National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Shamrock Rovers or Dundalk that keep their silverware dream alive.
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Europa League game only three days ago. That game, against Molde, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Dundalk.
This stadium uses grass, unlike Dundalk's home stadium. The visitors last 37 games on grass have ended in 19 wins, 5 draws and 13 losses.
Shamrock Rovers form and stats
Home games in the Premier Division have been a walk in the park for Shamrock Rovers so far, with 23 points won from 9 matches; 7 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses. On the other hand, in the FAI Cup, Shamrock Rovers has performed like this (both home and away): 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses. In general it's been a long time since Shamrock tasted defeat here at Aviva Stadium, as they have taken at least one point from their last 16 home games in the league. Shamrock has a nice streak going on as they have played 22 consecutive leaguegames without losing (regardless of home/away). They are keen to extend their tally, a streak that began after the Dundalk defeat 440 days ago.
The Shamrock goalkeeper Alan Mannus is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 563 minutes without conceding a goal in the Premier Division.
Shamrock Rovers's last game was hosting Sligo Rovers and winning 2-0. A strong away win before that one, visiting Finn Harps and winning 3-2.
The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Shamrock Rovers handle that role? We have found one game in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are zero wins, one draw and zero defeats.
Shamrock are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (25 goals in 9 games). Shamrock Rovers have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 4 goals. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only -1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
Dundalk form and stats
Dundalk's mission in FAI Cup last season failed in the final.The story so far for the visiting team on their Premier Division travels is 4 wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the FAI Cup stats, they have 4 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses both home and away.
Two away games in a row for Dundalk, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-3 versus Molde in the Europa League. Before that one, a nice away victory 11-0 at Athlone Town.
It's a bit worrying for Dundalk that their goalkeeper Gary Rogers made eight saves in the Molde game last time out, but still couldn''t prevent the loss.
Dundalk are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is zero wins, one draw and one defeat. From a total of two matches.
After this away game Dundalk return home for a Europa League game against Arsenal. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Dundalk has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 15 goals from 9 games. It's worth mentioning that 17 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. 12 goals have been conceded by Dundalk in these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: three - two - five (Shamrock wins - draws - Dundalk wins). As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  P. Hoban 10 goals |   J. Byrne 9 goals |  G. Burke 8 goals |
Shamrock Rovers missing players
Dundalk missing players
| Shamrock Rovers | Dundalk | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 15 | 25 | ||
| 19 | 9 | Won | W | 6 | 9 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 7 | 11 | ||
| 54 | 31 | Scored | S | 30 | 41 | ||
| 14 | 9 | Conceded | C | 23 | 39 | ||
| 84% | 85% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | ||
| 72% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 87% | 80% | ||
| 48% | 54% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 60% | 60% | ||
| 36% | 46% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 40% | ||
| 20% | 23% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 20% | 16% | ||
| 32% | 38% | BTTS | BTTS | 53% | 52% | ||
| 64% | 54% | Clean Sheets | C S | 27% | 28% | ||
| 20% | 23% | Failed to Score | F T | 20% | 28% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 1.2 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 9.9 | 10.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.7 | 8.5 | ||
| 4.6 | 5.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.2 | ||
| 46% | 46% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 57% | 50% | ||
| 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 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 44 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 25 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 37 | 48 |
| 2 | Bohemians | 18 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 23 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 37 |
| 3 | Dundalk | 18 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 25 | 23 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 26 |
| 4 | Sligo Rovers | 18 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 19 | 23 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 12 | -4 | 25 |
| 5 | Waterford United | 18 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 17 | 22 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 13 | -5 | 24 |
| 6 | St Patrick's | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 11 | -3 | 21 |
| 7 | Derry City | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 18 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| 8 | Finn Harps | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 13 | -9 | 20 |
| 9 | Shelbourne | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 22 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 11 | -9 | 19 |
| 10 | Cork City | 18 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 30 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 20 | -20 | 11 |