📏 Form Guide

St. Patrick's Athletic

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St. Patrick's Athletic head into this fixture following on from a 0-0 Premier Division draw against Drogheda United.

In that game, St. Patrick's Athletic managed 64% possession and 19 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Drogheda United had 8 shots at goal with 2 on target.

Stephen Kenny's St. Patrick's Athletic have scored 7 times over their prior six outings. The tally of goals that they have conceded in that time stands at 10.

Leading up to this clash, St. Patrick's Athletic:

• have left without a victory over Shelbourne in their last 2 league games.
• are unbeaten in their previous 17 home league matches. Incredible, really.
• have not won at home in their last 2 league matches.

Shelbourne

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Since being defeated in their last game at the hands of Shamrock Rovers in Premier Division competition, Shelbourne and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that game, Shelbourne had 50% possession and 8 shots at goal with 0 of them on target. For their opponents, Shamrock Rovers got 16 shots on goal with 7 on target. Dan Cleary (12') and Josh Honohan (32' Own goal, 83') scored for Shamrock Rovers.

The numbers tell their own story, and Shelbourne have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 7 goals in all. Defensively, Shelbourne could really do with shoring things up. Let’s find out whether or not that trend will end up being sustained into this next match.

Looking at their past form shows that Shelbourne:

• haven't been defeated by St. Patrick's Athletic in games played away from home for the previous 3 league matches.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 6 league games.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head-to-head clashes stretching back to 15/03/2024 shows us that St. Patrick's Athletic have won 1 of these & Shelbourne 4, with the tally of drawn results being 1.

A sum of 15 goals were produced between them in these games, with 6 for Saints and 9 for The Shels. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.5.

The previous league game featuring these clubs was Premier Division match day 15 on 09/05/2025 and the score finished Shelbourne 2-1 St. Patrick's Athletic.

That day, Shelbourne managed 51% possession and 9 shots at goal with 3 on target. The scorers were Harry Wood (48') and Kerr McInroy (90').

For their opponents, St. Patrick's Athletic got 16 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Mason Melia (29') scored.

The match was refereed by Kevin O'Sullivan.

🗞️ Team News: St. Patrick's Athletic

Regarding absentees, there’s just the sole fitness concern for the St. Patrick's Athletic manager Stephen Kenny to be concerned about thanks to an otherwise robust set of players. Romal Palmer (Hamstring injury) is out of contention.

We think that Saints should employ a 4-3-3 formation for this one featuring Joseph Anang, Ryan McLaughlin, Joe Redmond, Sean Hoare, Anto Breslin, Kian Leavy, Jamie Lennon, Jason McClelland, Zak Elbouzedi, Mason Melia and Simon Power.

ℹ️ Team News: Shelbourne

From a largely available group, there is just the lone fitness problem for the Shelbourne boss Damien Duff to contend with. Paddy Barrett (unknown injury) won’t be in action.

It’s our belief that The Shels seem most likely to play in a 5-3-2 system, giving starts to Conor Kearns, Evan Caffrey, Sean Gannon, Kameron Ledwidge, Tyreke Wilson, James Norris, Kerr McInroy, Mark Coyle, Ellis Chapman, John Martin and Patrick Barrett.

💡 Prediction

We feel that over the course of the game, Shelbourne will have their work cut out to be putting a goal past this St. Patrick's Athletic side who we reckon should score one, at least.

Our tip is therefore for a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 1-0 win for St. Patrick's Athletic after 90 minutes.

We’ll see what happens.

Victor Martins, 18:02 16/06/2025