📏 Form Guide

St. Patrick's Athletic

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St. Patrick's Athletic head into this match coming off the back of a 1-1 Premier Division draw vs Sligo Rovers.

In that game, St. Patrick's Athletic had 60% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for St. Patrick's Athletic was Kian Leavy (6'). Sligo Rovers had 7 shots on goal with 1 on target. Archie Meekison (41') scored for Sligo Rovers.

It has not been often in recent times where St. Patrick's Athletic haven’t conceded. In fact, St. Patrick's Athletic have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 6 of their previous 6 games, letting in 8 goals in the process.

Heading into this fixture, St. Patrick's Athletic have not lost a league tie with Waterford in their previous 6 games.

Waterford

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Previously, Waterford drew 3-3 in the Premier Division tie with Dundalk.

In that match, Waterford had 44% possession and 17 shots at goal with 7 on target. For Waterford, the goals were scored by Tom Lonergan (40'), Pádraig Amond (60') and John Mahon (88'). At the other end, Dundalk had 26 shots at goal with 6 on target. Daryl Horgan (14', 83') and Gbemi Arubi (35') scored for Dundalk.

The stats don’t lie, and Waterford have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 8 goals in total. Defensively, Waterford have clearly had some problems. We will just have to see whether or not that trend can be sustained in this game.

Their previous form shows that Waterford:

• haven't beaten St. Patrick's Athletic when having played them away from home in the previous 6 matches in the league. Not good.
• haven't been beaten by St. Patrick's Athletic in games played away from home for the previous 2 league matches.
• have not won away from home in their last 12 league matches. It's not a good run at all.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A study of their past head to head meetings stretching back to 20/09/2024 tells us that these encounters have ended in disappointment for Waterford. They’ve not managed to register any wins whatsoever whereas St. Patrick's Athletic have remained in the ascendancy, getting wins in 67% of those games played.

16 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 12 for Saints and 4 netted by The Blues. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.67.

The last league match featuring these clubs was Premier Division match day 8 on 20/03/2026 when it ended Waterford 0-2 St. Patrick's Athletic.

On that day, Waterford had 39% possession and 7 shots on goal with 2 on target.

St. Patrick's Athletic had 33 shots at goal with 13 of them on target. Luke Turner (28', 69') scored.

The referee was Neil Doyle.

ℹ️ Team News: St. Patrick's Athletic

Romal Palmer (Calf injury), Aidan Keena (Thigh problems), Simon Power (Knee injury) and Danny Rogers (Knee surgery) are not available for St. Patrick's Athletic boss Stephen Kenny.

In our view, Saints may well use the 4-4-2 formation for the game and select Joseph Anang, James Brown, Joe Redmond, Sean Hoare, Luke Turner, Kian Leavy, Jamie Lennon, Barry Baggley, Anto Breslin, Ryan Edmondson and Chris Forrester.

🗞️ Team News: Waterford

Thanks to a mainly full-strength group of players, there is just the sole fitness worry for the Waterford manager Brian Murphy to be concerned with. Finlay Armstrong (unknown injury) won’t be in action.

From our viewpoint, The Blues seem most likely to utilise a 5-3-2 lineup, giving starts to Arlo Doherty, Ronan Mansfield, Hayden Cann, John Mahon, Kevin Long, Benny Couto, Evan McLaughlin, Dean McMenamy, Conan Noonan, Tommy Lonergan and Padraig Amond.

🔮 Prediction

We’re of the opinion that St. Patrick's Athletic will probably dominate possession and create several successful chances.

In contrast, Waterford will not find it easy to break down their defence but we can see them hitting back at some stage here.

Accordingly, we see a comfortable 3-1 winning margin for St. Patrick's Athletic at the end of the match.

Victor Martins, 07:07 06/05/2026