The visiting Shamrock Rovers side should be the strongest party at Drogheda United, as the away team hold a 23 point edge from their 17 league fixtures this season.
- Drogheda United have the fewest clean sheets (2) in Premier Division
- Shamrock Rovers have the most scored goals (31) 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.
Drogheda United form and stats
The overall Premier Division results playing at home this season for Drogheda United are 3-2-3 (wins-draws-losses). When Drogheda United hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Derry City and Dundalk), they have won 1 of 2 matches!
Drogheda's last game was hosting Finn Harps (placed 9th) and winning 3-1.
Heartbreak before that as Drogheda United lost 0-1 at Shelbourne's place.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Drogheda United as they are travelling to their away game against Bohemians in the Premier Division. That match is four days after this one.
Drogheda are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 10 goals in 8 games. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 14 goals have been conceded.
Shamrock Rovers form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Premier Division travels is 4 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats. In general it has been a productive period now for Shamrock Rovers as they haven't lost any of their last 13 games.
The Shamrock goalkeeper Alan Mannus is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 188 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
It's the second away game in a row for Shamrock Rovers, but there's smiles all around after the 3-0 victory versus UCD (placed 10th) last time out. It was a convincing performance from Shamrock Rovers when UCD were beaten. The team "killed" the match in the first half leading 3-0 and the second half was comfortable. Gaffney, Cotter and Mândroiu scored their goals.
That result followed a home victory 1-0 versus Derry City.Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with Shamrock given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed 6 matches with 6 wins as expected, 0 draws and 0 surprise home wins. The favourites won 3 of these games by at least two goals.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Shelbourne in just four days.
Shamrock Rovers has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 13 goals from 8 games. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. It's not easy to score on Shamrock as they have only conceded 6 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
The former H2H match ended Shamrock Rovers - Drogheda United 3-1, played this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Drogheda two wins, one draw and Shamrock Rovers seven victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  D. Mandroiu 7 goals |  G. Burke 7 goals | A. Lyons 5 goals |
Drogheda United missing players
Shamrock Rovers missing players
| Drogheda United | Shamrock Rovers | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 8 | 17 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 3 | 4 | 12 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 19 | 10 | 2 | Scored | S | 8 | 13 | 31 |
| 30 | 14 | 1 | Conceded | C | 1 | 6 | 11 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 88% | 94% |
| 88% | 88% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 75% | 65% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 62% | 59% |
| 44% | 38% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 12% | 29% |
| 19% | 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 56% | 50% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 50% | 47% |
| 12% | 12% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 38% | 47% |
| 31% | 38% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 12% |
| 4.6 | 5.4 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7.3 | 5.8 | 7.2 |
| 5.1 | 4.4 | 8.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 |
| 2.1 | 1.9 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 2.2 | 1.6 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7.7 | 9.8 | 9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 10.5 | 12 |
| 3.3 | 4.2 | 5.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.3 | 5.5 | 5.6 |
| 36% | 29% | 18% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 30% | 33% |
| 11.8 | 12 | 15.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 3 | 6.1 | 5.3 |
| 4.6 | 4.9 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 1.3 | 2.4 | 2.1 |
- Drogheda United have the fewest clean sheets (2) in Premier Division
- Drogheda United have the most points from losing position (6) in Premier Division
- Drogheda United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Shamrock Rovers have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Shamrock Rovers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Shamrock Rovers have the fewest conceded goals (11) in Premier Division
- Shamrock Rovers have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in Premier Division
- Shamrock Rovers have the fewest points from losing position (1) in Premier Division
- Shamrock Rovers have the most scored goals (31) in Premier Division
- Shamrock Rovers have the most scored goals in the first half (16) in Premier Division
- Shamrock Rovers have the the best goal difference (+20) in Premier Division
- Shamrock Rovers have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Shamrock Rovers have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Shamrock Rovers is in the best form (5-1-0) 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 | 17 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 31 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 20 | 39 |
| 2 | Derry City | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 30 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 16 | 32 |
| 3 | Dundalk | 16 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 25 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 28 |
| 4 | St Patrick's | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 21 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 25 |
| 5 | Bohemians | 16 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 23 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 22 |
| 6 | Sligo Rovers | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 22 | 21 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 21 |
| 7 | Shelbourne | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 21 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | -6 | 21 |
| 8 | Drogheda United | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 19 | 30 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 16 | -11 | 16 |
| 9 | Finn Harps | 16 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 28 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 16 | -15 | 10 |
| 10 | UCD | 16 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 35 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 23 | -25 | 8 |
