📏 Form Guide

Longford Town

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Longford Town head into this fixture after a 1-1 First Division draw versus Bray Wanderers.

The only scorer from Longford Town was Karl Chambers (9').

It has not been often in recent times that Longford Town have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Longford Town have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, letting in 11 goals in the process.

Their past results show that Longford Town:

• remain unbeaten by UCD when playing them at home in the last 2 league matches.
• haven't been beaten in the league by UCD in their last 4 matches.

UCD

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UCD will come into the encounter following a 1-2 First Division win to defeat Cobh Ramblers in their most recent game.

The stats don’t lie, and UCD have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 6 goals in all. In defence, UCD seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly. Historical results aside, we’ll just have to find out if that trend might continue on here in this match.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A review of their prior head-to-head meetings going back to 29/06/2018 shows us that Longford Town have won 3 of them and UCD 1, with the tally of draws being 2.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 22 overall which averages out at 3.67 goals per meeting.

📰 Team News: UCD

Owing to a completely healthy group ready to go, the UCD manager Andy Myler doesn’t have any fitness concerns to report coming into this match.

⚡ Prediction

We’re thinking that UCD and Longford Town might both not be able to do quite enough to get on the scoresheet here.

There should be little in it, and a draw looks quite a realistic result. Our tip is therefore for a tight encounter, finishing with a 0-0 draw when all is said and done.

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Andre Moura, 19:08 29/03/2024