Drogheda United vs Shelbourne Live Stream, Predictions (Jun 19)

📏 Form Guide

Drogheda United

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Drogheda United will be looking to improve on their last outing here after a 2-0 Premier Division defeat last time out to St. Patrick's Athletic.

In that game, Drogheda United had 36% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 3 on target. On the other side, St Patrick's Athletic had 22 shots on goal with 5 on target. Kian Leavy (34') and Zachary Elbouzedi (61') scored for St. Patrick's Athletic.

It has been seldom in recent times that Drogheda United have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The reality is that Drogheda United have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, giving up 10 goals along the way. That trend might not be sustained into this next game, of course.

Their past results show that Drogheda United:

• are unbeaten in their last 4 league matches at home.
• are without a home win in the past 2 league games.

Shelbourne

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Shelbourne come into this meeting after a 2-1 Premier Division win to beat Shamrock Rovers in their previous match.

In that game, Shelbourne had 25% possession and 6 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. For Shelbourne, the goalscorers were Evan Caffrey (31') and Mipo Odubeko (65'). For their opponents, Shamrock Rovers got 15 shots on goal with 4 on target. Adam Brennan (55') was the scorer for Shamrock Rovers.

A sequence of reliable displays from the Shelbourne defence has seen their ‘goals against’ tally amounting to 3 from their last 6 clashes in total. In that time, their forwards have scored 6.

Ahead of this clash, Shelbourne are unbeaten in their last 4 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 07/03/2025 shows that Drogheda United have won 3 of these & Shelbourne 1, with the tally of drawn games being 2.

A combined sum of 18 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 10 from The Drogs and 8 belonging to The Shels. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.

The previous league encounter featuring the two was Premier Division match day 13 on 24/04/2026 and the score finished Shelbourne 3-4 Drogheda United.

In that match, Shelbourne had 57% possession and 18 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. Goals were scored by Seán Boyd (19'), Paddy Barrett (41') and Harry Wood (80').

At the other end, Drogheda United had 10 shots on goal with 5 on target. Edwin Agbaje (51'), Warren Davis (62', 66') and Conor Keeley (85') scored.

The match was refereed by Marc Lynch.

📋 Team News: Drogheda United

In our view, The Drogs should line up in a 4-2-3-1 formation for the game, handing starts to Fynn Talley, Edwin Agbaje, Conor Keeley, Leo Burney, Kieran Cruise, Ethan O'Brien, Ryan Brennan, Shane Farrell, Brandon Kavanagh, Jago Godden and Mark Doyle.

📰 Team News: Shelbourne

We believe The Shels might begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 formation, giving starts to Wessel Speel, Milan Mbeng, Kameron Ledwidge, Sam Bone, Patrick Barrett, Jonathan Lunney, Ellis Chapman, Harry Wood, Evan Caffrey, Daniel Kelly and Ademipo Odubeko.

🧠 Prediction

We think that Drogheda United will have to perform well to find the net against this Shelbourne side who we think will likely gain the upper hand.

We’ve gone for a highly competitive game with a 0-1 winning score for Shelbourne after 90 minutes.

A close call.

Renata Leite, 03:00 15/06/2026