There should be a considerable gap in form between these sides based on the league table so far, with Derry City in front of Finn Harps by 42 points.
- Derry City is in the best form (5-1-0) in Premier Division
- Finn Harps have the fewest scored goals in the second half (15) in Premier Division
Derry's stadium, The Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium, has a artifical turf surface. Finn Harps have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Finn Harps when playing on artifical turf; 1 win, 0 draws and 4 losses from five matches. They have scored {3 goals} in these games and conceded 11.
Both squads have had plenty of rest since their last exertion in an official match. Let's have faith in that this will be an energetic fixture!
Derry City form and stats
When playing at home in the Premier Division, Derry City have managed 7 wins, 6 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 15 games.
Derry City are confident in defense, having played 488 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.
A strong away win for Derry against St Patrick's the last match, as Kavanagh were on target. The victory against St Patrick's came after Kavanagh's winning goal. The Derry City manager Higgins was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 68th minute.
Before that game, a home win against Shamrock Rovers (after extra-time) in the FAI Cup.
Low-scoring affair? Looking at this team's last 12 league games, 9 have had two goals or less.
Derry City have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at The Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium with 24 goals in 15 league matches. Derry have only conceded 11 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.
Finn Harps form and stats
There's been little loot from Finn Harps's travels as they have only collected 6 points from 15 away games in the Premier Division. Finn Harps only have 1 win to counter their 11 defeats and 3 draws. The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on Horgan, the Finn Harps manager, as the last three away games were defeats.
Finn Harps's last game was the home draw against Shelbourne (1-1).
The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-2 defeat against Bohemians.As mentioned above, the bookmakers do not believe the away team will get anything from this match. Checking Finn Harps's match history for similar games we find 4 matches. The home team won 4 of these as expected, 3 of them by at least two goals. Finn Harps managed 0 draws and 0 surprise wins.
Goal hungry football fans should note that 8 of this club's 10 most recent league rounds have ended with three goals or more.
The attacking power of Harps when travelling is not overwhelming with 14 goals scored from 15 league matches away. For Finn Harps, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net. Harps has visited these top teams four times, and 4 of 4 has ended with 2 goals or more!
Head 2 Head
Derry City have put together a sequence of 5 consecutive matches without defeat (2-3-0) when playing Finn Harps.The last H2H encounter ended Finn Harps - Derry 1-2, earlier this season.
Top Goalscorers
  J. McGonigle 10 goals | W. Patching 10 goals | J. Akintunde 6 goals |
Derry City missing players
Finn Harps missing players
| Derry City | Finn Harps | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 31 | 15 | 5 | Played | P | 4 | 15 | 31 |
| 17 | 7 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 10 | 6 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 4 | 11 | 20 |
| 49 | 24 | 14 | Scored | S | 2 | 14 | 29 |
| 24 | 11 | 4 | Conceded | C | 14 | 36 | 59 |
| 90% | 80% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 93% | 97% |
| 68% | 67% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 93% | 81% |
| 45% | 47% | 60% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 87% | 65% |
| 16% | 13% | 20% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 47% | 32% |
| 6% | 7% | 20% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 7% | 6% |
| 55% | 53% | 60% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 60% | 52% |
| 42% | 47% | 40% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 13% | 13% |
| 13% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 33% | 39% |
| 5.8 | 5.9 | 5.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 4.7 | 4.2 |
| 4.2 | 3.3 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7 | 4.8 | 5.1 |
| 1.4 | 1.3 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 3.1 | 3.1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 11.5 | 11.9 | 15.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8 | 8.1 | 7.7 |
| 5 | 5.3 | 7.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 3.5 | 3.1 |
| 32% | 30% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 15% | 27% | 30% |
| 6.2 | 5.2 | 5.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.5 | 10.5 | 9.6 |
| 2.6 | 2.1 | 2.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.2 | 4.9 | 4.2 |
- Derry City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Derry City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Derry City is in the best form (5-1-0) in Premier Division
- Finn Harps have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Finn Harps have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Finn Harps have the fewest matches under the total-line (7) in Premier Division
- Finn Harps have the fewest points (6) away in Premier Division
- Finn Harps have the fewest scored goals in the second half (15) in Premier Division
- Finn Harps have the most matches over the total-line (17) in Premier Division
| 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 | 31 | 20 | 6 | 5 | 50 | 18 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 7 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 11 | 32 | 66 |
| 2 | Derry City | 31 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 49 | 24 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 24 | 11 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 25 | 13 | 25 | 61 |
| 3 | Dundalk | 31 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 44 | 23 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 29 | 7 | 16 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 21 | 56 |
| 4 | St Patrick's | 31 | 15 | 7 | 9 | 47 | 30 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 21 | 15 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 26 | 15 | 17 | 52 |
| 5 | Bohemians | 31 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 38 | 37 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 19 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 18 | 1 | 42 |
| 6 | Sligo Rovers | 31 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 40 | 38 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 23 | 20 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 18 | 2 | 41 |
| 7 | Shelbourne | 31 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 30 | 40 | 16 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 24 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 16 | -10 | 36 |
| 8 | Drogheda United | 31 | 7 | 10 | 14 | 29 | 49 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 20 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 29 | -20 | 31 |
| 9 | Finn Harps | 31 | 4 | 7 | 20 | 29 | 59 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 23 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 36 | -30 | 19 |
| 10 | UCD | 31 | 4 | 7 | 20 | 22 | 60 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 24 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 36 | -38 | 19 |
