Season ticket holders at The Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Derry City languishing in the 8th position so far. The guesting Shelbourne will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.
There haven't been much time to rest for the hosts, as they played a Premier Division match only four days ago. This match was also played here at The Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Shelbourne have had more rest.
0-0-2 (wins/draws/losses). These are the numbers for Shelbourne when playing away games on artifical turf, which is not the surface they have on their own home stadium (which has grass). Their goal statistics from those two matches are 5-10 (scored/conceded).
Derry City form and stats
3-2-3 (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 The Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium: A 1-2 defeat against Dundalk (placed 3rd). Before that, Derry City had a home game versus Waterford United which ended with a victory 2-0.
This is expected to be a close game, with Derry City perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Derry City as a small favourite), we find three games. Derry has won one of these, drawn zero and lost two.
Derry are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 10 goals in 8 games. On the other hand, Derry have conceded 8 goals.
Shelbourne form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Premier Division travels is 3 wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats.
The Shelbourne goalkeeper is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 190 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
G. Deegan scored in Shelbourne's previous match, the home game against Sligo Rovers that ended 1-0. Before that one, a nice away victory 1-0 at Waterford United.
So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Shelbourne playing away and similar expectations, we found four relevant matches. Results were three Shelbourne wins, zero draws and one defeat.
The attacking power of Shelbourne when travelling is not overwhelming with 6 goals scored from 8 league matches away. It's worth mentioning that 3 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. 9 goals have been conceded by Shelbourne in these games. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Shelbourne - Derry 1-1 entered in the official records. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: six - two - two (Derry wins - draws - Shelbourne wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  W. Capango Figueira 3 goals | J. Akintunde 3 goals |   R. Brennan 3 goals |
Derry City missing players
Shelbourne missing players
| Derry City | Shelbourne | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 8 | 16 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 15 | 10 | 2 | Scored | S | 3 | 6 | 13 |
| 15 | 8 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 9 | 18 |
| 87% | 88% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 88% | 94% |
| 73% | 88% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 33% | 50% | 56% |
| 33% | 38% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 25% | 25% |
| 7% | 12% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 12% | 12% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | 6% |
| 47% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 25% | 44% |
| 33% | 38% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 50% | 38% |
| 33% | 25% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 38% | 25% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 2 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 2 | 1.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 127 | 86 | 11 | Total Shots | T S | 21 | 32 | 89 |
| 49 | 31 | 8 | Shots on Target | S O | 5 | 9 | 39 |
| 31% | 32% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 60% | 33% | 26% |
- Derry City has the most dropped points from leading position (11) in Premier Division
- Derry City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
| 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 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 40 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 6 | 30 | 38 |
| 2 | Bohemians | 16 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 21 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 34 |
| 3 | Dundalk | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 27 | 21 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 28 |
| 4 | Waterford United | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | -5 | 21 |
| 5 | St Patrick's | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -1 | 19 |
| 6 | Shelbourne | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 9 | -5 | 19 |
| 7 | Sligo Rovers | 16 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 15 | 22 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 12 | -7 | 19 |
| 8 | Derry City | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 16 |
| 9 | Finn Harps | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -11 | 11 |
| 10 | Cork City | 16 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 27 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 18 | -19 | 10 |