Premier Division match preview: Cork City versus Dundalk

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Competition: Republic of Ireland Premier Division
Date: Fri 18.October
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Turner's Cross (7485 seats)

Struggling Cork City will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Dundalk in the upcoming league round. It’s 8th vs 1st and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Dundalk have a different surface at their stadium (artificial turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 25-6-9 (win-draw-loss) from 40 matches.

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Cork City form and stats

With 3 Premier Division wins, 7 draws and 7 defeats from their home games, Cork City are certainly not brimming with confidence.

The Cork City supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host UCD in Premier Division and win 3-2. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Bohemians (0-1).

Cork City have scored 15 league goals here from 17 matches, not a lot. On the other hand, Cork City have conceded 23 goals.

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Dundalk form and stats

Dundalk, who have the most scored goals (69) in Premier Division, have an excellent away record in the Premier Division so far with 11-3-3 from 17 games.

Two away games in a row for Dundalk, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-2 versus Bohemians in the Premier Division. That result followed a home victory 1-0 versus Derry City.

Dundalk are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 30 times in 17 away games so far. It's not easy to score on Dundalk as they have only conceded 9 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: Dundalk - Cork City 1-0. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 1 Cork City victory, 2 draws and 7 Dundalk wins. 2 of these games ended with three goals or more, 8 matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

P. Hoban
13 goals / 1 assists
M. Duffy
12 goals
D. Kelly
8 goals

Cork City missing players

Dundalk missing players

Cork City Dundalk
Total Home Home vs top Statistics Stat Away vs low Away Total
34 17 4 Played P 6 17 34
8 3 1 Won W 5 11 26
10 7 2 Drew D 1 3 5
16 7 1 Lost L 0 3 3
28 15 4 Scored S 16 30 69
46 23 4 Conceded C 2 9 17
85% 76% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 94% 97%
65% 71% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 83% 71% 71%
29% 29% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 41% 53%
18% 24% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 18% 24%
12% 18% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 17% 6% 9%
41% 47% 50% BTTS BTTS 33% 29% 32%
26% 35% 50% Clean Sheets C S 67% 65% 65%
47% 41% 25% Failed to Score F T 0% 12% 6%
 
3.9 4.2 2.8 Corners For (avg) C F 7.2 5.6 6.7
4.4 4.2 3.2 Corners Against (avg) C A 2.7 3.4 3.3
2.2 1.8 2 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 0.8 1.5 1.6
3 1 0 Red Cards R C 0 1 2
Key stats This season:
  • Dundalk have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Dundalk have scored more than double the goals of Cork City.
  • Dundalk have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.

Cork City
All Champions League Premier Division Europa League League Cup Club Friendlies FAI Cup
All Home Away
23-08-19 FAI Galway United 1 - 0 Cork City
30-08-19 PD Cork City 2 - 4 Sligo Rovers
02-09-19 PD Cork City 1 - 2 Waterford United
06-09-19 PD Dundalk 1 - 0 Cork City
20-09-19 PD Cork City 0 - 0 Finn Harps
27-09-19 PD Derry City 4 - 0 Cork City
04-10-19 PD Bohemians 1 - 0 Cork City
11-10-19 PD Cork City 3 - 2 UCD
18-10-19 PD Cork City 18:45 Dundalk
25-10-19 PD Shamrock Rovers 18:45 Cork City
Dundalk
All Champions League Premier Division Europa League League Cup Club Friendlies Leinster Senior Cup FAI Cup
All Home Away
09-09-19 FAI Waterford United 1 - 3 Dundalk
14-09-19 LC Derry City 2 - 2 Dundalk
20-09-19 PD Waterford United 0 - 1 Dundalk
23-09-19 PD Dundalk 3 - 2 Shamrock Rovers
29-09-19 FAI Sligo Rovers 0 - 1 Dundalk
04-10-19 PD Dundalk 1 - 0 Derry City
11-10-19 PD Bohemians 2 - 1 Dundalk
18-10-19 PD Cork City 18:45 Dundalk
25-10-19 PD Dundalk 18:45 St Patrick's
03-11-19 FAI Shamrock Rovers 15:30 Dundalk

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Dundalk 34 26 5 3 69 17 17 15 2 0 39 8 17 11 3 3 30 9 52 83
2 Shamrock Rovers 34 21 6 7 56 21 17 11 4 2 29 7 17 10 2 5 27 14 35 69
3 Bohemians 34 16 8 10 45 27 17 10 3 4 32 14 17 6 5 6 13 13 18 56
4 Derry City 33 13 12 8 49 30 16 8 4 4 26 12 17 5 8 4 23 18 19 51
5 St Patrick's 33 13 9 11 26 30 17 7 4 6 13 16 16 6 5 5 13 14 -4 48
6 Sligo Rovers 34 10 12 12 36 43 17 5 8 4 18 15 17 5 4 8 18 28 -7 42
7 Waterford United 34 11 7 16 42 50 17 5 4 8 22 24 17 6 3 8 20 26 -8 40
8 Cork City 34 8 10 16 28 46 17 3 7 7 15 23 17 5 3 9 13 23 -18 34
9 Finn Harps 34 6 7 21 25 60 17 5 3 9 18 24 17 1 4 12 7 36 -35 25
10 UCD 34 5 4 25 23 75 17 5 1 11 17 27 17 0 3 14 6 48 -52 19

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