Premier Division: Tipsway are looking at an intriguing and highly important battle starring Cork City and Sligo Rovers at Turner's Cross. They both need to win this!
- Cork City have the most conceded goals (33) in Premier Division
- Sligo Rovers have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Premier Division
It's no vacation for neither Cork nor Sligo Rovers as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Cork City form and stats
Cork City's struggle is real here at Turner's Cross with only 7 points collected from 7 Premier Division games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-1-4. When Cork City hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Drogheda United, UCD and Cork City), they have won 1 of 2 matches!
A nice win for Cork City last time playing, versus Sligo Rovers. That was also a home game and the match ended 1-0. A huge relief, as that was the first league win after playing, but not winning, six games in a row.
Prior to that, an away loss at Dundalk.Cork City are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 10 goals in 7 games. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 11 goals have been conceded.
Sligo Rovers form and stats
Playing away, Sligo Rovers have won 3 games, drawn 1 and suffered 3 defeats in the Premier Division this season. Three has not been a lucky number for Rovers as they have been defeated three times in a row since the St Patrick's match.
The attacking players of Sligo Rovers have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 214 minutes.
It might be tough going out on the road again for Rovers, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-1 versus Cork City (placed 9th).
The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-3 defeat against Shelbourne.Sligo Rovers find the net regularly in their away games. 9 goals from 7 away fixtures in the league. As opposed to that, Sligo Rovers have seen the ball go into their own net 9 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Sligo Rovers - Cork City 2-2 was the end result in these teams' previous head to head match, played this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Cork victories, three draws and three Sligo Rovers wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  M. Mata 9 goals |  R. Keating 5 goals | D. Crowley 3 goals |
Cork City missing players
Sligo Rovers missing players
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| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 8 | 16 |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 10 | 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 19 | 11 | 5 | Scored | S | 3 | 9 | 18 |
| 33 | 11 | 1 | Conceded | C | 3 | 10 | 21 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 81% | 75% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 62% | 69% |
| 62% | 50% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| 44% | 38% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 12% | 19% |
| 19% | 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 12% | 6% |
| 50% | 50% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 62% | 62% |
| 19% | 38% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 12% | 6% |
| 31% | 12% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 25% | 31% |
| 3.8 | 4.6 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 5.1 | 5.6 |
| 5.4 | 4.6 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 10 | 7.5 | 6.1 |
| 2.1 | 1.8 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.9 | 2.6 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9.5 | 10.2 | 9.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 15 | 11.6 | 12.1 |
| 3.6 | 3.5 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 3.9 | 3.6 |
| 33% | 39% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 29% | 32% |
| 11.9 | 8.2 | 6.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 19.5 | 12.6 | 11.5 |
| 4.2 | 3.4 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.1 | 3.6 |
- Cork City have the fewest matches under the total-line (5) in Premier Division
- Cork City have the most conceded goals (33) in Premier Division
- Cork City have the most conceded goals in the second half (23) in Premier Division
- Cork City have the most dropped points from leading position (12) in Premier Division
- Cork City have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Cork City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Cork City is in the worst form (0-0-5)
- Sligo Rovers have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Premier Division
- Sligo Rovers 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 | Shamrock Rovers | 16 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 34 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 19 | 33 |
| 2 | Derry City | 16 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 23 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 13 | 31 |
| 3 | Bohemians | 15 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 23 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 28 |
| 4 | Dundalk | 16 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 22 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 25 |
| 5 | Shelbourne | 15 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 24 |
| 6 | St Patrick's | 16 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 26 | 25 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 19 | 1 | 23 |
| 7 | Sligo Rovers | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | -2 | 19 |
| 8 | Drogheda United | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -9 | 14 |
| 9 | Cork City | 15 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 18 | 33 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 22 | -15 | 9 |
| 10 | UCD | 15 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 31 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 17 | -24 | 6 |
