The league table in Premier Division tells a story about these teams so far, with Dundalk leading Finn Harps by 10 points. Match preview to follow:
Dundalk have less rest than Finn Harps in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Europa League game only three days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus KI, was also a home game here at Oriel Park. The away team is better rested.
Finn Harps play their home games on grass, while this game is played on artifical turf. Recent stats for Finn Harps when playing on artifical turf are 0 wins, 1 draw and 6 defeats from seven matches. They have scored 2 goals and conceded 21 times in these games.
Dundalk form and stats
14 points is a decent return from 7 Premier Division games here at Oriel Park for Dundalk. The data says 4 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss.
Ahead of that match, Dundalk lost 0-4 at home to Shamrock Rovers.
Dundalk have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Oriel Park with 13 goals in 7 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Dundalk defense is not exactly impregnable. 11 goals conceded from 7 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Finn Harps form and stats
There's been little loot from Finn Harps's travels as they have only collected 5 points from 7 away games in the Premier Division. Finn Harps, who have the fewest clean sheets (2) in Premier Division, only have 1 win to counter their 4 defeats and 2 draws. The last three matches for Finn Harps have all ended in a draw.
Finn Harps delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Cork City (placed 10th) in their previous match; a Premier Division game. Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Shelbourne.
The draw against Cork City came from a losing position. The Harps manager O. Horgan brought on R. Cretaro as a substitute and the player scored to make the scores level.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Harps have scored 7 goals in 7 league games away. Harps have conceded 13 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting was Finn Harps - Dundalk 0-4, played this season. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: nine - one - zero (Dundalk wins - draws - Finn Harps wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.Dundalk missing players
Finn Harps missing players
| Dundalk | Finn Harps | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 7 | 3 | Played | P | 1 | 7 | 13 |
| 6 | 4 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 23 | 13 | 7 | Scored | S | 1 | 7 | 9 |
| 20 | 11 | 2 | Conceded | C | 3 | 13 | 20 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 92% | 86% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 86% | 62% |
| 83% | 71% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 43% | 31% |
| 58% | 57% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 43% | 31% |
| 25% | 29% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | 8% |
| 67% | 57% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 71% | 46% |
| 25% | 29% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 15% |
| 8% | 14% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 29% | 46% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.6 | 0.7 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 3 | 2.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 131 | 81 | 33 | Total Shots | T S | 6 | 38 | 78 |
| 47 | 28 | 14 | Shots on Target | S O | 3 | 19 | 32 |
| 43% | 36% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 37% | 28% |
- Dundalk has the fewest matches under the total-line (2) in Premier Division
- Dundalk has the most conceded goals (11) at home in Premier Division
- Dundalk has the most conceded goals in the first half (13) in Premier Division
- Dundalk have scored more than double the goals of Finn Harps.
- Dundalk haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Finn Harps has the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premier Division
- Finn Harps has the fewest clean sheets (2) in Premier Division
- Finn Harps has the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Premier Division
- Finn Harps have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Finn Harps have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Finn Harps have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Finn Harps haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 30 |
| 3 | Dundalk | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 20 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 20 |
| 4 | Waterford United | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 12 | -4 | 20 |
| 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 | Sligo Rovers | 15 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 15 | 21 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 11 | -6 | 19 |
| 7 | Derry City | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 16 |
| 8 | Shelbourne | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -7 | 13 |
| 9 | Finn Harps | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -11 | 10 |
| 10 | Cork City | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 15 | -14 | 9 |