Galway United vs Shelbourne Live Stream, Predictions (Jun 27)

📏 Form Guide

Galway United

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Galway United will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 2-1 Premier Division loss in their previous game against Sligo Rovers.

In that game, Galway United had 46% possession and 20 attempts on goal with 7 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Galway United was Moses Dyer (47'). At the other end, Sligo Rovers got 14 shots on goal with 6 on target. Jad Hakiki (45') and Francely Lomboto (73') scored for Sligo Rovers.

It’s not been often in recent times where Galway United have shown defensive steel. The reality is that Galway United have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 6 goals on the way. We will have to see whether or not that trend will be sustained in this game.

Pre-game facts show that Galway United:

• haven't been beaten by Shelbourne when playing them at home in the previous 5 league matches.
• haven't been beaten in the league by Shelbourne in their last 3 games.
• are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches at home.

Shelbourne

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In their last fixture, Shelbourne drew 2-2 in the Premier Division match with Waterford.

In that match, Shelbourne had 59% possession and 21 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Shelbourne was Harry Wood (3', 49'). For their opponents, Waterford got 6 shots at goal with 3 on target. Grant Horton (8') and Pádraig Amond (48') scored for Waterford.

Damien Duff's Shelbourne have seen their goal attempts be successful a total of 6 times in the course of their most recent six matches. The aggregate of goals that have been scored against them during those matches comes to 6.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their most recent head-to-head clashes going back to 19/04/2024 shows us that Galway United have won 2 of these games and Shelbourne 1, with the number of drawn games standing at 3.

A total of 12 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 6 of them for Tribesman and 6 created by The Shels. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.

The previous league clash featuring the two was Premier Division match day 11 on 21/04/2025 when the final score was Shelbourne 2-2 Galway United.

On that occasion, Shelbourne had 76% possession and 33 attempts at goal with 9 of them on target. The goals were scored by Ellis Chapman (1') and Mipo Odubeko (67').

Galway United got 16 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Moses Dyer (37', 81') scored.

The match was refereed by Paul Norton.

ℹ️ Team News: Galway United

It seems likely that Tribesman will probably employ a 3-5-2 formation in the match, handing starts to Evan Watts, Cian Byrne, Rob Slevin, Garry Buckley, Jeannot Esua, Ed McCarthy, David Hurley, Vincent Borden, Greg Cunningham, Patrick Hickey and Stephen Walsh.

ℹ️ Team News: Shelbourne

We are inclined to think that The Shels appear most likely to make use of a 3-5-2 lineup, starting Conor Kearns, Kameron Ledwidge, Tyreke Wilson, Patrick Barrett, Sean Gannon, Jonathan Lunney, Mark Coyle, Harry Wood, Evan Caffrey, Ademipo Odubeko and Ali Coote.

⚡ Prediction

We envisage that Shelbourne should have enough to breach the defence of this Galway United team, however that realistically won’t be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We’re expecting a 2-1 win for Galway United by the conclusion of the game. There shouldn’t be much in it, either way.

📚 ⚽️ What are the best odds for this match?

In terms of the bookies’ odds on the full-time result market, a win for Galway United is best priced at 2.88, a bet on the draw is 2.88 and taking a punt on victory for Shelbourne gets 2.75. They’re the top prices offered at the current time.

Andre Moura, 00:01 26/06/2025