National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Drogheda United or Derry City that keep their silverware dream alive.
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Derry City have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 13-12-13 (win-draw-loss) from 38 matches.
Drogheda United form and stats
Last season, Drogheda's FAI Cup journey ended in the 2nd round.4-3-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Premier Division numbers at home for Drogheda United so far this season.
The fans are hoping that Drogheda will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the Premier Division game against St Patrick's.
A 1-1 draw away in the Premier Division before that, with Longford Town the opponent.Drogheda have proved capable of finding the net in their games here with 15 goals in 10 league matches. Drogheda's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 10 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Derry City form and stats
Last season their FAI Cup adventure ended in the quarter-finals.Playing away, Derry City have won 5 games, drawn 1 and suffered 4 defeats in the Premier Division this season. The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Derry City have lost on their last two travels.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Premier Division home defeat versus Shamrock Rovers with 2-4 on the scoreboard. A huge disappointment for Derry in their last match (vs Shamrock Rovers). Leading 2-0 the victory seemed almost certain, but a fascinating collapse turned everything around and in the end all was lost in a 2-4 defeat. As you can tell from the result, the match against Shamrock Rovers was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today?
Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting St Patrick's's place.Derry City are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 10 away goals from 10 games (in the league). 11 goals have been conceded by Derry in these games.
Head 2 Head
Drogheda-Derry City H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Drogheda United one win, Derry City six wins, three draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  C. Lyons 9 goals |  M. Doyle 8 goals |
Drogheda United missing players
Derry City missing players
| Drogheda United | Derry City | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 5 | Won | W | 5 | 7 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 9 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Lost | L | 5 | 9 | ||
| 41 | 17 | Scored | S | 11 | 26 | ||
| 28 | 12 | Conceded | C | 14 | 31 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 84% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 69% | 84% | ||
| 44% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 31% | 32% | ||
| 28% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 8% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 4% | ||
| 56% | 58% | BTTS | BTTS | 46% | 60% | ||
| 24% | 17% | Clean Sheets | C S | 23% | 20% | ||
| 20% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 38% | 24% | ||
| 3.6 | 4.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.4 | 4 | ||
| 4.7 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.8 | 4.3 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.1 | 1.9 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 3 | ||
| 6.6 | 8.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5.6 | 6.4 | ||
| 2.7 | 3.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.4 | 2.7 | ||
| 60% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 34% | 38% | ||
| 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 | 20 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 34 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 8 | 17 | 41 |
| 2 | St Patrick's | 21 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 35 | 20 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 15 | 41 |
| 3 | Sligo Rovers | 20 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 27 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 38 |
| 4 | Bohemians | 20 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 34 | 23 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 26 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 31 |
| 5 | Drogheda United | 21 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 34 | 25 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 15 | 9 | 30 |
| 6 | Dundalk | 20 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 25 | 27 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 15 | -2 | 27 |
| 7 | Derry City | 21 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 23 | 28 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 11 | -5 | 25 |
| 8 | Finn Harps | 21 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 31 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 18 | -14 | 20 |
| 9 | Waterford United | 21 | 6 | 1 | 14 | 15 | 39 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 21 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 18 | -24 | 19 |
| 10 | Longford Town | 21 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 35 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 17 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 18 | -20 | 11 |