The league table in Premier Division tells a story about these teams so far, with St Patrick's leading Longford Town by 36 points. Match preview to follow:
- St Patrick's have the most scored goals (43) in Premier Division
- Longford Town have the fewest scored goals (16) in Premier Division
Both contenders have had plenty of rest since their last exertion in an official match. Let's wish for an animated match!
St Patrick's form and stats
10-0-2 is the performance here at Richmond Park so far in the Premier Division, giving St Patrick's a total of 30 from their 12 games here. Outstanding results! After failing to beat Dundalk here at Richmond Park, Patrick's has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with five wins in a row.
St Patrick's shared the glory with Cork City (after extra-time, 1-4 on penalties) in their last match, an away game that ended all square 1-1.
Heartbreak before that as St Patrick's lost 1-3 at Finn Harps's place.The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for St Patrick's home games with this odds we find five games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in four wins, one draw and zero defeats. Looking at the victories, one match were won by at least two goals.
A decent goal production from St Patrick's in their home games so far, with 22 goals from 12 league matches. Patrick's have only conceded 8 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Longford Town form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Longford Town so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 0-5-7 (win-draw-lose). Travelling has not been lucrative for the away team as they have returned home without a win in twelve away games in a row.
Longford lost away at UCD (1-2) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick.
A 1-4 defeat away at Waterford United before that.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Longford Town played away with similar odds. This revealed four games. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, two were draws and the home team won as expected two times.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Longford Town as they have only managed to score 9 times from 12 away games in the league. Longford struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 23 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
The duelists have battled earlier this season: Longford Town - Patrick's 1-3. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's seven St Patrick's victories, two draws and one Longford Town win. Over/under statistics; eight of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Smith 8 goals |  C. Forrester 7 goals | R. Coughlin 7 goals |
St Patrick's missing players
Longford Town missing players
| St Patrick's | Longford Town | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 25 | 12 | 4 | Played | P | 3 | 12 | 25 |
| 14 | 10 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 5 | 8 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 3 | 7 | 16 |
| 43 | 22 | 7 | Scored | S | 1 | 9 | 16 |
| 28 | 8 | 4 | Conceded | C | 5 | 23 | 45 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 96% |
| 88% | 83% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 83% | 76% |
| 52% | 50% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 42% | 40% |
| 32% | 8% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 24% |
| 12% | 8% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 17% | 8% |
| 64% | 42% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 67% | 48% |
| 32% | 50% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 4% | 8% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 33% | 48% |
| 5.9 | 5.3 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 2.9 | 3.4 |
| 4 | 3.3 | 1.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 9 | 6 | 6.2 |
| 2 | 2.1 | 0.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.7 | 1.8 | 1.7 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | 10.2 | 13.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5.7 | 6 | 6.1 |
| 3.7 | 3.8 | 4.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.7 | 2.4 | 2.2 |
| 47% | 48% | 41% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 31% | 30% |
- Longford Town have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Longford Town have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Longford Town have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Longford Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Longford Town have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premier Division
- Longford Town have the fewest clean sheets (2) in Premier Division
- Longford Town have the fewest points (5) away in Premier Division
- Longford Town have the fewest scored goals (16) in Premier Division
- Longford Town have the fewest scored goals in the first half (8) in Premier Division
- Longford Town have the fewest scored goals in the second half (8) in Premier Division
- Longford Town have the most conceded goals (23) away in Premier Division
- Longford Town have the most conceded goals (45) in Premier Division
- Longford Town have the most conceded goals in the second half (26) in Premier Division
- Longford Town have the most dropped points from leading position (13) in Premier Division
- Longford Town have the the worst goal difference (-14) away in Premier Division
- Longford Town have the the worst goal difference (-29) in Premier Division
- Longford Town have yet to win a game away.
- Longford Town haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Longford Town is in the worst form (0-2-4)
- St Patrick's have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- St Patrick's have scored more than double the goals of Longford Town.
- St Patrick's have the fewest conceded goals (8) at home in Premier Division
- St Patrick's have the fewest matches under the total-line (6) in Premier Division
- St Patrick's have the most clean sheets (6) at home in Premier Division
- St Patrick's have the most matches over the total-line (15) in Premier Division
- St Patrick's have the most points (30) at home in Premier Division
- St Patrick's have the most scored goals (43) in Premier Division
- St Patrick's have the most scored goals in the second half (29) 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 | Shamrock Rovers | 23 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 39 | 18 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 8 | 21 | 50 |
| 2 | St Patrick's | 25 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 43 | 28 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 8 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 21 | 20 | 15 | 47 |
| 3 | Sligo Rovers | 23 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 28 | 18 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 38 |
| 4 | Derry City | 25 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 31 | 29 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 17 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 37 |
| 5 | Bohemians | 22 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 35 | 24 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 27 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 34 |
| 6 | Drogheda United | 25 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 37 | 32 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 21 | 19 | 5 | 33 |
| 7 | Finn Harps | 24 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 24 | 32 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 18 | -8 | 29 |
| 8 | Waterford United | 25 | 9 | 1 | 15 | 23 | 43 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 22 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 12 | 21 | -20 | 28 |
| 9 | Dundalk | 23 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 27 | 34 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 16 | -7 | 27 |
| 10 | Longford Town | 25 | 1 | 8 | 16 | 16 | 45 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 22 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 23 | -29 | 11 |