Dundalk have harvested 5 of their 8 in total here in their own stadium fortress. Will more points be won versus UCD?
- Dundalk have not yet lost a game at home.
- UCD have the fewest scored goals (3) in Premier Division
0 - 1 - 2 with 1-6. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for UCD when playing on artifical turf like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. UCD play their home games on grass so that's why we provide these numbers.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Dundalk form and stats
Dundalk must be fairly happy with 5 points from their first three Premier Division games here at Oriel Park.
Times are rough for the home team, having gone 200 minutes without scoring a league goal. Hoban was the last player to find the net.
In their previous game, the manager O'Donnell led his Dundalk to a defeat away at Drogheda United. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Oriel Park.
In the match before that, Dundalk hosted Shamrock Rovers and drew the game 0-0.Dundalk are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found four matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won one, drew two and lost one.
Dundalk have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Oriel Park with 5 goals in 3 league matches. Dundalk are not conceding a lot of goals here at Oriel Park in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 2 from 3 matches.
UCD form and stats
It's not happening yet for UCD on their Premier Division travels, with zero points from their first 3 away games. Maybe today will be different? The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on Myler, the UCD manager, as the last three away games were defeats.
UCD's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Bohemians that finished 1-1.
A 0-2 defeat away at St Patrick's before that.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where UCD played away with similar odds. This revealed four games. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, zero were draws and the home team won as expected four times.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Derry City in just three days.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting UCD as they have only managed to score 2 times from 3 away games in the league.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: nine - one - zero (Dundalk wins - draws - UCD wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  S. Bradley 4 goals |  P. Hoban 2 goals |  S. Todd 2 goals |
Dundalk missing players
UCD missing players
| Dundalk | UCD | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 8 | 5 | 3 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 3 | 9 | 10 |
| 71% | 67% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 57% | 67% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 43% | 67% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 29% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 17% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 33% | 17% |
| 43% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 33% |
| 43% | 67% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 43% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| 4.6 | 5.7 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 3.7 | 3.2 |
| 4.7 | 5.3 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 11 | 6.7 | 7.7 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0.7 | 1.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9.9 | 10.3 | 8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 3 | 3.7 | 5.5 |
| 4.4 | 5.7 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 1.7 | 2.3 |
| 26% | 29% | 60% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 40% | 21% |
| 10.4 | 12.3 | 11 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15 | 16 | 12.7 |
| 4.1 | 4.3 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 8 | 6 | 4 |
- All of UCD's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Dundalk have not yet lost a game at home.
- Dundalk have scored more than double the goals of UCD.
- Dundalk have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- UCD have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- UCD have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- UCD have lost all their away matches so far.
- UCD have the fewest scored goals (3) in Premier Division
- UCD have the most conceded goals (9) away in Premier Division
- UCD have the most conceded goals in the first half (7) in Premier Division
- UCD have the the worst goal difference (-7) away in Premier Division
- UCD have the the worst goal difference (-7) in Premier Division
- UCD is in the worst form (0-3-3)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Derry City | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 |
| 2 | Sligo Rovers | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 12 |
| 3 | St Patrick's | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 12 |
| 4 | Shamrock Rovers | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 |
| 5 | Dundalk | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| 6 | Bohemians | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 7 | Shelbourne | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | -5 | 6 |
| 8 | Drogheda United | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -6 | 6 |
| 9 | Finn Harps | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -4 | 5 |
| 10 | UCD | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | -7 | 3 |
