Athlone Town are welcoming Shamrock Rovers II for another important game after their 1-2 result against 5th-placed UCD.
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.
Athlone Town form and stats
The story so far in the First Division for Athlone Town, who have the most conceded goals (21) in First Division, at their home stadium (Athlone Town Stadium) is 0 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats. Athlone have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.
In their previous game, the manager A. Carberry led his Athlone to a defeat in the First Division match away at UCD. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Athlone Town Stadium. Before that, Athlone drew at home versus Drogheda United.
Athlone can score goals in their home matches. After 4 league matches they have found the net 8 times. Defensively there's plenty of potential for improvement as Athlone Town have allowed the opposition to score 12 goals here at Athlone Stadium. Athlone have allowed more than three conceded goals on average in their home matches so far.
Shamrock Rovers II form and stats
Shamrock Rovers II have been very modest guests so far, leaving with zero points in all their 4 away matches played so far in the First Division. It's all red in the travel logs of Shamrock Rovers II, having lost six matches in a row as the visiting team.
Shamrock Rovers II lost away at Bray Wanderers (0-1) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. A home win before that, celebrating 2-0 vs Wexford Youths.
Shamrock Rovers II are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed 1 goal from 4 away games. Shamrock have conceded 7 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  R. Manning 6 goals | L. Duffy 3 goals |  D. Meenan 2 goals |
Athlone Town missing players
Shamrock Rovers II missing players
| Athlone Town | Shamrock Rovers II | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 13 | 8 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 21 | 12 | 3 | Conceded | C | 0 | 7 | 10 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 50% | 71% |
| 88% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 25% | 29% |
| 75% | 100% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 29% |
| 38% | 50% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 88% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 25% | 43% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 12% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 75% | 43% |
| 4.4 | 5.7 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4.8 | 3 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 2.8 | 3.5 |
| 1.4 | 1.7 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.5 | 1.2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | 35 | 16 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 10 | 15 |
| 14 | 13 | 7 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 64% | 38% | 14% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 33% | 67% |
- All of Athlone Town's home-matches have had more than 3,5 goals.
- Athlone Town has the fewest clean sheets (0)
- Athlone Town has the fewest matches under the total-line (1)
- Athlone Town has the most conceded goals (12) at home
- Athlone Town has the most conceded goals (21)
- Athlone Town has the most conceded goals in the first half (10)
- Athlone Town has the most conceded goals in the second half (11)
- Athlone Town has the most dropped points from leading position (9)
- Athlone Town has the most matches over the total-line (7)
- Athlone Town has the the worst goal difference (-8)
- Athlone Town have created more than twice as many corners as Shamrock Rovers II.
- Athlone Town have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Athlone Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Athlone Town have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Athlone Town have scored more than double the goals of Shamrock Rovers II.
- Athlone Town have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Athlone Town have yet to win a game.
- Athlone Town haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Shamrock Rovers II has the fewest points (0) away
- Shamrock Rovers II has the fewest scored goals in the second half (2)
- Shamrock Rovers II have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- Shamrock Rovers II have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Shamrock Rovers II have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Shamrock Rovers II have lost all their away matches so far.
- Shamrock Rovers II 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 | Cabinteely | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 11 | 22 |
| 2 | Bray Wanderers | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 16 |
| 3 | Longford Town | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | Drogheda United | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 15 |
| 5 | UCD | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 | -4 | 11 |
| 6 | Cobh Ramblers | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 7 | Wexford Youths | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -6 | 6 |
| 8 | Shamrock Rovers II | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | -4 | 5 |
| 9 | Galway United | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -5 | 4 |
| 10 | Athlone Town | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 21 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -8 | 3 |