Only a win will satisfy the Bray Wanderers supporters in this Carlisle Grounds clash with Shamrock Rovers II, having a healthy lead on the opposition in the First Division table.
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.
Bray Wanderers form and stats
The story so far in the First Division for Bray Wanderers, who have the most clean sheets (3) at home in First Division, at their home stadium (Carlisle Grounds) is 3 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats. Hopes of three in a row are alive for Wanderers after consecutive victories at their own ground.
Bray Wanderers are confident in defense, having played 183 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.
Bray Wanderers's previous game was a First Division match also played at home, ending 2-0 versus UCD (placed 5th). The home side are looking to build on that result. Before that, Wanderers had a home game versus UCD which ended with a victory 2-0.
Wanderers are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found three matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won two, drew zero and lost one.
Wanderers are traveling soon after this match as the First Division match at Galway United awaits in three days.
A decent goal production from Wanderers in their home games so far, with 6 goals from 4 league matches. Wanderers have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 0 goals.
Shamrock Rovers II form and stats
No First Division points yet away for Shamrock Rovers II, from their first 3 matches. A depressing five defeats in a row for Shamrock in their away games. Unhappy days, as the last time they avoided a loss on the road was versus Finn Harps.
Shamrock go into this game after a win, the home game against Wexford Youths that ended 2-0. A 1-3 defeat away at UCD before that.
We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Shamrock played away with similar odds. This revealed one game. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, zero were draws and the home team won as expected one time.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Shamrock manager A. Price as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Athlone Town.
Goals are few and far between in Shamrock's away league games. Only 1 goal from 3 travels. The Shamrock Rovers II manager A. Price has some worries about the defense as 6 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  D. Lynch 4 goals |  G. Shaw 3 goals |  T. Oluwya 2 goals |
Bray Wanderers missing players
Shamrock Rovers II missing players
| Bray Wanderers | Shamrock Rovers II | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| 11 | 6 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 86% | 75% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 86% | 75% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 67% | 83% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 33% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 33% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 50% |
| 71% | 100% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 14% | 25% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 6.8 | 7.5 | 9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 3.7 | 4.2 |
| 1 | 1.5 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2 | 1.4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | 17 | 11 | Total Shots | T S | 10 | 10 | 15 |
| 7 | 5 | 2 | Shots on Target | S O | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 71% | 40% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 33% | 67% |
- Bray Wanderers has the fewest conceded goals (0) at home
- Bray Wanderers has the most clean sheets (3) at home
- Bray Wanderers has the the best goal difference (+6) at home
- Bray Wanderers have created more than twice as many corners as Shamrock Rovers II.
- Bray Wanderers have not yet conceded a single goal in all their home games.
- Bray Wanderers have not yet lost a game at home.
- Bray Wanderers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Bray Wanderers have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Shamrock Rovers II have scored away.
- Bray Wanderers have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Shamrock Rovers II has the fewest points (0) away
- Shamrock Rovers II have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- 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 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 19 |
| 2 | Longford Town | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 16 |
| 3 | Bray Wanderers | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 13 |
| 4 | Drogheda United | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 12 |
| 5 | UCD | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 | -5 | 8 |
| 6 | Wexford Youths | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 6 |
| 7 | Shamrock Rovers II | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | -3 | 5 |
| 8 | Cobh Ramblers | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | -4 | 5 |
| 9 | Galway United | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | -4 | 4 |
| 10 | Athlone Town | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -7 | 3 |