Cork City fights Bray Wanderers in First Division battle

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Competition: Republic of Ireland First Division
Competition: Fri 09.July
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Turner's Cross (7365 seats)

Cork City are ready to forget the league table before this match against Bray Wanderers. Here's all you need to know pre-match!

Insights:
  • Cork City have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (5) in First Division
  • Bray Wanderers have the most clean sheets (7) in First Division

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Cork City form and stats

With 2 First Division wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats from their home games, Cork City are certainly not brimming with confidence. Cork are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at Turner's Cross, having lost their two previous games here.

The Cork crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 2-3 to Treaty United here at Turner's Cross in a First Division match.

A defeat was the result before that one, 1-2 away at Shelbourne.

Cork City have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Turner's Cross with 11 goals in 7 league matches. Cork have conceded 11 from these games.

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Bray Wanderers form and stats

2 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss. That’s the product of Bray Wanderers, who have the most clean sheets (7) in First Division, playing as the away team in the First Division this season.

Bray Wanderers had fun at their own home (Turner's Cross) last time out, beating Cobh Ramblers 2-1. J. Doyle (2) scored.

A 0-0 draw at Athlone Town's stadium before that.

Wanderers are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 7 away goals from 7 games (in the league). 7 goals have been conceded by Bray Wanderers in these games.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Bray Wanderers - Cork City 0-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Cork eight wins, one draw and Bray Wanderers one victory. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Bray WanderersJ. Doyle
J. Doyle
6 goals
CorkC. Murphy
C. Murphy
4 goals
Cork CityB. Whitmarsh
B. Whitmarsh
3 goals

Cork City missing players

Bray Wanderers missing players

Cork City Bray Wanderers
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
14 7 1 Played P 2 7 14
3 2 0 Won W 1 2 5
3 1 0 Drew D 1 4 6
8 4 1 Lost L 0 1 3
15 11 0 Scored S 2 7 18
17 11 1 Conceded C 1 7 14
86% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 71% 71%
64% 86% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 57% 64%
43% 57% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 29% 50%
21% 43% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 14% 21%
14% 29% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 14% 14%
43% 57% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 43% 43%
29% 14% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 43% 50%
43% 29% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 43% 36%
 
5.6 5.1 5 Corners for (avg) C F 6.5 5.3 5.6
4.1 3.3 3 Corners against (avg) C A 4 4 3.7
2.3 3 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 2.1 2.1
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
9.9 10.4 11 Shots (avg) S ( 11.5 9.3 9.7
3.6 4.1 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.9 3.8
29% 38% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 26% 34%
Key stats in First Division this season:
  • Bray Wanderers have the most clean sheets (7) in First Division
  • Cork City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Cork City have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (5) in First Division
  • Cork City have the fewest scored goals in the second half (6) in First Division
  • Cork City haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  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 14 11 3 0 30 11 8 6 2 0 17 7 6 5 1 0 13 4 19 36
2 Galway United 14 7 4 3 20 14 7 3 3 1 8 6 7 4 1 2 12 8 6 25
3 Treaty United 14 7 4 3 20 14 6 4 1 1 7 3 8 3 3 2 13 11 6 25
4 UCD 14 6 4 4 28 21 7 2 3 2 10 9 7 4 1 2 18 12 7 22
5 Bray Wanderers 14 5 6 3 18 14 7 3 2 2 11 7 7 2 4 1 7 7 4 21
6 Athlone Town 14 5 3 6 21 20 7 3 1 3 11 9 7 2 2 3 10 11 1 18
7 Cabinteely 14 6 0 8 13 22 7 3 0 4 6 11 7 3 0 4 7 11 -9 18
8 Cobh Ramblers 14 4 2 8 14 25 7 2 1 4 6 15 7 2 1 4 8 10 -11 14
9 Cork City 14 3 3 8 15 17 7 2 1 4 11 11 7 1 2 4 4 6 -2 12
10 Wexford Youths 14 1 1 12 11 32 7 0 1 6 7 18 7 1 0 6 4 14 -21 4

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.