📊 Form Guide

St. Patrick's Athletic

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St. Patrick's Athletic, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 4-1 Premier Division triumph versus Drogheda United.

In that match, St. Patrick's Athletic had 66% possession and 24 attempts on goal with 8 of them on target. For St. Patrick's Athletic, the scorers were Ryan Edmondson (53'), Aidan Keena (65'), Kian Leavy (68') and Romal Palmer (82'). Drogheda United got 5 shots at 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 will be aiming to make amends here.

In that game, Derry City had 57% possession and 17 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer for Derry City was Henry Rylah (10'). Shelbourne had 7 shots 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 review of their most recent head to head clashes dating back to 21/07/2024 shows us that St. Patrick's Athletic have won 2 of these games and Derry City 3, with the tally of drawn results standing at 1.

12 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 5 of them from Saints and 7 belonging to The Candystripes. That’s an average goals per game of 2.

The last league encounter featuring the two was Premier Division match day 29 on 29/08/2025 when it finished Derry City 2-2 St. Patrick's Athletic.

That day, Derry City managed 59% possession and 13 shots on goal with 6 on target. Their only player to score was Alex Bannon (74', 85').

At the other end, St. Patrick's Athletic had 7 attempts 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

It looks as if Saints look set to opt for a 4-4-2 formation for this game, beginning the first half with Joseph Anang, James Brown, Joe Redmond, Sean Hoare, Luke Turner, Aidan Keena, Darragh Nugent, Barry Baggley, Jason McClelland, Ryan Edmondson and Romal Palmer.

ℹ️ Team News: Derry City

We are inclined to think that The Candystripes seem likely to play in a 4-2-3-1 formation, going with Eddie Beach, Barry Cotter, Alex Bannon, Jamie Stott, Patrick McClean, James Olayinka, James McClean, Darragh Markey, 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, 19:04 16/03/2026