Struggling St Patrick's will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Dundalk in the upcoming league round. It’s 7th vs 3rd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
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.
Dundalk play their home games on artifical turf, while this game is played on grass. Recent stats for Dundalk when playing on grass are 21 wins, 4 draws and 12 defeats from 37 matches. They have scored 56 goals and conceded 32 times in these games.
St Patrick's form and stats
The story so far in the Premier Division for St Patrick's, who have the fewest conceded goals (3) at home in Premier Division, at their home stadium (Richmond Park) is 3 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Cork City and winning 2-1.
There will be little rest for Patrick's after this match as they are travelling to Shamrock Rovers for a Premier Division game in only three days.
St Patrick's aren't scoring a lot here at Richmond Park in the league, with only 5 goals from 7 games. As for guarding their own goal, Patrick's have only let in 3 goals at home.
Dundalk form and stats
Playing away, Dundalk have won 4 games, drawn 0 and suffered 4 defeats in the Premier Division this season.
Dundalk are travelling again after losing away to Arsenal in their previous match (0-3). Prior to that match, the Dundalk manager S. Keegan faced defeat when travelling to Waterford United and losing 0-1.
The schedule is very tough for Dundalk now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Europa League game at Rapid Wien is waiting in only four days.
Dundalk has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 14 goals from 8 games. As opposed to that, Dundalk have seen the ball go into their own net 11 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Dundalk - Patrick's 1-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's one St Patrick's victory, three draws and six Dundalk wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.St Patrick's missing players
Dundalk missing players
| St Patrick's | Dundalk | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 3 | 8 | 17 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 4 | 8 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 12 | 5 | 0 | Scored | S | 8 | 14 | 27 |
| 14 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 11 | 22 |
| 80% | 71% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 88% |
| 60% | 43% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 88% | 76% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 75% | 65% |
| 7% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 38% | 41% |
| 7% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | 18% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 62% | 53% |
| 47% | 71% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 25% | 35% |
| 53% | 57% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 12% | 24% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.7 | 2.9 | 4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.9 | 1.4 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 127 | 61 | 1 | Total Shots | T S | 31 | 70 | 161 |
| 42 | 22 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 16 | 31 | 61 |
| 29% | 23% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 45% | 39% |
- Dundalk has the most conceded goals in the first half (14) in Premier Division
- Dundalk have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Dundalk have scored more than double the goals of St Patrick's.
- Dundalk haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- St Patrick's has the fewest conceded goals (3) at home in Premier Division
- St Patrick's has the fewest scored goals in the second half (3) in Premier Division
- St Patrick's has the most clean sheets (5) at home 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 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 40 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 6 | 30 | 38 |
| 2 | Bohemians | 17 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 21 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 34 |
| 3 | Dundalk | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 27 | 22 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 28 |
| 4 | Waterford United | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 21 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | -4 | 24 |
| 5 | Sligo Rovers | 17 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 17 | 23 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 12 | -6 | 22 |
| 6 | Derry City | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 19 |
| 7 | St Patrick's | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 11 | -2 | 19 |
| 8 | Shelbourne | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 11 | -7 | 19 |
| 9 | Finn Harps | 16 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 13 | -8 | 17 |
| 10 | Cork City | 17 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 29 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 20 | -20 | 10 |