester, Hayden Cann, Gavin Whyte, Liam Boyce and Michael Duffy.

🧠 Prediction

We think that Drogheda United will have to play well to score against this Derry City side who we think might be able to get on the scoresheet themselves in a winning performance.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 0-1 victory for Derry City at the end of the match.

Let’s see what happens.

Andre Moura, 18:03 16/05/2025