Sligo Rovers vs St. Patrick's Athletic Live Stream, Predictions (May 30)

📏 Form Guide

Sligo Rovers

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Sligo Rovers will be hoping to return to winning ways here after the 3-2 Premier Division defeat last time out to Shelbourne.

In that game, Sligo Rovers managed 47% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. For Sligo Rovers, the scorers were Gareth McElroy (3') and Owen Elding (59'). Shelbourne got 29 attempts at goal with 6 on target. John Martin (34', 40', 57') was the scorer for Shelbourne.

It’s been seldom in recent games where Sligo Rovers have shown defensive steel. In fact, Sligo Rovers have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 9 goals on the way.

Analysis of their past results shows that Sligo Rovers:

• have not won against St. Patrick's Athletic in their last 3 matches in the league.
• are without a home win in the past 6 league matches. That's never good.

St. Patrick's Athletic

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In their last fixture, St. Patrick's Athletic drew 2-2 in the Premier Division tie with Waterford.

In that game, St. Patrick's Athletic managed 45% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 2 on target. The scorer for St. Patrick's Athletic was Mason Melia (28', 33'). On the other side, Waterford got 18 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Tom Lonergan (2') and Conan Noonan (80') scored for Waterford.

The numbers tell their own story, and St. Patrick's Athletic have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 11 goals in total. In defence, St. Patrick's Athletic can certainly do much better. We will have to see if that trend will be continued on in this game.

Going into this encounter, St. Patrick's Athletic have not won away from home in their last 5 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at their most recent head-to-head meetings dating back to 23/10/2023 shows that Sligo Rovers have won 1 of them and St. Patrick's Athletic 5, with the tally of drawn matches being 0.

19 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 6 of them from The Bit o' Red and 13 belonging to Saints. That is an average goals per game value of 3.17.

ℹ️ Team News: Sligo Rovers

Oskar van Hattum (unknown injury) and Ollie Denham (unknown injury) aren’t available for Sligo Rovers boss John Russell.

We are thinking that The Bit o' Red could opt for a 4-2-3-1 system for this game, utilising Sam Sargeant, Conor Reynolds, John Mahon, Gareth McElroy, Reece Hutchinson, Matty Wolfe, Jake Doyle-Hayes, Jad Hakiki, Owen Elding, William Fitzgerald and Cian Kavanagh.

🗞️ Team News: St. Patrick's Athletic

Due to a mostly available group, there is only a single fitness problem for the St. Patrick's Athletic boss Stephen Kenny to be concerned with. Romal Palmer (Hamstring injury) won’t be playing here.

From our viewpoint, Saints appear most likely to begin the game with a 4-3-3 system by sending out Joseph Anang, Axel Sjöberg, Joe Redmond, Sean Hoare, Anto Breslin, Barry Baggley, Jamie Lennon, Kian Leavy, Zak Elbouzedi, Mason Melia and Jake Mulraney.

💭 Prediction

Our thinking is that Sligo Rovers will likely be able to get a goal against this St. Patrick's Athletic side, although just one goal may not quite prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

Our selection here is for a tight encounter finishing with a 1-2 winning score for St. Patrick's Athletic when all is said and done. Let’s just see how this one goes.

💵 ⚽️ What are the best odds for the game?

In terms of the bookies’ odds in the 90 minute result market, staking on Sligo Rovers can be had for 4.2, a bet on a draw is 3.7 and putting your money on victory for St. Patrick's Athletic can get you 1.8. They’re the top prices available at this very moment.

Renata Leite, 23:14 27/05/2025