📊 Form Guide

St. Patrick's Athletic

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St. Patrick's Athletic, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 1-2 Premier Division success against Waterford.

In that game, St. Patrick's Athletic had 63% possession and 18 attempts at goal with 5 on target. The scorer for St. Patrick's Athletic was Brandon Kavanagh (90'). At the other end, Waterford got 10 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Pádraig Amond (14') and Darragh Leahy (88' Own goal) scored for Waterford.

In their prior 6 games, Stephen Kenny's St. Patrick's Athletic have managed to score a total of 12 times, an average number of goals scored per match of 2.

Coming into this meeting, St. Patrick's Athletic haven't been defeated in their previous 11 league matches at home. A very good run at home.

Shelbourne

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Shelbourne will go into the clash after a 1-2 Premier Division win to beat Sligo Rovers in their last match.

In that match, Shelbourne had 43% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. For Shelbourne, the scorers were John Martin (3') and Kerr McInroy (12'). Sligo Rovers had 14 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Reece Hutchinson (45') scored for Sligo Rovers.

The numbers tell their own story, and Shelbourne have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, conceding 5 goals in all. Defensively, Shelbourne can certainly do much better. That being said, we’ll just have to find out whether that pattern will persist in this upcoming game or not.

Leading up to this clash, Shelbourne:

• have not been beaten by St. Patrick's Athletic in away games against them for the last 2 league games.
• have not been beaten in their last 4 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

A look at their prior head-to-head meetings stretching back to 23/06/2023 shows us that St. Patrick's Athletic have won 2 of these & Shelbourne 4, with the number of drawn matches standing at 0.

In all, 16 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 7 of them from Saints and 9 created by The Shels. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.67.

The previous league fixture between these sides was Premier Division match day 30 on 30/09/2024 when it ended Shelbourne 2-3 St. Patrick's Athletic.

On that day, Shelbourne had 59% possession and 17 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. The goals were scored by Rayhaan Tulloch (76') and Matty Smith (80').

St. Patrick's Athletic had 20 shots at goal with 7 on target. Joe Redmond (22'), Brandon Kavanagh (62') and Al-Amin Kazeem (88') scored.

The match was refereed by Damien MacGraith.

🗞️ Team News: St. Patrick's Athletic

Romal Palmer (Hamstring injury), Kian Leavy (Ankle injury) and Aidan Keena (Hamstring injury) won’t be able to feature for St. Patrick's Athletic gaffer Stephen Kenny.

🗞️ Team News: Shelbourne

Shelbourne manager Damien Duff has some current player fitness concerns. Daniel Kelly (unknown injury) and Sam Bone (unknown injury) are not able to play.

⚡ Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Shelbourne will have to perform well to break down this St. Patrick's Athletic outfit who we think might well gain the upper hand.

We therefore fancy a good tussle with a 1-0 victory for St. Patrick's Athletic at the end of this game.

Let’s see how this one goes.

Renata Leite, 18:09 04/04/2025