📏 Form Guide

Derry City

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Derry City will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following a 2-0 Premier Division triumph against Shelbourne.

In that match, Derry City had 39% possession and 9 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. For Derry City, the goalscorers were Michael Duffy (14') and Liam Boyce (31'). For their opponents, Shelbourne got 6 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

Derry City haven’t been able to stop scoring goals, hitting the target every time they’ve gone out to play in their last 6 matches.

They’ve claimed a sum of 12 during that period while also conceding a total of 8.

Pre-game facts show that Derry City:

• haven't won against St. Patrick's Athletic in their last 2 matches in the league.
• are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches at home.

St. Patrick's Athletic

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St. Patrick's Athletic will go into the encounter following a 2-0 Premier Division win with the eclipse of Galway United in their previous outing.

In that game, St. Patrick's Athletic managed 54% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. For St. Patrick's Athletic, the goals were scored by Kian Leavy (32') and Zachary Elbouzedi (38'). Galway United got 26 shots on goal with 6 of them on target.

A series of accomplished displays from the St. Patrick's Athletic defensive players has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally amounting to 4 from their previous 6 outings overall. During the same period of time, the number of goals that they have scored themselves amounts to 7. Despite that, we’ll just have to find out whether the trend might continue on in this next game or not.

Analysis of their past results shows that St. Patrick's Athletic:

• have left without a victory over Derry City in games played away from home for the previous 9 league games. A very poor set of away results, indeed.
• are without a win away from home in their last 2 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A glance at their past head-to-head meetings dating back to 01/03/2024 shows that Derry City have won 4 of these & St. Patrick's Athletic 2, with the number of drawn results being 0.

14 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 9 of them from The Candystripes and 5 being from Saints. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.33.

ℹ️ Team News: Derry City

Cameron Dummigan (Hamstring injury) and Sadou Diallo (Broken arm) will be missing for Derry City manager Tiernan Lynch.

In our view, The Candystripes should opt for a 5-3-2 system for this game with Brian Maher, Ronan Boyce, Mark Connolly, Kevin Holt, Shane Ferguson, Liam Boyce, Adam O'Reilly, Carl Winchester, Michael Duffy, Gavin Whyte and Hayden Cann.

🗞️ Team News: St. Patrick's Athletic

Thanks to a mainly full-strength squad, there is only the sole fitness issue for the St. Patrick's Athletic boss Stephen Kenny to be concerned with. Romal Palmer (Hamstring injury) misses out for this game.

We’re of the thinking that Saints will likely utilise a 4-3-3 lineup, choosing Joseph Anang, Ryan McLaughlin, Joe Redmond, Sean Hoare, Anto Breslin, Chris Forrester, Jamie Lennon, Kian Leavy, Zak Elbouzedi, Mason Melia and Aidan Keena.

✨ Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that St. Patrick's Athletic could find themselves struggling to score against this Derry City team who we think might well be able to get on the scoresheet themselves in a winning performance.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a good tussle with a 1-0 advantage for Derry City when the referee blows for full-time.

Let’s see.

Renata Leite, 18:06 05/05/2025