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Predictions and Tips
Waterford will be the visitors at Eamonn Deacy Park on Friday for the Premier Division clash with hosts Galway United.
All of our predictions, stats and the user poll for Galway United v Waterford are shown below including the latest game odds.
📏 Form Guide

Galway United
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Galway United, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following the 1-0 Premier Division success against Waterford.
In that game, Galway United had 56% possession and 18 attempts at goal with 4 on target. The scorer for Galway United was Vincent Borden (80'). For their opponents, Waterford got 10 attempts on goal with 2 on target.
It has been seldom in recent games where Galway United have shown defensive steel. It will be a concern for them that Galway United have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 7 goals on the way. Let’s find out if that trend will be sustained into this next match.
Waterford
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In as many as 5 of the previous 6 clashes involving Waterford, a minimum of three goals have been hit. The overall average goals scored per match in that time is 3, with the average number of goals for Waterford working out to 1.33.
🤜🤛 Head to head
Delving into their past head to head meetings stretching back to 10/10/2023 reveals that these fixtures have not been happy ones for Waterford. They’ve not managed to come away with any victories at all whereas Galway United have remained in the ascendancy, running out winners in 83% of those games where they have faced each other.
A sum of 12 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 9 from Tribesman and 3 being from The Blues. That is an average goals per game value of 2.
The previous league game between these clubs was Premier Division match day 6 on 14/03/2025 when it ended Galway United 1-0 Waterford.
In that match, Galway United managed 56% possession and 18 attempts on goal with 4 on target. The scorer was Vincent Borden (80').
Waterford got 10 attempts on goal with 2 on target.
✨ Prediction
When taking all factors into account, Galway United will most probably fashion enough chances to find the net more than once while possibly not conceding when they line up against Waterford, who could well struggle finding the net themselves.
We reckon that it will be a comfortable 2-0 winning margin for Galway United at the end of the match.
Victor Martins, 05:10 15/03/2025
📊 Poll: Who Will Win?

⚽️ Team Focus:
Galway United
Formed: 1937
Stadium: Eamonn Deacy Park (5,000)
Captain: Greg Cunningham
Chairman: Jonathan Corbett
Manager: John Caulfield
Competitions: Premier Division position 4
⭐ Star Man: Patrick Hickey
Normally deployed in the Centre Midfield position, Patrick Hickey was born in Chicago, USA. Having played his first senior match for Athlone in the 2022 season, the goalscoring Midfielder has hit 3 league goals in the Premier Division 2025 season so far in 5 appearances.
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