This promises to be an action-packed encounter for Shamrock Rovers at Tallaght Stadium when the Europa Conference League tournament arrives in town and Gent with it. Read all about the Group Stage match here!
Gent have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 900 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Pro League game only four days ago.
Shamrock Rovers form and stats
Shamrock Rovers was eliminated in the play-offs last season in the Europa Conference League. Flora was too strong.15-2-0 is the performance here at Tallaght Stadium so far in the Premier Division, giving Shamrock Rovers a total of 47 from their 17 games here. Outstanding results! On the other hand, in the Europa Conference League, Shamrock Rovers has performed like this (both home and away): 0 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses.
Shamrock Rovers's last game was hosting St Patrick's and winning 4-1.
1-1 away at Drogheda United before that.Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Derry City are coming to town in three days.
Goals decide football matches and Shamrock are scoring many of them at home; 38 on target from 17 league matches. Shamrock Rovers are not conceding a lot of goals here at Tallaght Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 10 from 17 matches.
Gent form and stats
They also participated in Europa Conference League last season. This ended in the 8th finals, when PAOK drew the shortest straw.Playing away, Gent have won 3 games, drawn 1 and suffered 3 defeats in the Pro League this season. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Europa Conference League stats, they have 1 win, 1 draw and 2 losses both home and away.
Gent are travelling after their nice 2-1 home win in the fixture against RFC Seraing. Depoitre came off the bench to score the winning goal in the match against RFC Seraing last time out, making the manager Vanhaezebrouck feel like a tactical genius. Hjulsager got a match rating of 7.43 in that game, top player of the team. Hjulsager hit three key passes.
Preceding that game, the 0-2 loss visiting Union Saint-Gilloise's place.Gent have another match away in just three days, a Pro League game versus OH Leuven. A hard timetable for the visitors!
Gent are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 11 times in 7 away games so far. Gent have conceded 8 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
The latest logged match involving both these sides is the Gent - Shamrock Rovers 3-0 played not long ago this season. One of the profiles has been Odjidja-Ofoe with 2 goals scored against Shamrock in these 1 games.
Top Goalscorers
  G. Burke 11 goals |  R. Gaffney 9 goals |  A. Lyons 7 goals |
Shamrock Rovers missing players
Gent missing players
| Shamrock Rovers | Gent | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 8 | Won | W | 3 | 9 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 7 | 1 | Lost | L | 8 | 12 | ||
| 36 | 23 | Scored | S | 14 | 35 | ||
| 30 | 9 | Conceded | C | 18 | 33 | ||
| 84% | 91% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 72% | 73% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 62% | 76% | ||
| 60% | 55% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 46% | 56% | ||
| 32% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 31% | 24% | ||
| 12% | 27% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 8% | ||
| 44% | 55% | BTTS | BTTS | 38% | 48% | ||
| 32% | 36% | Clean Sheets | C S | 23% | 24% | ||
| 40% | 18% | Failed to Score | F T | 46% | 32% | ||
| 4.9 | 6.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.5 | 6.3 | ||
| 4.8 | 4.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.6 | 3.7 | ||
| 2.5 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 1.5 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 10.5 | 13.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.9 | 13.5 | ||
| 4.2 | 5.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.6 | 4.8 | ||
| 35% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 29% | ||
| 10.6 | 8.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.4 | 9.3 | ||
| 4.5 | 3.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.1 | 3.3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Djurgården | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 2 | Molde | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 3 | Gent | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 | Shamrock Rovers | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | -8 | 1 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Shamrock Rovers | 34 | 22 | 7 | 5 | 58 | 22 | 17 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 38 | 10 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 12 | 36 | 73 |
| 2 | Derry City | 34 | 18 | 12 | 4 | 53 | 25 | 17 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 28 | 12 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 25 | 13 | 28 | 66 |
| 3 | Dundalk | 34 | 16 | 12 | 6 | 50 | 29 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 33 | 12 | 17 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 21 | 60 |
| 4 | St Patrick's | 34 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 53 | 36 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 24 | 16 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 29 | 20 | 17 | 58 |
| 5 | Sligo Rovers | 34 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 45 | 41 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 23 | 20 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 22 | 21 | 4 | 46 |
| 6 | Bohemians | 34 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 41 | 43 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 22 | 22 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 19 | 21 | -2 | 43 |
| 7 | Shelbourne | 34 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 34 | 45 | 17 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 17 | 25 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 20 | -11 | 38 |
| 8 | Drogheda United | 34 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 32 | 52 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 18 | 21 | 17 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 31 | -20 | 35 |
| 9 | UCD | 34 | 5 | 8 | 21 | 25 | 64 | 17 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 27 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 37 | -39 | 23 |
| 10 | Finn Harps | 34 | 4 | 8 | 22 | 32 | 66 | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 25 | 17 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 41 | -34 | 20 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Genk | 14 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 36 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 7 | 23 | 37 |
| 2 | Antwerp | 14 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 28 | 14 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 33 |
| 3 | Club Brugge | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 28 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 29 |
| 4 | Union Saint-Gilloise | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 29 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 11 | 29 |
| 5 | Standard Liege | 14 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 22 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 25 |
| 6 | Gent | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 25 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 23 |
| 7 | Westerlo | 14 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 25 | 26 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 20 | -1 | 22 |
| 8 | OH Leuven | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 23 | 23 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 0 | 21 |
| 9 | Cercle Brugge | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 20 | 22 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 15 | -2 | 18 |
| 10 | Sint-Truiden | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -3 | 17 |
| 11 | Mechelen | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 21 | 25 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | -4 | 17 |
| 12 | Anderlecht | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 22 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 16 |
| 13 | Sporting Charleroi | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 20 | 25 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 11 | -5 | 16 |
| 14 | KV Oostende | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 15 | 26 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 12 | -11 | 14 |
| 15 | AS Eupen | 14 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 15 | 29 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 15 | -14 | 12 |
| 16 | RFC Seraing | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 14 | 24 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 14 | -10 | 11 |
| 17 | Kortrijk | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -13 | 11 |
| 18 | Zulte-Waregem | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 30 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -14 | 11 |
