Home advantage could prove decisive in Athlone Town - Cabinteely battle

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Competition: Republic of Ireland First Division
Competition: Fri 01.October
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Athlone Town Stadium (6500 seats)

Athlone Town have won 28 points running out as the team playing at home. Cabinteely have claimed 22 points from their away games. Could we look at anything else than a home win?

Insights:
  • Athlone Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Cabinteely have the fewest matches over the total-line (8) in First Division

Both teams have had sufficient rest since their previous exertion in an official match. Let's aim for an animated match!

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Athlone Town form and stats

Athlone Town have collected 13 points from their First Division home games so far after 4-1-6.

Athlone's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-2 versus Wexford Youths (placed 10th).

In the game before, an away victory match versus Bray Wanderers with a 1-0 scoreline.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Athlone handle that role? We have found three games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are two wins, zero draws and one defeat.

The Athlone fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 14 in 11 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 18 goals have been conceded.

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Cabinteely form and stats

4 wins, 0 draws and 7 losses. That’s the product of Cabinteely playing as the away team in the First Division this season. It's a growing despair in Cabinteely as they have recorded three consecutive losses.

Cabinteely might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Shelbourne proved too strong as Cabinteely slumped to a 0-2 defeat in front of their own fans.

A 2-5 defeat away at UCD before that.

We have checked recent matches where Cabinteely have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those six games were two victories, one draw and three defeats.

The visiting Cabinteely have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 14 goals from 11 games. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. As for defending, Cabinteely rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 20 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Athlone Town and Cabinteely have duelled already this season: Cabinteely - Athlone Town 0-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's one Athlone Town victory, two draws and seven Cabinteely wins. Over/under statistics; eight of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Athlone TownS. Barnes
S. Barnes
5 goals
AthloneK. Byrne
K. Byrne
5 goals
Athlone TownJ. Doona
J. Doona
3 goals

Athlone Town missing players

Cabinteely missing players

Athlone Town Cabinteely
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
23 11 4 Played P 2 11 23
8 4 2 Won W 1 4 7
4 1 0 Drew D 0 0 1
11 6 2 Lost L 1 7 15
27 14 5 Scored S 4 14 22
38 18 5 Conceded C 4 20 40
91% 91% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
65% 82% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 73% 70%
57% 64% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 64% 57%
35% 36% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 27% 22%
17% 18% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 27% 13%
48% 55% 25% BTTS BTTS 50% 55% 43%
30% 27% 25% Clean Sheets C S 0% 9% 13%
30% 27% 50% Failed to Score F T 50% 36% 43%
 
5.4 4.7 4.5 Corners for (avg) C F 4 5.4 5.5
6.1 5.6 3.8 Corners against (avg) C A 8 5.8 5.8
2.2 1.7 1.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.2 2.4
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
10.2 11.2 11.2 Shots (avg) S ( 9 7.3 7.3
4.2 5 6.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.5 3.6 3
28% 25% 19% Goal Efficiency G E 31% 35% 33%
Key stats in First Division this season:
  • Athlone Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Cabinteely have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Cabinteely have the fewest matches over the total-line (8) in First Division
  • Cabinteely haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Shelbourne 23 15 7 1 46 19 11 7 4 0 24 10 12 8 3 1 22 9 27 52
2 Galway United 23 12 6 5 35 21 12 6 4 2 19 11 11 6 2 3 16 10 14 42
3 UCD 23 11 6 6 50 34 12 6 4 2 27 15 11 5 2 4 23 19 16 39
4 Treaty United 23 10 8 5 32 23 12 6 4 2 15 10 11 4 4 3 17 13 9 38
5 Bray Wanderers 22 8 9 5 31 23 11 5 3 3 15 9 11 3 6 2 16 14 8 33
6 Athlone Town 23 8 4 11 27 38 11 4 1 6 14 18 12 4 3 5 13 20 -11 28
7 Cork City 23 6 8 9 30 27 12 4 3 5 21 17 11 2 5 4 9 10 3 26
8 Cabinteely 23 7 1 15 22 40 12 3 1 8 8 20 11 4 0 7 14 20 -18 22
9 Cobh Ramblers 22 5 4 13 18 41 10 3 2 5 7 17 12 2 2 8 11 24 -23 19
10 Wexford Youths 23 4 3 16 22 47 11 2 2 7 13 23 12 2 1 9 9 24 -25 15

Read more about First Division

The League of Ireland First Divsion, also known as the SSE Aitricity League First Division, is the second level division of football in the Republic of Ireland. It runs a summer league from February to October with ten teams. Each plays each other three times for a total of 27 fixtures to set the final league table.