The Derry City & St Patrick's head coaches Higgins and Clancy are both anxious about and feeling excited about this key match in the top regions of the Premier Division league table.
- Derry City have the most scored goals (29) in Premier Division
- St Patrick's have the most clean sheets (8) in Premier Division
This football field has artifical turf, which is not St Patrick's's familiar surface at their own football stadium. When appearing on artifical turf St Patrick's have performed like this: Played six matches earning 1 win, 4 draws and 1 defeat with the goal data 7-5 (scored/conceded).
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Derry City form and stats
4 victories, 3 draws and 1 defeat. That’s what Derry City have to build on here at The Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium in the Premier Division. Their last two home games have resulted in two points, meaning they were both draws.
The home regulars saw a 0-0 draw versus St Patrick's last time out and are looking for a win here.
Before that, Derry City drew at home versus Bohemians.The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Derry matches with similar probabilities have ended with three wins, two draws and one defeat (from six games).
A decent goal production from Derry City in their home games so far, with 15 goals from 8 league matches. It's worth mentioning that 8 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Derry City are not conceding a lot of goals here at The Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 6 from 8 matches.
St Patrick's form and stats
The visitors are W4-D1-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Premier Division.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. St Patrick's goalkeeper is eager to challenge this, with his 210 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
Patrick's are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 0-0 draw at Derry City (placed 2nd).
Before that one, a nice away victory 4-0 at Drogheda United.The travelling fans enjoy St Patrick's's attacking play in away games, having scored 12 goals in 8 league matches away. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (5 so far).
Head 2 Head
This was the end result when the contenders faced each other previously this season; Derry - St Patrick's 0-0. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - three - three (Derry City wins - draws - St Patrick's wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. McGonigle 9 goals | W. Patching 7 goals |  E. Doyle 6 goals |
Derry City missing players
St Patrick's missing players
| Derry City | St Patrick's | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 8 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 8 | 15 |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 29 | 15 | 2 | Scored | S | 0 | 12 | 19 |
| 11 | 6 | 1 | Conceded | C | 1 | 5 | 12 |
| 87% | 75% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 88% | 87% |
| 80% | 75% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 62% | 67% |
| 53% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 40% |
| 20% | 12% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 12% | 13% |
| 7% | 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 60% | 62% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 25% | 27% |
| 40% | 38% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 50% | 53% |
| 13% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 38% | 33% |
| 6.6 | 6.5 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 3.4 | 4.1 |
| 4.1 | 2.8 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 10 | 6.6 | 5.8 |
| 1 | 1.1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 1.2 | 1.4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12.3 | 12.4 | 9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 3 | 7 | 8.4 |
| 5.5 | 5.8 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 2.6 | 3.2 |
| 35% | 33% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 57% | 40% |
| 5.7 | 4.9 | 5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8 | 9 | 8.6 |
| 2.3 | 2.1 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 3.8 | 3.9 |
- Derry City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Derry City have the most points from losing position (5) in Premier Division
- Derry City have the most scored goals (29) in Premier Division
- Derry City have the most scored goals in the first half (15) in Premier Division
- Derry City have the the best goal difference (+18) in Premier Division
- Derry City have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- St Patrick's have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- St Patrick's have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
- St Patrick's have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (6) in Premier Division
- St Patrick's have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Premier Division
- St Patrick's have the most clean sheets (4) away in Premier Division
- St Patrick's have the most clean sheets (8) in Premier Division
- St Patrick's have won significantly less corners away then 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 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 27 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 16 | 33 |
| 2 | Derry City | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 29 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 18 | 32 |
| 3 | St Patrick's | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 24 |
| 4 | Dundalk | 14 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 20 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 22 |
| 5 | Sligo Rovers | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 20 |
| 6 | Bohemians | 14 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 20 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 19 |
| 7 | Shelbourne | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | -8 | 15 |
| 8 | Drogheda United | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 16 | 28 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 15 | -12 | 13 |
| 9 | Finn Harps | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -12 | 10 |
| 10 | UCD | 14 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 32 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 23 | -23 | 5 |
