📊 Form Guide

Galway United

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Galway United won’t want a repeat of their last result here following the 1-0 Premier Division defeat last time out to Bohemian FC.

In that match, Galway United had 30% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. On the other side, Bohemian FC had 12 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Patrick Hickey (87') was the scorer for Bohemian FC.

It has been all too rare in recent times where Galway United have shown defensive steel. In fact, Galway United have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 6 goals along the way.

Pre-game facts show that Galway United:

• are winless against Waterford in their last 3 league matches.
• are undefeated in their previous 2 home league matches.

Waterford

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Since being defeated in their last game at the hands of Dundalk in Premier Division action, Waterford and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, Waterford had 47% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 3 on target. At the other end, Dundalk had 25 attempts on goal with 12 of them on target. Ronan Teahan (30'), Declan McDaid (42'), Daryl Horgan (86') and Eoin Kenny (90', 90') scored for Dundalk.

Looking at their form, and Waterford have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 10 goals overall. Defensively, Waterford just haven’t been too solid at all. However, it remains to be seen if that trend shall be replicated in this upcoming match.

Coming into this contest, Waterford have not won away from home in their last 8 league matches. It's not a good run at all.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their past head to head clashes dating back to 12/07/2024 shows that Galway United have won 3 of these & Waterford 2, with the number of drawn games being 1.

In all, 14 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 7 of them from Tribesman and 7 being from The Blues. The average goals per game has been 2.33.

The previous league fixture featuring these sides was Premier Division match day 36 on 01/11/2025 when it finished Waterford 1-1 Galway United.

In that game, Waterford had 63% possession and 17 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Their only player to score was Pádraig Amond (37').

Galway United had 15 shots on goal with 5 on target. Stephen Walsh (16') scored.

The match was refereed by Paul McLaughlin.

📰 Team News: Galway United

It’s our opinion that Tribesman will probably kick off with a 4-4-1-1 system for this game and select Evan Watts, Al-Amin Kazeem, Killian Brouder, G. Facchineri, Arthur Parker, Jimmy Keohane, Aaron Bolger, David Hurley, Ed McCarthy, Lee Devitt and Francely Lomboto.

ℹ️ Team News: Waterford

We believe The Blues seem likely to begin the game with a 4-4-2 lineup, starting Stephen McMullan, Luke Heeney, Cian Barrett, Hayden Cann, Jesse Dempsey, Jørgen Voilås, Dean McMenamy, Conan Noonan, Ronan Mansfield, Tommy Lonergan and Conor Carty.

💡 Prediction

In our view, Waterford will have to play well to score goals against this Galway United team who should manage to get a goal of their own in a winning performance.

That’s why our selection here is for a 1-0 winning margin for Galway United when the referee blows for full-time.

We’ll see what happens.

Lucas Pereira, 08:06 16/03/2026