The visiting Longford Town side should be favourites in this visit to Shamrock Rovers II, as the away team holds a 11 point advantage from their ten league games this season.
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the First Division.
Shamrock Rovers II form and stats
Shamrock Rovers II must be fairly happy with 5 points from their first three First Division games here at Tallaght Stadium.
A good away victory last time out for Shamrock Rovers II, who won 4-0 against Athlone Town (placed 10th). Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Bray Wanderers (0-1).
As indicated by the result mentioned above, Shamrock played a great game against Athlone Town and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Shamrock, as the First Division home game vs Cobh Ramblers is only three days away.
The Shamrock Rovers II fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 5 goals in 3 league matches. 3 goals have been conceded.
Longford Town form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team, who have the most clean sheets (4) away in First Division, on their First Division travels is 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat.
The supporters enjoyed Longford Town's previous game versus Wexford Youths (placed 8th), a First Division 3-1 win played at home. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Cobh Ramblers wasn't a success with a 0-2 loss.
The attacking power of Longford when travelling is not overwhelming with 3 goals scored from 5 league matches away. Longford are tight as a drum on their travels, having allowed the opposition only 2 goals away.
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the Longford Town - Shamrock 2-0 earlier this season. As for the last five games between these two teams, there's one Shamrock victory, zero draws and four Longford Town wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, one match with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. McCabe 4 goals | S. Verdon 4 goals |   B. Kavanagh 3 goals |
Shamrock Rovers II missing players
Longford Town missing players
| Shamrock Rovers II | Longford Town | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | Scored | S | 2 | 3 | 11 |
| 10 | 3 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 80% | 90% |
| 75% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 20% | 60% |
| 38% | 33% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 38% | 33% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 38% | 67% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 25% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 80% | 60% |
| 38% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 40% | 30% |
| 1.3 | 1 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 1.5 | 1.8 |
| 3.6 | 5 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 3.5 | 2.2 |
| 1.3 | 0.5 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 3 | 1.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | 5 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 8 | 23 |
| 14 | 3 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 57% | 100% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 25% | 50% |
- All of Shamrock Rovers II's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Longford Town has the most clean sheets (4) away
- Longford Town have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Shamrock Rovers II have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- Shamrock Rovers II have not yet lost a game at home.
- Shamrock Rovers II have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- 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 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 22 |
| 2 | Longford Town | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 19 |
| 3 | Drogheda United | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 18 |
| 4 | Bray Wanderers | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 17 |
| 5 | UCD | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -1 | 14 |
| 6 | Cobh Ramblers | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| 7 | Shamrock Rovers II | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 8 |
| 8 | Wexford Youths | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 12 | -11 | 6 |
| 9 | Galway United | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -5 | 5 |
| 10 | Athlone Town | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 25 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -12 | 3 |