St Patrick's will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 5 points behind Derry City.
It's no vacation for neither St Patrick's nor Derry City as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Derry City play their home games on artificial turf, while this game is played on grass. Recent stats for Derry City when playing on grass are 13 wins, 6 draws and 18 defeats from 37 matches. They have scored 40 goals and conceded 67 times in these games.
St Patrick's form and stats
St Patrick's, who have the fewest scored goals (5) in Premier Division, have collected 7 points from their home games so far after 2-1-1.St Patrick's manager H. Kenny and his team return home after a 1-1 draw away versus Cork City in the Premier Division. Ahead of that match, St Patrick's won a home game hosting Dundalk (1-0).
The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does St Patrick's handle that role? We have found one game in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The win/draw/lost stats in these games are W0-D1-L0.
The match schedule is unforgiving for St Patrick's as they have a new game in only four days, a Premier Division match thankfully also at home. Sligo Rovers are visiting.
St Patrick's has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches: 2 goals from 4 games. As for guarding their own goal, St Patrick's have only let in 1 goal at home.
Derry City form and stats
Playing away, Derry City have won 2 games, drawn 2 and suffered 1 defeat so far this season. The fact that Derry City have won four matches in a row should scare the hosts and makes this contest more interesting. Derry City love their trips these days, as their two previous away games have resulted in victories.Derry City play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-0 victory visiting UCD. Preceding that game was the away victory against Finn Harps with the score of 3-2.
Derry City are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 14 wins, 9 draws and 21 defeats. From a total of 44 matches.
A quick return to home after this game, as Derry City are hosting Shamrock Rovers in the Premier Division only four days away.
Derry City find the net in their away games, although not all the time. 6 goals from 5 away fixtures. As opposed to that, Derry City have seen the ball go into their own net 5 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: 3 - 3 - 4 (St Patrick's wins - draws - Derry City wins).St Patrick's missing players
Derry City missing players
| St Patrick's | Derry City | |||
| Total | Home | Statistic | Away | Total |
| 9 | 4 | Played | 5 | 9 |
| 5 | 2 | Scored | 6 | 14 |
| 6 | 1 | Conceded | 5 | 9 |
| 89% | 75% | Over 0.5 | 80% | 89% |
| 33% | 0% | Over 1.5 | 80% | 89% |
| 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | 20% | 33% |
| 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | 20% | 22% |
| 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | 20% | 22% |
| 22% | 0% | Both teams to score | 40% | 33% |
| 44% | 75% | Clean Sheet | 40% | 44% |
| 44% | 50% | Failed To Score | 40% | 33% |
| 0 | 0 | Corners For (avg) | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | Corners Against (avg) | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | Yellow Cards (avg) | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | Red Cards (avg) | 0 | 0 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | D | P |
| 1 | Shamrock Rovers | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 15 | 28 |
| 2 | Bohemians | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 20 |
| 3 | Derry City | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 17 |
| 4 | Dundalk | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 15 |
| 5 | St Patrick's | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -1 | 12 |
| 6 | Cork City | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | -2 | 11 |
| 7 | Waterford United | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -2 | 10 |
| 8 | Sligo Rovers | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -6 | 10 |
| 9 | UCD | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | -5 | 7 |
| 10 | Finn Harps | 11 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 23 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 11 | -16 | 2 |
