📏 Form Guide

St. Patrick's Athletic

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St. Patrick's Athletic fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being the 4-1 Premier Division victory against Waterford.

In that match, St. Patrick's Athletic managed 69% possession and 23 shots on goal with 10 on target. For St. Patrick's Athletic, the goals were scored by Chris Forrester (45'), Zachary Elbouzedi (57', 60') and Ryan Edmondson (77'). For their opponents, Waterford had 11 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. John Mahon (5') was the scorer for Waterford.

It’s been seldom in recent times that St. Patrick's Athletic have kept a clean sheet. In fact, St. Patrick's Athletic have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, letting in 7 goals in the process. We shall soon find out whether or not that trend will end up being continued on in this game.

Their previous form shows that St. Patrick's Athletic:

• haven't been beaten in the league by Shelbourne in their last 2 games.
• are unbeaten in their last 2 home league matches.

Shelbourne

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Last time out, Shelbourne drew 0-0 in the Premier Division tie with Sligo Rovers.

In that match, Shelbourne had 68% possession and 28 attempts at goal with 8 on target. Sligo Rovers got 7 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target.

Shelbourne have been a threat going forward in the lead-up to this encounter, scoring 10 goals in their previous 6 matches. While their manager Joey O'Brien will no doubt take that as a positive sign, Shelbourne have had their own issues at the back, also conceding in 5 of those same games.

Their past results show that Shelbourne:

• remain unbeaten by St. Patrick's Athletic in games played away from home for the previous 4 matches in the league. A very good record, indeed.
• are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches away from home.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head meetings going back to 04/04/2025, both clubs have shared the honours with St. Patrick's Athletic winning 2 of those games, Shelbourne 2 and 2 being drawn after 90 minutes of play.

In all, 11 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 6 for Saints and 5 for The Shels. That’s an average goals per game figure of 1.83.

The last league meeting between these clubs was Premier Division match day 5 on 06/03/2026 which ended up with the score at Shelbourne 2-3 St. Patrick's Athletic.

In that match, Shelbourne managed 56% possession and 18 shots on goal with 8 on target. Goals were scored by Harry Wood (72') and John Martin (75').

At the other end, St. Patrick's Athletic had 18 shots at goal with 7 on target. Ryan Edmondson (56', 61') and Max Mata (92') scored.

The referee was Paul Norton.

🗞️ Team News: St. Patrick's Athletic

It seems likely that Saints look set to go for a 4-4-2 formation in the match, utilising Joseph Anang, James Brown, Joe Redmond, Sean Hoare, Luke Turner, Kian Leavy, Darragh Nugent, Barry Baggley, Zak Elbouzedi, Ryan Edmondson and Chris Forrester.

📰 Team News: Shelbourne

We believe The Shels will likely play in a 3-5-2 formation by sending out Wessel Speel, Sam Bone, Patrick Barrett, Kameron Ledwidge, Evan Caffrey, Ali Coote, Jonathan Lunney, Kerr McInroy, Harry Wood, John Martin and Will Jarvis.

💭 Prediction

In our opinion, Shelbourne will need things to go their way to register a score against this St. Patrick's Athletic lineup who we reckon should be able to grind out a win.

We therefore fancy a very competitive encounter with a 1-0 victory for St. Patrick's Athletic at the end of the 90.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes.

Lucas Pereira, 14:06 15/05/2026