Balanced ball game between Athlone Town and Cobh Ramblers expected

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Competition: Republic of Ireland First Division
Competition: Mon 14.March
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Athlone Town Stadium (6500 seats)

Athlone Town look forward to clash heads with Cobh Ramblers in this First Division match. All you should know about the match is here!

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the First Division. That game, against Cork City, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Cobh Ramblers.

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Athlone Town form and stats

The home fans saw their team lose the first First Division game of the season here at Athlone Town Stadium. Last season these fans witnessed 5 wins, 1 draw and 7 losses from Athlone Town's 13 home games.

No payout for Athlone Town in their previous match, an away game at Wexford Youths that ended in defeat 1-2.

Ahead of that match, Athlone lost 2-5 at home to Waterford United.

This is expected to be a close game, with Athlone Town perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Athlone Town as a small favourite), we find six games. Athlone Town has won one of these, drawn one and lost four.

Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the First Division game versus Galway United in only four days. This game is also played here at Athlone Stadium.

Athlone Town has scored 2 goals so far and conceded 5 goals from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.

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Cobh Ramblers form and stats

Cobh Ramblers have played one away game so far, a loss. Last season their away games stats in the First Division were 4 victories, 2 draws and 8 defeats from 14 fixtures.

Cobh Ramblers have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 198 minutes ago. Whitmarsh was the goal scorer.

There might be some fixture complaints from Cobh Ramblers as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, 0-2 against Cork City.

Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against Treaty United.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found four similar matches played by Cobh Ramblers in our archives, and the results are: one win for Cobh Ramblers, one draw and two defeats.

After this away game Ramblers return home for a First Division game against Bray Wanderers. That game is only four sleeps after this.

As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Cobh Ramblers has managed 0 goals and let in 2 from 1 match.

Head 2 Head

Athlone Town-Cobh Ramblers H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Athlone Town three wins, Cobh Ramblers four wins, three draws. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Athlone TownG. McAuley
G. McAuley
2 goals

Athlone Town missing players

Cobh Ramblers missing players

Athlone Town Cobh Ramblers
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
2 1 0 Played P 0 1 3
0 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 1
2 1 0 Lost L 0 1 2
3 2 0 Scored S 0 0 2
7 5 0 Conceded C 0 2 5
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 67%
100% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 67%
100% 100% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 33%
50% 100% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 33%
50% 100% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 33%
100% 100% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 33%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 33%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 100% 67%
 
5 2 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 4 5.3
6.5 8 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 14 6.3
0.5 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 4 2.3
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
9 8 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 4 6.3
4 3 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 2 3.3
38% 67% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 20%
 
11 11 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 8 8
7.5 7 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 2 4.7
Athlone Town Last season Cobh Ramblers
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
27 13   Played P   14 27
9 5   Won W   4 8
6 1   Drew D   2 4
12 7   Lost L   8 15
32 17   Scored S   15 25
43 21   Conceded C   26 46
93% 92%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 96%
70% 85%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   93% 81%
56% 69%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   79% 59%
30% 31%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   21% 22%
15% 15%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   0% 4%
56% 62%   BTTS BTTS   71% 52%
26% 23%   Clean Sheets C S   0% 15%
26% 23%   Failed to Score F T   29% 37%
 
5.3 4.8   Corners for (avg) C F   4.6 4.6
6 5.6   Corners against (avg) C A   6.6 6.4
2 1.5   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.1 2.2
1 1   Red cards R C   0 5
 
10.6 11.7   Shots (avg) S (   6.3 6.8
4.2 4.9   Shots on Target (avg) S O   2.1 2.3
28% 27%   Goal Efficiency G E   50% 40%
 
11.5 11   Shots against (avg) S A   8.1 8.7
4.7 4.3   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   3.3 3.9

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Waterford United 4 3 1 0 10 5 2 2 0 0 3 1 2 1 1 0 7 4 5 10
2 Cork City 4 2 1 1 8 1 2 1 0 1 2 1 2 1 1 0 6 0 7 7
3 Galway United 3 2 1 0 6 3 1 0 1 0 2 2 2 2 0 0 4 1 3 7
4 Wexford Youths 4 2 0 2 7 10 2 1 0 1 3 6 2 1 0 1 4 4 -3 6
5 Treaty United 2 1 1 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 5 1 4 4
6 Longford Town 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
7 Cobh Ramblers 3 0 1 2 2 5 2 0 1 1 2 3 1 0 0 1 0 2 -3 1
8 Athlone Town 2 0 0 2 3 7 1 0 0 1 2 5 1 0 0 1 1 2 -4 0
9 Bray Wanderers 3 0 0 3 1 10 2 0 0 2 1 9 1 0 0 1 0 1 -9 0
Last season 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 27 16 9 2 49 23 14 8 6 0 27 12 13 8 3 2 22 11 26 57
2 Galway United 27 15 6 6 39 25 14 8 4 2 22 12 13 7 2 4 17 13 14 51
3 UCD 27 13 7 7 55 38 14 8 4 2 30 16 13 5 3 5 25 22 17 46
4 Treaty United 27 11 9 7 36 27 13 6 5 2 16 11 14 5 4 5 20 16 9 42
5 Bray Wanderers 27 9 10 8 36 31 13 5 4 4 16 11 14 4 6 4 20 20 5 37
6 Cork City 27 8 9 10 37 28 14 6 3 5 28 17 13 2 6 5 9 11 9 33
7 Athlone Town 27 9 6 12 32 43 13 5 1 7 17 21 14 4 5 5 15 22 -11 33
8 Cobh Ramblers 27 8 4 15 25 46 13 4 2 7 10 20 14 4 2 8 15 26 -21 28
9 Cabinteely 27 8 1 18 26 47 14 3 1 10 9 24 13 5 0 8 17 23 -21 25
10 Wexford Youths 27 6 3 18 29 56 13 4 2 7 19 26 14 2 1 11 10 30 -27 21

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.