UCD will hope that their home support is enough to get at least a draw from this strenuous battle, versus high-powered Dundalk.
- UCD have the fewest scored goals (7) in Premier Division
- Dundalk have the fewest scored goals (3) away in Premier Division
This stadium has grass, which is not Dundalk's usual surface at their own field. When appearing on grass Dundalk have performed like this: Played 38 matches with the outcome 10 wins, 14 draws and 14 defeats with the goal difference 60-56 (scored/conceded).
Both sides have had plenty of rest since their last competitive action. Let's have faith in that this will be an enthusiastic match!
UCD form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Premier Division this season. UCD have only managed 0 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses from their games here at UCD Bowl. All in all it has been a very rough period for UCD who hasn’t won a league-game in their last 13 attempts. Their previous win was against Bray Wanderers, 167 days ago.
UCD faced defeat in their previous match, away at Bohemians (0-3).
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Derry City (1-7).No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where UCD had similar winning odds as today, and found eight games. In these, the hosts won two, drew zero and lost six. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that UCD lost four similar games by at least two goals.
UCD has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: 2 goals from 6 games. 7 goals have been conceded.
Dundalk form and stats
There's been little loot from Dundalk's travels as they have only collected 4 points from 6 away games in the Premier Division. Dundalk only have 0 wins to counter their 2 defeats and 4 draws.
Impressive finishing secured the home win 4-1 against Drogheda United in their previous game.
A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Shelbourne.There's been a serious shortage of goals from Dundalk's away games in the league this season with only 3 goals from 6 matches. It's not easy to score on Dundalk as they have only conceded 5 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
The teams have faced each other before in this season, with the final score Dundalk - UCD 2-0 registered in the official records. Data for the previous ten meetings featuring these two squads are: zero wins for UCD, one draw and nine wins for Dundalk. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.Top Goalscorers
  P. Hoban 5 goals |  S. Bradley 4 goals | D. Kelly 3 goals |
UCD missing players
Dundalk missing players
| UCD | Dundalk | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 9 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 3 | 18 |
| 30 | 7 | 2 | Conceded | C | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 85% | 67% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 67% | 77% |
| 85% | 67% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 33% | 62% |
| 46% | 17% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 17% | 46% |
| 23% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 17% | 23% |
| 15% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 38% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 33% | 46% |
| 15% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 38% |
| 62% | 67% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 67% | 38% |
| 3.2 | 3.3 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 3.7 | 4.6 |
| 8 | 8.8 | 11 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 4.7 | 4.2 |
| 1.6 | 1.8 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 2.5 | 2.1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4.8 | 5.8 | 2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.5 | 8.2 | 10.1 |
| 1.9 | 2 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.2 | 4.6 |
| 28% | 17% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 17% | 16% | 30% |
| 13 | 10.7 | 16 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9 | 10 | 9.6 |
| 5.3 | 3.8 | 9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 4 | 3.6 |
- Dundalk have scored more than double the goals of UCD.
- Dundalk have the fewest scored goals (3) away in Premier Division
- Dundalk have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Dundalk have yet to win a game 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 the fewest scored goals (2) at home in Premier Division
- UCD have the fewest scored goals (7) in Premier Division
- UCD have the fewest scored goals in the first half (0) in Premier Division
- UCD have the most conceded goals (30) in Premier Division
- UCD have the most conceded goals in the first half (15) in Premier Division
- UCD have the most conceded goals in the second half (15) in Premier Division
- UCD have the most matches under the total-line (7) in Premier Division
- UCD have the the worst goal difference (-23) in Premier Division
- UCD have yet to win a game.
- UCD is in the worst form (0-1-5)
| 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 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 28 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 18 | 30 |
| 2 | Shamrock Rovers | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 12 | 27 |
| 3 | Dundalk | 13 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 18 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 21 |
| 4 | Sligo Rovers | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 20 |
| 5 | St Patrick's | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 20 |
| 6 | Bohemians | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 19 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 18 |
| 7 | Drogheda United | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 15 | -8 | 13 |
| 8 | Shelbourne | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 19 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | -9 | 12 |
| 9 | Finn Harps | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -10 | 10 |
| 10 | UCD | 13 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 30 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 23 | -23 | 4 |
