St. Patrick's Athletic vs UCD Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

St. Patrick's Athletic

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St. Patrick's Athletic will be hoping to bounce back here after the 1-0 Premier Division defeat in their last game at the hands of Dundalk.

Daniel Kelly (24') was the scorer for Dundalk.

Their more recent scorelines really do illustrate the point that things are going according to plan in the St. Patrick's Athletic defence. St. Patrick's Athletic have been miserly, with the number of goals that have flown into the back of their net during their previous six matches standing at 4. We will find out if that trend can be continued on here.

UCD

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In the game prior to this, UCD drew 1-1 in the Premier Division tie with Sligo Rovers.

The only name on the scoresheet from UCD was Dylan Duffy (69'). Karl O'Sullivan (53') scored for Sligo Rovers.

Looking at their form, and UCD have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, conceding 11 goals in all. At the back, UCD can certainly do much better.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their prior head-to-head meetings going back to 26/04/2019 shows us that St. Patrick's Athletic have won 4 of these and UCD 1, with the number of drawn games standing at 1.

A sum of 12 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 8 of them for Saints and 4 coming from The Students. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.

The previous league match between these sides was Premier Division match day 11 on 18/04/2022 when it ended UCD 1-2 St. Patrick's Athletic.

The referee was Damien McGraith.

📰 Team News: St. Patrick's Athletic

The St. Patrick's Athletic manager Tim Clancy has a full complement, with no fitness worries whatsoever before this match with a completely healthy group to choose from.

We think that Saints should make use of the 4-4-2 formation for this one featuring Joseph Anang, Sam Curtis, Joe Redmond, Anto Breslin, Tom Grivosti, Chris Forrester, Jason McClelland, Adam O'Reilly, Ian Bermingham, Tunde Owolabi and Eoin Doyle.

ℹ️ Team News: UCD

With a completely injury-free group available to choose from, the UCD manager Andy Myler doesn’t have any fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this clash.

We are inclined to think that The Students seem likely to elect for a 3-4-2-1 formation, giving starts to Kian Moore, Eric Yoro, Sam Todd, Michael Gallagher, Dara Keane, Dylan Duffy, Jack Keaney, Evan Osam, Mark Dignam, Liam Kerrigan and Evan Caffrey.

🧠 Prediction

In our view, St. Patrick's Athletic are likely to have the majority of the possession and should be able to turn a few of their chances into goals.

At the same time, UCD might well find it a difficult task to score themselves but we do think that it’s more than likely that they will be converting at least once as well.

We’re predicting a 3-1 winning score for St. Patrick's Athletic come full-time.

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

Lucas Pereira, 23:05 12/06/2022