Derry City vs Finn Harps: Match guide and preview

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Competition: Republic of Ireland Premier Division
Date: Fri 25.October
Match begins: 20:45 (UTC)
Venue: Brandywell Stadium (7700 seats)

With their 26 point advantage in the league table, Derry City fans are hoping to see their team collect maximum points from this game against Finn Harps.

Derry City have less rest than Finn Harps in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Premier Division game only three days ago. This match was also played here at Brandywell Stadium. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Finn Harps have had more rest. That game was an away game at St Patrick's, so at least Derry City are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

This stadium uses artificial turf, unlike Finn Harps's home stadium. The visitors last six games on artificial turf have ended in 0 wins, 0 draws and 6 losses.

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Derry City form and stats

8-4-5 (win-draw-lost) are the Premier Division numbers at home for Derry City so far this season.

The Derry City fans got no joy from their last match, a Premier Division game also here at Brandywell Stadium: A 1-3 defeat against St Patrick's (placed 5th). In the preceding match a 2-1 victory visiting Sligo Rovers.

The Derry City fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 27 goals in 17 league matches. Derry City have only conceded 15 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Finn Harps form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Finn Harps so far with only 7 points returning home. The records show 1-4-12 (win-draw-lose).

Finn Harps won their last game, 1-0 versus Waterford United played at home. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Shamrock Rovers wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.

Goals are few and far between in Finn Harps's away league games. Only 7 goals from 17 travels. Finn Harps have conceded 36 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the Finn Harps - Derry City 1-0 earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 7 Derry City victories, 1 draw and 2 Finn Harps wins. 6 of these games ended with three goals or more, 4 matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Derry CityJ. Ogedi-Uzokwe
J. Ogedi-Uzokwe
11 goals
Derry City
D. Parkhouse
11 goals / 1 assists
Derry CityC. Harkin
C. Harkin
5 goals / 1 assists

Derry City missing players

Finn Harps missing players

Derry City Finn Harps
Total Home Home vs low Statistics Stat Away vs mid Away Total
35 17 6 Played P 4 17 35
14 8 5 Won W 0 1 7
12 4 1 Drew D 2 4 7
9 5 0 Lost L 2 12 21
52 27 14 Scored S 2 7 26
34 15 2 Conceded C 5 36 60
86% 88% 83% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 88% 89%
74% 82% 83% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 59% 60%
43% 41% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 47% 46%
34% 29% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 29% 23%
9% 6% 17% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 12% 14%
40% 24% 17% BTTS BTTS 50% 24% 29%
37% 53% 83% Clean Sheets C S 25% 18% 29%
37% 35% 17% Failed to Score F T 50% 71% 54%
 
4.3 4.5 6.5 Corners For (avg) C F 4 2.6 3.2
3.6 3.4 2.2 Corners Against (avg) C A 5.8 6.4 5.5
1.6 1.5 2 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 3 3 2.4
1 0 0 Red Cards R C 1 4 5
Key stats this season:
  • Derry City have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Finn Harps have scored away.
  • Finn Harps have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • 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.

Derry City
All Premier Division Europa League League Cup FAI Cup
All Home Away Home vs low
16-08-19 PD Derry City 0 - 2 Shamrock Rovers
23-08-19 FAI Derry City 2 - 2 Dundalk
30-08-19 PD Waterford United 1 - 1 Derry City
14-09-19 LC Derry City 2 - 2 Dundalk
20-09-19 PD Derry City 0 - 0 Bohemians
27-09-19 PD Derry City 4 - 0 Cork City
04-10-19 PD Dundalk 1 - 0 Derry City
19-10-19 PD Sligo Rovers 1 - 2 Derry City
22-10-19 PD Derry City 1 - 3 St Patrick's
25-10-19 PD Derry City 20:45 Finn Harps
Finn Harps
All Premier Division League Cup First Division FAI Cup
All Home Away Away vs mid
02-08-19 PD Finn Harps 1 - 0 Bohemians
09-08-19 FAI Shamrock Rovers 1 - 0 Finn Harps
16-08-19 PD Dundalk 5 - 0 Finn Harps
06-09-19 PD Finn Harps 1 - 2 St Patrick's
13-09-19 PD Sligo Rovers 3 - 1 Finn Harps
20-09-19 PD Cork City 0 - 0 Finn Harps
04-10-19 PD Finn Harps 0 - 0 UCD
11-10-19 PD Shamrock Rovers 1 - 0 Finn Harps
18-10-19 PD Finn Harps 1 - 0 Waterford United
25-10-19 PD Derry City 20:45 Finn Harps

  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 35 26 5 4 69 18 17 15 2 0 39 8 18 11 3 4 30 10 51 83
2 Shamrock Rovers 35 22 6 7 59 21 17 11 4 2 29 7 18 11 2 5 30 14 38 72
3 Bohemians 35 16 9 10 45 27 17 10 3 4 32 14 18 6 6 6 13 13 18 57
4 Derry City 35 14 12 9 52 34 17 8 4 5 27 15 18 6 8 4 25 19 18 54
5 St Patrick's 35 14 10 11 29 31 18 7 5 6 13 16 17 7 5 5 16 15 -2 52
6 Sligo Rovers 35 10 12 13 37 45 18 5 8 5 19 17 17 5 4 8 18 28 -8 42
7 Waterford United 35 11 7 17 42 51 17 5 4 8 22 24 18 6 3 9 20 27 -9 40
8 Cork City 35 9 10 16 29 46 18 4 7 7 16 23 17 5 3 9 13 23 -17 37
9 Finn Harps 35 7 7 21 26 60 18 6 3 9 19 24 17 1 4 12 7 36 -34 28
10 UCD 35 5 4 26 23 78 18 5 1 12 17 30 17 0 3 14 6 48 -55 19

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