Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Dundalk & Finn Harps face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the FAI Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Finn Harps have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 1-2-6 (win-draw-loss) from nine matches.
Dundalk form and stats
On the other hand, in the FAI Cup, Dundalk has performed like this (both home and away): 2 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses. We have seen two home losses in a row now for Dundalk, who are hoping that the phrase “third time lucky” applies to them.
The home team returns to Oriel Park after being equal after 90 minutes with Finn Harps on their last time out; the FAI Cup game ended 3-3. A disappointing finish for Dundalk in their match versus Finn Harps as their 3-1 lead was destroyed and replaced with a 3-3 full time score. A goal frenzy last time out for Dundalk, with a total of 6 goals in the match against Finn Harps. Fun stuff to watch!
Prior to that, an away loss at Sligo Rovers in the Premier Division.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Dundalk have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found one match with the results: Won zero, drawn zero and lost one.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Dundalk, as the Premier Division home game vs Sligo Rovers is only three days away.
The Dundalk fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 13 in 12 matches. Dundalk have conceded 18 from these games.
Finn Harps form and stats
Harps was sent out of FAI Cup in the quarter-finals last season.The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the FAI Cup stats, they have 2 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses both home and away.
Harps played 3-3 against Dundalk in their previous match. The match against Dundalk looked like a defeat for Finn Harps, but they did not accept the outcome and clawed their way back to 3-3. S. Boyd equalized in the 90th minute. An off the wall match with an abundance of goals last time out for Finn Harps, as mentioned above. 6 goals in that fun game, will this fixture be as exciting? Scoring three goals against Dundalk was a blast for S. Boyd, the draw result 3-3 not so much fun.
The game before that, in the Premier Division, was lost at home, a 1-2 defeat against Bohemians.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found five similar matches played by Finn Harps in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Finn Harps, one draw and two defeats.
Finn Harps have another fixture away in just three nights, a Premier Division match against Bohemians. A strenuous timetable for the visitors!
The visiting Harps have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 16 goals from 14 games. As opposed to that, Harps have seen the ball go into their own net 20 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Finn Harps - Dundalk 3-3 was the output when these participants formerly met, earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Dundalk five wins, four draws and Finn Harps one victory. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Foley 8 goals |  P. Hoban 7 goals | T. Owolabi 6 goals |
Dundalk missing players
Finn Harps missing players
| Dundalk | Finn Harps | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 9 | 5 | Won | W | 5 | 8 | ||
| 7 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 6 | ||
| 9 | 4 | Lost | L | 4 | 11 | ||
| 35 | 17 | Scored | S | 16 | 30 | ||
| 36 | 16 | Conceded | C | 17 | 36 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 76% | 82% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 76% | ||
| 52% | 64% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 56% | ||
| 28% | 27% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 24% | ||
| 16% | 18% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 8% | ||
| 68% | 82% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 56% | ||
| 20% | 9% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 20% | ||
| 12% | 9% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 28% | ||
| 6.4 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.2 | 4.9 | ||
| 5.6 | 6.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.7 | 4.7 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.8 | 2.5 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 4 | ||
| 11.1 | 13.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.4 | 7.8 | ||
| 4.6 | 5.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 2.8 | ||
| 30% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 44% | 43% | ||
| 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 | 26 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 43 | 20 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 22 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 10 | 23 | 56 |
| 2 | St Patrick's | 27 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 46 | 32 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 10 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 21 | 22 | 14 | 50 |
| 3 | Sligo Rovers | 27 | 13 | 6 | 8 | 32 | 20 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 45 |
| 4 | Derry City | 27 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 36 | 34 | 14 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 19 | 19 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 15 | 2 | 39 |
| 5 | Bohemians | 25 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 42 | 31 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 30 | 15 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 11 | 38 |
| 6 | Drogheda United | 27 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 40 | 34 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 21 | 19 | 6 | 37 |
| 7 | Finn Harps | 27 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 29 | 37 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 17 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 16 | 20 | -8 | 33 |
| 8 | Waterford United | 27 | 9 | 2 | 16 | 24 | 46 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 23 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 12 | 23 | -22 | 29 |
| 9 | Dundalk | 26 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 29 | 38 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 20 | -9 | 28 |
| 10 | Longford Town | 27 | 2 | 8 | 17 | 19 | 48 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 22 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 26 | -29 | 14 |