Soccer game guide: Home crowds with high optimism before Bray Wanderers - Athlone Town

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Competition: Republic of Ireland First Division
Competition: Fri 10.September
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: Carlisle Grounds (3250 seats)

Bray Wanderers have taken 18 of their 33 in total here at their home ground. How will they do against Athlone Town?

Insights:
  • Bray Wanderers have the most clean sheets (10) in First Division

Bray Wanderers and Athlone Town should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Bray Wanderers form and stats

5-3-2 (win-draw-lost) are the First Division numbers at home for Bray Wanderers so far this season. Two home wins in a row for Bray Wanderers bring valid hopes of a third.

Bray Wanderers faced defeat in their previous match, away at UCD (3-4). As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today? A strange day for Bray Wanderers and G. Shaw last time out against UCD: The player scored three goals but the team still lost the match 3-4.

Preceding that game was the away draw at Shelbourne that finished 1-1.

A decent goal production from Wanderers in their home games so far, with 15 goals from 10 league matches. From these home matches, Wanderers have conceded only 8 goals.

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Athlone Town form and stats

As the visiting team in First Division matches, Athlone Town have produced an overall stat of 3-3-5 so far. Athlone has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.

Two away games in a row for Athlone Town, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-3 versus Cork City in the First Division.

Before that, Athlone secured a home win against Galway United with the score 1-0.

Athlone are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 12 away goals from 11 games (in the league). It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Athlone's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 20 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

The latest head to head encounter ended Athlone Town - Wanderers 0-0, earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Wanderers victories, four draws and two Athlone Town wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

WanderersJ. Doyle
J. Doyle
7 goals
Bray WanderersG. Shaw
G. Shaw
5 goals
Athlone TownS. Barnes
S. Barnes
5 goals

Bray Wanderers missing players

Athlone Town missing players

Bray Wanderers Athlone Town
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
21 10 3 Played P 3 11 21
8 5 3 Won W 1 3 7
9 3 0 Drew D 0 3 4
4 2 0 Lost L 2 5 10
31 15 8 Scored S 2 12 26
22 8 2 Conceded C 4 20 36
76% 70% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 91% 90%
67% 60% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 55% 67%
52% 60% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 55% 62%
29% 30% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 36% 38%
14% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 18% 19%
48% 40% 67% BTTS BTTS 33% 45% 52%
48% 60% 33% Clean Sheets C S 33% 27% 29%
29% 30% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 36% 29%
 
5.1 5.4 4.7 Corners for (avg) C F 5.7 6.1 5.5
4.9 4.4 4.3 Corners against (avg) C A 4.7 6.2 6
1.9 1.7 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.7 2.5 2.2
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
9.8 9.6 9.3 Shots (avg) S ( 6.7 9.5 10.3
3.8 3.2 4.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.7 3.5 4.1
39% 47% 57% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 31% 30%
Key stats in First Division this season:
  • Bray Wanderers have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Bray Wanderers have the fewest conceded goals (8) at home in First Division
  • Bray Wanderers have the most clean sheets (10) in First Division
  • Bray Wanderers have the most clean sheets (6) at home in First Division

  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 21 13 7 1 42 19 11 7 4 0 24 10 10 6 3 1 18 9 23 46
2 Galway United 21 11 5 5 31 20 10 5 3 2 15 10 11 6 2 3 16 10 11 38
3 UCD 21 10 6 5 44 28 11 5 4 2 22 13 10 5 2 3 22 15 16 36
4 Treaty United 21 10 6 5 32 23 11 6 3 2 15 10 10 4 3 3 17 13 9 36
5 Bray Wanderers 21 8 9 4 31 22 10 5 3 2 15 8 11 3 6 2 16 14 9 33
6 Cork City 21 6 7 8 30 25 11 4 3 4 21 15 10 2 4 4 9 10 5 25
7 Athlone Town 21 7 4 10 26 36 10 4 1 5 14 16 11 3 3 5 12 20 -10 25
8 Cabinteely 21 7 1 13 20 33 11 3 1 7 8 18 10 4 0 6 12 15 -13 22
9 Cobh Ramblers 21 5 4 12 17 38 10 3 2 5 7 17 11 2 2 7 10 21 -21 19
10 Wexford Youths 21 2 3 16 17 46 10 1 2 7 10 22 11 1 1 9 7 24 -29 9

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.