A quick look at the Premier Division table suggests advantage St Patrick's when they travel to Derry City. But; let's play before the points are handed out!
- Derry City have yet to win a game at home.
- St Patrick's have the most clean sheets (5) in Premier Division
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's stadium, The Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium, has a artifical turf surface. St Patrick's 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 St Patrick's when playing on artifical turf; 1 win, 5 draws and 5 losses from eleven matches. They have scored 9 goals in these games and conceded 15.
Derry City form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Premier Division this season. Derry City have only managed 0 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses from their games here at The Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium.
It's back home for Derry, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Waterford United away with the result 1-0. R. Boyce found the net in that victory.
1-1 away at Shamrock Rovers before that.There will be little rest for Derry after this match as they are travelling to Drogheda United for a Premier Division game in only four days.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Derry here at The Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (5 from 6 games). With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Derry City defense is not exactly impregnable. 9 goals conceded from 6 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
St Patrick's form and stats
The visitors, who have the most clean sheets (5) in Premier Division, are W2-D3-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Premier Division.
St Patrick's go into this game after a win, the home game against Bohemians that ended 2-1. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager S. O'Donnell when R. Benson scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 55th minute. The end of the last match, against Bohemians, was very satisfying as R. Benson scored the winning goal deep into overtime.
Prior to that match, the Patrick's manager S. O'Donnell faced defeat when travelling to Drogheda United and losing 1-3.After this away game Patrick's return home for a Premier Division game against Dundalk. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Patrick's have scored 7 goals in 6 league games away. As opposed to that, Patrick's have seen the ball go into their own net 6 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; St Patrick's - Derry 2-0. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Derry won four games, two matches ended with a draw and St Patrick's has four wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: four / sixTop Goalscorers
  C. McJannett 4 goals |   C. Forrester 3 goals | R. Coughlin 3 goals |
Derry City missing players
St Patrick's missing players
| Derry City | St Patrick's | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 12 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | 5 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 7 | 18 |
| 15 | 9 | 2 | Conceded | C | 1 | 6 | 10 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 83% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 83% | 83% |
| 25% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 17% | 42% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 17% | 8% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 58% | 83% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 58% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 42% |
| 25% | 17% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.1 | 2.2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2 | 2.3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6.2 | 6.5 | 3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12 | 7.2 | 8.9 |
| 2.3 | 2.5 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 3 | 3.8 |
| 36% | 33% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 39% | 39% |
- All of Derry City's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Derry City have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Derry City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Derry City have yet to win a game at home.
- Derry City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- St Patrick's have scored in all their matches so far.
- St Patrick's have the fewest scored goals in the first half (3) in Premier Division
- St Patrick's have the most clean sheets (5) in Premier Division
- St Patrick's have the most scored goals in the second half (15) in Premier Division
- St Patrick's haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 27 |
| 2 | Sligo Rovers | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 25 |
| 3 | St Patrick's | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 24 |
| 4 | Drogheda United | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 22 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 12 | 19 |
| 5 | Finn Harps | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -6 | 15 |
| 6 | Bohemians | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 14 |
| 7 | Dundalk | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 14 |
| 8 | Derry City | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -5 | 13 |
| 9 | Longford Town | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | -12 | 7 |
| 10 | Waterford United | 12 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 25 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 11 | -20 | 6 |