St Patrick's - Cork City: Premier Division basement occupants hungry for points and glory. Check out all the relevant stats and tables before the match!
- St Patrick's have the most points (10) at home in Premier Division
- Cork City have the most conceded goals in the second half (11) in Premier Division
It's no vacation for neither St Patrick's nor Cork 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.
St Patrick's form and stats
3 victories, 1 draw and 1 defeat. That’s what St Patrick's have to build on here at Richmond Park in the Premier Division. When St Patrick's hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like UCD, Shelbourne and St Patrick's), they have won 2 of 2 matches! Two home wins in a row for Patrick's bring valid hopes of a third.
St Patrick's are confident in defense, having played 216 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.
St Patrick's's last game was hosting Cork City (placed 9th) and winning 4-0. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Patrick's played a great game against Cork City and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one. The hosts have an in-form goalscorer in Mulraney, having scored in three consecutive games.
Before that game, the 3-0 home victory against UCD.St Patrick's have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Richmond Park with 9 goals in 5 league matches. From these home matches, Patrick's have conceded only 3 goals.
Cork City form and stats
0 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of Cork City playing as the away team in the Premier Division this season.
Cork City play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-4 to St Patrick's (placed 7th). As you can see from the result above, the defeat against St Patrick's was particularly ugly (0-4). The humiliation is still top of mind.
Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs Drogheda United.Looking at the earlier recent performances of Cork City when being an outsider away as they are today, we find 6 matches with the visitors losing 2 times, drawing 3 and winning 1 game.
Cork City has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 6 goals from 4 games.
Head 2 Head
Patrick's have not lost in the last 9 matches (5-4-0) against Cork City.The two sides played each other earlier this season: St Patrick's - Cork City 4-0.
Top Goalscorers
  R. Keating 5 goals |   C. Forrester 3 goals |  J. Mulraney 3 goals |
St Patrick's missing players
Cork City missing players
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| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 5 | 2 | Played | P | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 3 | 3 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 12 | 9 | 4 | Scored | S | 0 | 6 | 12 |
| 12 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 12 | 17 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 88% | 80% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 62% | 40% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 75% | 62% |
| 38% | 20% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 75% | 50% |
| 12% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 25% | 12% |
| 38% | 20% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 38% | 60% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 25% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 50% | 38% |
| 4.6 | 4.8 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 3.2 | 4.1 |
| 5.5 | 5.6 | 7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 9 | 6.5 |
| 2.6 | 2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.8 | 2.1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11.9 | 12.4 | 15.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 10.5 | 10.8 |
| 4.4 | 5 | 7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 3.8 | 3.9 |
| 34% | 36% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 40% | 39% |
| 11.9 | 10 | 11.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 18.2 | 12.6 |
| 3.5 | 2.8 | 2.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 4.8 | 4 |
- All of Cork City's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Cork City have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Cork City have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Cork City have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Cork City have the most conceded goals (12) away in Premier Division
- Cork City have the most conceded goals in the second half (11) in Premier Division
- Cork City have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Cork City have yet to win a game away.
- Cork City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- St Patrick's have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- St Patrick's have the most points (10) at home in Premier Division
- St Patrick's have the the best goal difference (+6) at home in Premier Division
- St Patrick's haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Bohemians | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 18 |
| 2 | Derry City | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 15 |
| 3 | Sligo Rovers | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 12 |
| 4 | Drogheda United | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 12 |
| 5 | Shamrock Rovers | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | Dundalk | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 |
| 7 | St Patrick's | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 11 |
| 8 | Shelbourne | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 9 | Cork City | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 12 | -5 | 6 |
| 10 | UCD | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 | -14 | 2 |
