📊 Form Guide

Shelbourne

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Shelbourne will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 1-2 Premier Division victory vs St. Patrick's Athletic.

In that game, Shelbourne managed 43% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Shelbourne was Will Jarvis (48', 58'). St. Patrick's Athletic got 15 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Jake Mulraney (71') was the scorer for St. Patrick's Athletic.

Their latest results reveal that things are going according to plan in the Shelbourne defence. Shelbourne have been mean at the back, with the total number of goals that have gone past their goalkeeper over the course of their last 6 games standing at 3. Such a trend isn’t assured to follow through here, of course.

A look at their previous results shows us that Shelbourne:

• have not been beaten in the league by Dundalk in their last 3 games.
• have not been beaten in their last 11 league matches at home. Visiting teams have certainly not had an easy time of it here.

Dundalk

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In their previous game, Dundalk drew 0-0 in the Premier Division match with Waterford.

In that match, Dundalk had 51% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 6 on target. On the other side, Waterford had 7 shots at goal with 2 on target.

The numbers tell their own story, and Dundalk have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 10 goals overall. At the back, Dundalk have been far from perfect.

Taking a look at their past results, Dundalk:

• have left without a victory over Shelbourne in games played away from home for the previous 4 matches in the league. Not the best of away records.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 2 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 24/06/2022, both clubs have shared the honours with Shelbourne winning 1 of those games, Dundalk 1 and 4 being drawn after 90 minutes of play.

In all, 8 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 4 for The Shels and 4 belonging to The Lilywhites. That is an average goals per game value of 1.33.

The previous league fixture featuring the two was Premier Division match day 33 on 06/10/2023 which ended up with the score at Shelbourne 1-0 Dundalk.

That time, Shelbourne had 42% possession and 11 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. The scorer was Will Jarvis (4').

For their opponents, Dundalk got 11 attempts at goal with 0 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Eoghan O'Shea.

📰 Team News: Shelbourne

It doesn’t get much better regarding selection, with just the sole fitness concern for the Shelbourne manager Damien Duff to be concerned about from a near full-strength squad. Dáithí Folan (Leg injury) is out of contention.

In all likelihood, The Shels will probably line up in a 4-4-2 system for this game with Conor Kearns, Sean Gannon, Patrick Barrett, Gavin Molloy, Tyreke Wilson, Liam Burt, Mark Coyle, Jonathan Lunney, Will Jarvis, Matthew Smith and Sean Boyd.

ℹ️ Team News: Dundalk

With a fully healthy group available to select from, the Dundalk boss Stephen O'Donnell has no fitness concerns to report coming into this match.

We reckon that The Lilywhites seem most likely to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 system by sending out Ross Munro, Archie Davies, Zak Johnson, Louie Annesley, Hayden Muller, Zak Bradshaw, Robbie Benson, Ciaran McGuckin, Scott High, Sam Durrant and Cameron Elliott.

⚡ Prediction

In our opinion, Shelbourne should dominate possession and create several successful chances.

At the other end, Dundalk will not find it easy to score although we do reckon that they could well end up managing to get on the scoresheet here.

We’re therefore anticipating a pretty comfortable 3-1 winning margin for Shelbourne at the end of the 90 minutes.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 19:09 29/03/2024