Another adrenaline-pumping game in First Division as Wexford Youths receive Athlone Town

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Competition: Republic of Ireland First Division
Competition: Fri 04.March
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Ferrycarrig Park (2500 seats)

Wexford Youths look forward to clash heads with Athlone Town in this First Division fixture. All you should learn about the fixture is found right here!

This could be an engaging match with lots of spark and energy as both squads are well recovered since they last saw competitive action. Let's get started!

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Wexford Youths form and stats

Wexford Youths's first First Division home game here at Ferrycarrig Park ended in defeat. Last season their home statistics were 4 wins, 2 draws and 7 defeats from 13 matches.

Happy days for Wexford Youths in their previous game, a fixture away at Cobh Ramblers (placed 7th) that ended with a 3-2 victory.

Preceding that match was the home game against Treaty United that was lost 1-5.

Wexford Youths has scored 1 goal so far and conceded 5 goals from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.

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Athlone Town form and stats

Let's have a look at how Athlone Town performed last season in the First Division: They landed a 7th position in the league table after playing out 9 victories, 6 draws and 12 defeats. In total they scored 32 and conceded 43 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 4 - drew 5 and lost 5 with 15/22 goals scored/conceded.

Athlone failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Waterford United (placed 1st) that ended with defeat 2-5.

The game before that, was lost at home, a 1-2 defeat against Cobh Ramblers.

Head 2 Head

Wexford Youths-Athlone Town H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Wexford Youths four wins, Athlone Town five wins, one draw. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Athlone TownG. McAuley
G. McAuley
2 goals
Wexford YouthsT. Considine
T. Considine
1 goals

Wexford Youths missing players

Athlone Town missing players

Wexford Youths Athlone Town
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
2 1 0 Played P 0 0 1
1 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
1 1 0 Lost L 0 0 1
4 1 0 Scored S 0 0 2
7 5 0 Conceded C 0 0 5
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 100% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 100% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 100% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 100% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 100%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
3 3 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 2
5 3 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 8
2 1 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 0
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
14.5 20 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 8
7 7 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 3
29% 14% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 67%
 
10.5 12 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 0 11
5.5 6 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 0 7
Wexford Youths Last season Athlone Town
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
27 13   Played P   14 27
6 4   Won W   4 9
3 2   Drew D   5 6
18 7   Lost L   5 12
29 19   Scored S   15 32
56 26   Conceded C   22 43
96% 92%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   93% 93%
78% 77%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   57% 70%
67% 77%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   43% 56%
37% 38%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   29% 30%
19% 23%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   14% 15%
52% 69%   BTTS BTTS   50% 56%
11% 8%   Clean Sheets C S   29% 26%
41% 31%   Failed to Score F T   29% 26%
 
3.9 4.4   Corners for (avg) C F   5.8 5.3
5.9 7.2   Corners against (avg) C A   6.4 6
2.1 2   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.4 2
5 2   Red cards R C   0 1
 
8.7 8.4   Shots (avg) S (   9.6 10.6
3.5 3.8   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.5 4.2
31% 39%   Goal Efficiency G E   31% 28%
 
11.3 10.5   Shots against (avg) S A   11.9 11.5
5.1 4.8   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   5 4.7

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Waterford United 2 2 0 0 6 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 5 2 4 6
2 Cork City 2 1 0 1 6 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 6 0 5 3
3 Treaty United 1 1 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 5 1 4 3
4 Galway United 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 3
5 Wexford Youths 2 1 0 1 4 7 1 0 0 1 1 5 1 1 0 0 3 2 -3 3
6 Longford Town 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Cobh Ramblers 1 0 0 1 2 3 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
8 Athlone Town 1 0 0 1 2 5 1 0 0 1 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0
9 Bray Wanderers 2 0 0 2 0 7 1 0 0 1 0 6 1 0 0 1 0 1 -7 0
Last season 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 27 16 9 2 49 23 14 8 6 0 27 12 13 8 3 2 22 11 26 57
2 Galway United 27 15 6 6 39 25 14 8 4 2 22 12 13 7 2 4 17 13 14 51
3 UCD 27 13 7 7 55 38 14 8 4 2 30 16 13 5 3 5 25 22 17 46
4 Treaty United 27 11 9 7 36 27 13 6 5 2 16 11 14 5 4 5 20 16 9 42
5 Bray Wanderers 27 9 10 8 36 31 13 5 4 4 16 11 14 4 6 4 20 20 5 37
6 Cork City 27 8 9 10 37 28 14 6 3 5 28 17 13 2 6 5 9 11 9 33
7 Athlone Town 27 9 6 12 32 43 13 5 1 7 17 21 14 4 5 5 15 22 -11 33
8 Cobh Ramblers 27 8 4 15 25 46 13 4 2 7 10 20 14 4 2 8 15 26 -21 28
9 Cabinteely 27 8 1 18 26 47 14 3 1 10 9 24 13 5 0 8 17 23 -21 25
10 Wexford Youths 27 6 3 18 29 56 13 4 2 7 19 26 14 2 1 11 10 30 -27 21

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.