📏 Form Guide

St. Patrick's Athletic

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St. Patrick's Athletic are hoping to win again after their last result, a 4-1 Premier Division triumph over Drogheda United.

In that match, St. Patrick's Athletic had 66% possession and 24 shots on goal with 8 on target. For St. Patrick's Athletic, goals were scored by Ryan Edmondson (53'), Aidan Keena (65'), Kian Leavy (68') and Romal Palmer (82'). For their opponents, Drogheda United had 5 shots on goal with 3 on target. Thomas Oluwa (6') scored for Drogheda United.

Over their prior 6 fixtures, Stephen Kenny's St. Patrick's Athletic have celebrated scoring 12 times resulting in an average number of goals per match equal to 2.

Analysis of their past results shows that St. Patrick's Athletic:

• haven't won against Derry City in their last 3 league matches.
• are unbeaten in their previous 9 league matches at home. Visiting teams have certainly not had an easy time of it here.

Derry City

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Following on from being defeated in their last game at the hands of Shelbourne in Premier Division action, Derry City and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that game, Derry City managed 57% possession and 17 attempts at goal with 4 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Derry City was Henry Rylah (10'). Shelbourne had 7 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Jack Henry-Francis (8') and Daniel Kelly (34') scored for Shelbourne.

The stats don’t lie, and Derry City have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, seeing opposing sides hit 9 goals overall. In defence, Derry City have clearly had some problems.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A look at their most recent head-to-head clashes dating back to 21/07/2024 shows that St. Patrick's Athletic have won 2 of these and Derry City 3, with the number of drawn games being 1.

In all, 12 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 5 of them for Saints and 7 netted by The Candystripes. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.

The previous league encounter between the two was Premier Division match day 29 on 29/08/2025 which ended up with the score at Derry City 2-2 St. Patrick's Athletic.

In that match, Derry City had 59% possession and 13 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. The scorer was Alex Bannon (74', 85').

On the other side, St. Patrick's Athletic had 7 shots on goal with 4 on target. Mason Melia (40') and Chris Forrester (63') scored.

The match was refereed by Marc Lynch.

🗞️ Team News: St. Patrick's Athletic

We think that Saints should kick off with a 4-4-2 system for the game, handing starts to Joseph Anang, James Brown, Sean Hoare, Joe Redmond, Luke Turner, Kian Leavy, Darragh Nugent, Barry Baggley, Jason McClelland, Ryan Edmondson and Romal Palmer.

ℹ️ Team News: Derry City

We believe The Candystripes appear most likely to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 lineup using Eddie Beach, Barry Cotter, Alex Bannon, Jamie Stott, Patrick McClean, James McClean, Adam O'Reilly, Henry Rylah, Michael Duffy, Brandon Fleming and Dipo Akinyemi.

💡 Prediction

In our opinion, Derry City and St. Patrick's Athletic may well end up cancelling each other out here.

We’ll see, but this looks like it could end up all-square. We’re therefore anticipating a close game with a score draw at full-time.

Andre Moura, 08:06 16/03/2026