📏 Form Guide

Shamrock Rovers

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Shamrock Rovers will be looking for another win after a 1-3 Premier Division victory against Waterford.

In that match, Shamrock Rovers managed 43% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 5 on target. For Shamrock Rovers, goals were scored by Rory Gaffney (25'), Michael Noonan (76') and Graham Burke (90'). Waterford got 9 shots on goal with 1 of them on target. Pádraig Amond (10') was the scorer for Waterford.

Shamrock Rovers haven’t had any problems with scoring, netting in one hundred percent of their last 6 games.

They’ve totted up the amount of 13 during that time while also conceding a total of 7. We shall soon see whether or not that trend will be sustained in this game.

Looking at their past form shows that Shamrock Rovers:

• are unbeaten in the league by St. Patrick's Athletic in their last 2 matches.
• are unbeaten in their last 3 league matches at home.

St. Patrick's Athletic

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St. Patrick's Athletic go into this meeting following a 3-2 Premier Division win with the defeat of Cork City in their previous match.

In that game, St. Patrick's Athletic had 52% possession and 15 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. For St. Patrick's Athletic, the goals were scored by Mason Melia (15'), Zachary Elbouzedi (90') and Jamie Lennon (90'). For their opponents, Cork City had 10 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Charlie Lyons (57') and Seán Maguire (78') scored for Cork City.

Stephen Kenny's St. Patrick's Athletic have seen their goal attempts be successful a total of 7 times in the course of their latest 6 matches. The total of goals that have been scored against them during those same clashes equals 7.

Going into this encounter, St. Patrick's Athletic are without an away win for the past 4 league games.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 05/04/2024 shows us that Shamrock Rovers have won 1 of these & St. Patrick's Athletic 3, with the number of drawn matches standing at 2.

A combined sum of 18 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 7 from The Hoops and 11 for Saints. That’s an average goals per game of 3.

The last league encounter featuring the two was Premier Division match day 10 on 18/04/2025 when it finished St. Patrick's Athletic 2-2 Shamrock Rovers.

On that day, St. Patrick's Athletic managed 53% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 5 on target. The scorers were Mason Melia (32') and Joe Redmond (91').

On the other side, Shamrock Rovers had 12 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Jack Byrne (37') and Lee Grace (88') scored.

The referee was Neil Doyle.

📋 Team News: Shamrock Rovers

Daniel Mandroiu (Hamstring injury) and Aaron McEneff (unknown injury) are not available for Shamrock Rovers manager Stephen Bradley.

We think that The Hoops could go for a 5-3-2 system for the game featuring Edward McGinty, Adam Matthews, Lee Grace, Roberto Lopes, Cory O'Sullivan, Josh Honohan, Jack Byrne, Darragh Nugent, Gary O'Neil, Rory Gaffney and Aaron Greene.

📋 Team News: St. Patrick's Athletic

From a largely available group of players, there is just the one fitness problem for the St. Patrick's Athletic boss Stephen Kenny to contend with. Romal Palmer (Hamstring injury) misses out for this game.

It’s our belief that Saints seem most likely to play in a 4-3-3 formation, choosing Joseph Anang, Axel Sjöberg, Joe Redmond, Sean Hoare, Anto Breslin, Barry Baggley, Jamie Lennon, Kian Leavy, Jake Mulraney, Mason Melia and Aidan Keena.

💭 Prediction

Our assessment is that St. Patrick's Athletic have the capability to put one past this Shamrock Rovers lineup, although that possibly won’t quite prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

Our selection here is for both teams to score in a 2-1 victory for Shamrock Rovers when the full-time whistle blows. Could easily see this go either way.

Victor Martins, 18:02 19/05/2025