Derry City - Cork City. 2nd position versus 9th position. The ball is round - get a comprehensive overview of the game here!
- Derry City have the fewest conceded goals (6) at home in Premier Division
- Cork City have the most dropped points from leading position (15) in Premier 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.
Derry City form and stats
Derry City have collected 16 points from their Premier Division home games so far after 4-4-3. Their last two home games have resulted in two points, meaning they were both draws.
The home club members saw a 0-0 draw versus Bohemians last time out and are looking for a win here.
Prior to that, an away loss at St Patrick's.Derry City are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found 7 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 3, drew 2 and lost 2.
It should be taken into account that a peek at the 10 latest league matches shows that 8 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the teams scored a goal).
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Derry City as they are travelling to their away game against Shamrock Rovers in the Premier Division. That match is three days after this one.
Derry are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 12 goals in 11 games. Derry City have only conceded 6 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Cork City form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Cork City so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 1-2-6 (win-draw-lose).
Cork City might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Dundalk proved too strong as Cork City slumped to a 1-2 defeat in front of their own fans at Turner's Cross. That defeat was their first after four consecutive league matches winning points.
Prior to that match, a home win 2-1 against Bohemians.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Cork played away with similar odds. This revealed 6 games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 1 time, 1 were draw and the home team won as expected 4 times.
Cork City have conceded 22 goals in these games. Cork has visited these top teams two times, and 2 of 2 has ended with 2 goals or more!
Head 2 Head
Derry City have avoided defeat in the last 9 matches (7-2-0) against Cork City.The two duelists also faced each other earlier on this campaign: Cork City - Derry City 1-3.
Top Goalscorers
  R. Keating 7 goals |  J. McEneff 6 goals | M. Duffy 4 goals |
Derry City missing players
Cork City missing players
| Derry City | Cork City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 21 | 11 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 9 | 20 |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 6 | 11 |
| 28 | 12 | 5 | Scored | S | 4 | 9 | 24 |
| 16 | 6 | 3 | Conceded | C | 8 | 22 | 36 |
| 86% | 73% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 57% | 55% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 78% | 75% |
| 33% | 18% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 60% |
| 24% | 9% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 44% | 35% |
| 10% | 9% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 22% | 15% |
| 33% | 18% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 44% | 50% |
| 48% | 55% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 11% | 25% |
| 33% | 55% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 44% | 25% |
| 6.5 | 7.6 | 9.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 2.7 | 3.5 |
| 3.6 | 3.2 | 2.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 10.5 | 6.4 | 5.7 |
| 2 | 1.7 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.1 | 1.9 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 13.4 | 16.6 | 22.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.5 | 8.9 | 9.6 |
| 3.9 | 4.6 | 7.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 3.7 | 3.5 |
| 35% | 24% | 23% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 27% | 34% |
| 8.6 | 7.5 | 7.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 23.5 | 15.9 | 12.5 |
| 2.6 | 1.8 | 3.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 4.7 | 4 |
- Cork City have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Cork City have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Cork City have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Cork City have the fewest points from losing position (1) in Premier Division
- Cork City have the most conceded goals in the second half (25) in Premier Division
- Cork City have the most dropped points from leading position (15) in Premier Division
- Cork City have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Cork City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Derry City have the fewest conceded goals (6) at home in Premier Division
- Derry City have the most clean sheets (6) at home in Premier Division
- Derry City have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
| 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 | 21 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 44 | 18 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 26 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 3 | 26 | 42 |
| 2 | Derry City | 21 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 28 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 12 | 36 |
| 3 | St Patrick's | 21 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 37 | 30 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 19 | 22 | 7 | 35 |
| 4 | Bohemians | 20 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 28 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 34 |
| 5 | Dundalk | 21 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 31 | 28 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 22 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 32 |
| 6 | Shelbourne | 20 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 20 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 30 |
| 7 | Drogheda United | 20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 20 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 15 | -7 | 23 |
| 8 | Sligo Rovers | 20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 20 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 13 | -7 | 23 |
| 9 | Cork City | 20 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 24 | 36 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 22 | -12 | 21 |
| 10 | UCD | 20 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 49 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 32 | -38 | 6 |
