Derry City vs Shelbourne Live Stream, Predictions (May 02)

📏 Form Guide

Derry City

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Derry City will be looking to improve on their last outing here after the 2-1 Premier Division losing effort in their last game against Waterford.

In that match, Derry City managed 59% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 5 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Derry City was Liam Boyce (94'). For their opponents, Waterford had 10 shots on goal with 5 on target. Darragh Leahy (40') and Pádraig Amond (65') scored for Waterford.

At least three goals per match have been seen in 5 of the last 6 meetings where Derry City have participated. Their opponents scored 8 times in these games while Derry City amassed a tally of 10. That kind of pattern isn’t assured to be sustained into this game, of course.

Going into this one, Derry City have not emerged victorious against Shelbourne in their last 8 matches in the league.

Shelbourne

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In the game prior to this, Shelbourne drew 2-2 in the Premier Division match with Shamrock Rovers.

In that game, Shelbourne managed 47% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. For Shelbourne, the scorers were Ali Coote (50') and Mipo Odubeko (64'). Shamrock Rovers got 17 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Matt Healy (28') and Dan Cleary (67') scored for Shamrock Rovers.

During their 6 most recent matches, Damien Duff's Shelbourne have managed to stick the ball in the net a total of 9 times thus earning them the goals per game average of 1.5.

Looking at their past form shows that Shelbourne:

• have not been beaten by Derry City in games played away from home for the previous 6 matches in the league. A very good record, indeed.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 7 away league matches.
• are without an away win for the past 3 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An examination of their prior head to head clashes dating back to 01/04/2024 shows us that Derry City have won 1 of these & Shelbourne 2, with the number of draws being 3.

A sum of 9 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 4 for The Candystripes and 5 netted by The Shels. That’s an average goals per game of 1.5.

🗞️ Team News: Derry City

Cameron Dummigan (Hamstring injury) and Sadou Diallo (Broken arm) are not available for Derry City manager Tiernan Lynch.

It looks as if The Candystripes look set to kick off with a 5-3-2 system for this game, utilising Brian Maher, Ronan Boyce, Mark Connolly, Kevin Holt, Sam Todd, Robbie Benson, Dominic Thomas, Carl Winchester, Michael Duffy, Gavin Whyte and Danny Mullen.

ℹ️ Team News: Shelbourne

We’re of the thinking that The Shels seem likely to begin the game with a 5-3-2 lineup, choosing Conor Kearns, Evan Caffrey, Tyreke Wilson, Sam Bone, Kameron Ledwidge, James Norris, Jonathan Lunney, Kerr McInroy, Ellis Chapman, Harry Wood and Ademipo Odubeko.

🔮 Prediction

In this match, Shelbourne will likely create enough chances to put one past this Derry City lineup, but it is unlikely to be enough to prevent defeat.

We can see a very close game with a 2-1 winning score for Derry City at the end of the match. Definitely a tough call.

Victor Martins, 12:07 28/04/2025