Club members at United Park haven’t witnessed many victories this season, with Drogheda United rotting in the 7th spot. The guesting Dundalk will hope to protect their higher league position in this fixture.
- Drogheda United haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Dundalk have the most points from losing position (14) in Premier Division
This ground has the surface grass, unlike Dundalk's home stadium. The last 37 games by the away team on grass have produced 11 wins, 13 draws and 13 losses.
This has all the signs of an engaging fixture with lots of action and excitement as both squads are well renewed since they last saw competitive action. Get ready!
Drogheda United form and stats
Drogheda United have played 10 Premier Division games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 3-2-5 (wins-draws-losses).
Drogheda United's last game was hosting St Patrick's (placed 3rd) and winning 2-1. A late climax in the match against St Patrick's as the winning goal came four minutes into overtime; scored by Markey.
Heartbreak before that as Drogheda United lost 2-3 at Shelbourne's place.Drogheda aren't scoring a lot here at United Park in the league, with only {9 goals} from 10 games. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Drogheda United's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 12 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Dundalk form and stats
Playing away, Dundalk have won 4 games, drawn 2 and suffered 5 defeats in the Premier Division this season.
Two trips in a row for Dundalk, whose coach O'Donnell could celebrate last time after the win against Cork City.
A home win before that, celebrating 4-1 vs UCD.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 7 similar matches played by Dundalk in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Dundalk, 2 draws and 3 defeats.
After this away game Dundalk return home for a Premier Division game against St Patrick's. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Dundalk as they have only managed to score 9 times from 11 away games in the league. Dundalk have conceded 12 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Drogheda United and Dundalk have met already this season: Dundalk - Drogheda United 3-2. Deegan (Drogheda) was given a red card by the ref when these teams last played each other. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Drogheda United three wins, one draw and Dundalk six victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  F. Draper 8 goals |  P. Hoban 7 goals |  R. Tulloch 5 goals |
Drogheda United missing players
Dundalk missing players
| Drogheda United | Dundalk | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 10 | 2 | Played | P | 4 | 11 | 21 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 4 | 9 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 9 | 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 5 | 7 |
| 20 | 9 | 1 | Scored | S | 5 | 9 | 31 |
| 27 | 12 | 3 | Conceded | C | 2 | 12 | 28 |
| 95% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 91% | 95% |
| 65% | 60% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 64% | 81% |
| 40% | 30% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 36% | 62% |
| 25% | 20% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 29% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 55% | 50% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 25% | 36% | 57% |
| 20% | 10% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 36% | 24% |
| 30% | 40% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 36% | 24% |
| 6 | 6.9 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.8 | 4.8 | 5.1 |
| 4.8 | 4 | 2.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 5.1 | 4.8 |
| 2.5 | 2.7 | 3.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 2.1 | 1.9 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 13.3 | 17 | 14.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 10.2 | 11.6 |
| 3.2 | 3.9 | 3.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 2.7 | 4 |
| 31% | 23% | 14% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 30% | 37% |
| 12.4 | 10.7 | 8.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.8 | 11.8 | 10.8 |
| 3.7 | 3.2 | 3.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.9 | 3.6 |
- Drogheda United haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Dundalk have the most points from losing position (14) 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 | 21 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 44 | 18 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 26 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 3 | 26 | 42 |
| 2 | Derry City | 21 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 28 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 12 | 36 |
| 3 | St Patrick's | 21 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 37 | 30 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 19 | 22 | 7 | 35 |
| 4 | Bohemians | 20 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 28 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 34 |
| 5 | Dundalk | 21 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 31 | 28 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 22 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 32 |
| 6 | Shelbourne | 20 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 20 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 30 |
| 7 | Drogheda United | 20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 20 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 15 | -7 | 23 |
| 8 | Sligo Rovers | 20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 20 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 13 | -7 | 23 |
| 9 | Cork City | 20 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 24 | 36 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 22 | -12 | 21 |
| 10 | UCD | 20 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 49 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 32 | -38 | 6 |
