📏 Form Guide

Longford Town

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Longford Town will play in this game following a 1-1 First Division drawn result versus UCD.

Mikey Raggett (45') scored for UCD.

Longford Town have found it difficult to unlock defences in more recent games. Their ‘goals for’ figure equals just 4 vs opponents over the course of their last six matches. In those meetings, Longford Town have also seen the tally of goals that have gone against them come to 11. That kind of pattern won’t necessarily be continued into this match, of course.

Finn Harps

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After being defeated in their last game at the hands of Athlone in First Division competition, Finn Harps will be hoping to turn things around here.

Gideon Tetteh (73') was the scorer for Athlone.

The stats don’t lie, and Finn Harps have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 12 goals overall. In defence, Finn Harps seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly.

↔️ Head to head

A look at their past head to head meetings going back to 25/08/2023 shows us that Longford Town have won 1 of these & Finn Harps 3, with the tally of drawn games standing at 2.

A combined sum of 16 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 7 from The Town and 9 belonging to The Harps. That’s an average goals per game of 2.67.

The last league game featuring these sides was First Division match day 8 on 04/04/2025 when it finished Finn Harps 1-1 Longford Town.

💭 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Longford Town might have a difficult job to get anything against this Finn Harps side who should score at least once to put them ahead.

That’s why we have predicted a very competitive encounter with a 0-1 advantage for Finn Harps after 90 minutes.

Let’s see.

Lucas Pereira, 18:03 17/05/2025