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Predictions and Tips
Shamrock Rovers will be the visitors at Richmond Park on Friday for the Premier Division game with home team St. Patrick's Athletic.
View all St. Patrick's Athletic v Shamrock Rovers tips, stats and our pre-match poll below (plus the best game odds).
📏 Form Guide

St. Patrick's Athletic
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St. Patrick's Athletic will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following a 0-2 Premier Division victory against Cork City.
For St. Patrick's Athletic, goals were scored by Chris Forrester (43') and Brandon Kavanagh (45').
A recurring aspect of recent St. Patrick's Athletic games is the number of results with a nil in them.
From their prior sextet of matches before this one, in 5 of them a bet on both teams scoring would have been a loser. That pattern might not be sustained into this next game, of course.
Coming into this clash, St. Patrick's Athletic are unbeaten in their last 12 league matches at home. It's been impressive.
Shamrock Rovers
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Shamrock Rovers will go into the encounter following on from a 4-1 Premier Division win as they beat Cork City in their previous game.
For Shamrock Rovers, goals were scored by Aaron Greene (35'), Josh Honohan (45'), Roberto Lopes (48') and Jack Byrne (87'). Darragh Crowley (91') scored for Cork City.
The trend of at least one team not scoring a goal in games involving Shamrock Rovers has been noticeable in recent matches. Examining their last 6 games reveals that it’s happened 5 times. During these clashes, opposing sides have hit a goal aggregate of 1 and Shamrock Rovers have scored 9.
Their previous form shows that Shamrock Rovers:
- haven't won against St. Patrick's Athletic in games played away from home for the previous 2 league matches.
- are undefeated in their last 2 league matches away from home.
↔️ Head to head
Looking over their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 09/02/2024 tells us that St. Patrick's Athletic have won 3 of these and Shamrock Rovers 2, with the tally of drawn games being 1.
A combined sum of 18 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 10 of them from Saints and 8 belonging to The Hoops. That is an average goals per game value of 3.
The previous league clash between these sides was Premier Division match day 5 on 07/03/2025 which ended up with the score at Shamrock Rovers 1-0 St. Patrick's Athletic.
On that day, Shamrock Rovers managed 42% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Danny Grant (64').
St. Patrick's Athletic got 10 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.
The referee was Robert Hennessy.
📋 Team News: St. Patrick's Athletic
Romal Palmer (Hamstring injury) and Aidan Keena (Hamstring injury) will be missing for St. Patrick's Athletic manager Stephen Kenny.
✨ Prediction
We’re envisaging that Shamrock Rovers might need a bit of good fortune to breach the defence of this St. Patrick's Athletic team who we think should emerge victorious.
That’s why we have predicted a very competitive game with a 1-0 victory for St. Patrick's Athletic at full-time.
We’ll see what happens.
Andre Moura, 18:27 18/04/2025
📊 Poll: Who Will Win?

⚽️ Team Focus:
St. Patrick's Athletic
Formed: 1929
Stadium: Richmond Park (5,340)
Captain: Joe Redmond
Chairman: Garrett Kelleher
Manager: Stephen Kenny
Competitions: Premier Division position 2, Conference League Qualifiers (Play Off Round)
🔑 Star Player: Aidan Keena
Typically used in the Striker position, Aidan Keena was born in Mullingar, Rep. Ireland. After making a first senior appearance for St. Patrick's Athletic in the 2017 season, the goalscoring Forward has contributed 5 league goals in this Premier Division 2025 season to date coming from a total of 6 appearances.
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9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 18 | WLDWW |
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9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 17 | LWWDW |
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9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 17 | WDWWW |
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9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 16 | DWWLW |
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9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 16 | LDWDW |
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9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | -4 | 11 | DWDWL |
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9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | -3 | 9 | WLLWL |
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9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | -7 | 9 | LLLLL |
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9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | -6 | 7 | DDLLL |
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9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | -9 | 4 | DLLLL |
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Goals scored | 1.8 |
Goals conceded | 0.6 |
Time first goal scored | 23 |
Time first goal conceded | 40 |
Yellow cards | 2.2 |
Red cards | 0.2 |
Subs used | 3.8 |
Biggest victory | 3-0 |
Biggest defeat | null |
Goals scored | 1 |
Goals conceded | 1 |
Time first goal scored | 43 |
Time first goal conceded | 25 |
Yellow cards | 2.6 |
Red cards | 0 |
Subs used | 4.4 |
Biggest victory | 2-1 |
Biggest defeat | 2-1 |
Aidan Keena | 5 |
Chris Forrester | 4 |
Zachary Elbouzedi | 3 |
Brandon Kavanagh | 2 |
Mason Melia | 2 |
Johnny Kenny | 7 |
Graham Burke | 5 |
Aaron Greene | 5 |
Josh Honohan | 3 |
Dylan Watts | 3 |
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