Betting prediction and preview: Bray Wanderers fancied to be better team when visiting Finn Harps

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Competition: Republic of Ireland First Division
Competition: Fri 07.Jul
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: Finn Park (7500 seats)

Finn Harps - Bray Wanderers in First Division: Stats, squad info, matches, trends and headlines. Get our thorough guide!

Insights:
  • Finn Harps have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Bray Wanderers have the most points from losing position (9) in First Division

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Finn Harps form and stats

With 1 First Division win, 5 draws and 4 defeats from their home games, Finn Harps are certainly not brimming with confidence.

In their previous game, the manager Rogers led his Harps to a defeat away at Waterford United. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Finn Park. As you see from the result above, Finn Harps suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Wexford Youths (0-1).

Harps have scored {8 league goals} here from 10 matches, not a lot. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Finn Harps have conceded 15 from these games.

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Bray Wanderers form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Bray Wanderers so far with only 11 points returning home. The records show 2-5-4 (win-draw-lose).

Bray Wanderers are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at Treaty United (placed 7th).

Before that, Bray Wanderers secured a home win against Kerry with the score 3-2.

Betting fact: Both sides have scored goal(s) in 9 of this club's latest 12 league fixtures.

Wanderers have scored 12 goals on their travels this season, from 11 away games in the league. In the opposite end, Bray Wanderers have conceded 20 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

The duelists have fought previously this season: Bray Wanderers - Finn Harps 2-0. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Harps victories, one draw and four Bray Wanderers wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Bray WanderersB. Feeney
B. Feeney
8 goals
Finn HarpsR. Flood
R. Flood
6 goals

Finn Harps missing players

Bray Wanderers missing players

Finn Harps Bray Wanderers
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
21 10 3 Played P 4 11 21
5 1 0 Won W 2 2 7
6 5 1 Drew D 2 5 8
10 4 2 Lost L 0 4 6
21 8 1 Scored S 5 12 28
46 15 5 Conceded C 2 20 33
90% 80% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
76% 70% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 91% 86%
52% 40% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 45% 52%
43% 30% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 36% 38%
29% 10% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 9% 14%
52% 50% 33% BTTS BTTS 50% 73% 67%
29% 30% 33% Clean Sheets C S 50% 18% 24%
29% 40% 67% Failed to Score F T 0% 9% 14%
 
4.2 5 6.3 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.8 5
5.4 5.2 5 Corners against (avg) C A 3.5 3.4 3.1
2.1 2.2 1.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.4 2.8
2 2 0 Red cards R C 0 1 4
 
7 8.4 10 Shots (avg) S ( 13.5 11.1 10.4
3 2.9 2.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.2 4.4 4.2
33% 28% 12% Goal Efficiency G E 24% 25% 32%
 
11.5 10.7 7.3 Shots against (avg) S A 8.5 9.4 7.8
5.3 5.1 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.2 3.7 3.4
Key stats in First Division this season:
  • Bray Wanderers have the most points from losing position (9) in First Division
  • Bray Wanderers haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Finn Harps have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Galway United 21 19 1 1 58 8 11 11 0 0 36 3 10 8 1 1 22 5 50 58
2 Waterford United 21 14 3 4 60 17 11 7 2 2 36 11 10 7 1 2 24 6 43 45
3 Cobh Ramblers 21 10 5 6 32 28 10 6 2 2 18 12 11 4 3 4 14 16 4 35
4 Athlone Town 21 9 2 10 35 33 11 5 1 5 19 16 10 4 1 5 16 17 2 29
5 Bray Wanderers 21 7 8 6 28 33 10 5 3 2 16 13 11 2 5 4 12 20 -5 29
6 Wexford Youths 21 7 4 10 24 31 10 3 2 5 9 17 11 4 2 5 15 14 -7 25
7 Treaty United 21 6 6 9 25 35 11 3 2 6 12 20 10 3 4 3 13 15 -10 24
8 Longford Town 21 5 6 10 20 28 11 3 3 5 10 14 10 2 3 5 10 14 -8 21
9 Finn Harps 21 5 6 10 21 46 10 1 5 4 8 15 11 4 1 6 13 31 -25 21
10 Kerry 21 1 3 17 14 58 10 0 2 8 5 27 11 1 1 9 9 31 -44 6

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.