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Peter Green - July 27, 2023
Cork City vs Shelbourne Predictions and Free Tips from our expert tipsters when the teams go head-to-head in the Ireland Premier Division on Friday, 28 July 2023.
Cork City follows an unimpressive form for quite some time now. Their consistent winless recording affected the positioning on the table as the team dropped into second from the bottom of the standings.
They will have a decent test on Friday as the team faces Shelbourne sitting at 6th in the standings. Going on, Shelbourne have recorded a decent pick-up in form of late by bagging four unbeaten outcomes from the last five league matches.
Shelbourne was unbeaten in 9 of the last 10 head to head meetings against Cork City and won seven of those. Three of the last four clashes had goals under 2.5 ft.
Shelbourne is having a five-match unbeaten streak against Cork City at this stadium.
Cork City had an impressive form at home before recording winless outcomes in the past two consecutive matches. On the other side, Shelbourne have lost just once on the road in the last 9 matches.
Since Shelbourne have been the dominant force in the recent history of this match-up, we expect a win for them on Friday.
Shelbourne have the least number of over 2.5 goal involvements this season. Meanwhile, three of the last four matches of Cork City were low-scoring too. In that case, we don’t expect this match to have plenty of goals.
Shelbourne have a strong defensive line on the road. They have leaked just 7 goals in 11 away games this season. Moreover, Shelbourne won three of the last five clashes at this stadium sealing a clean sheet. Thus, we don’t expect a both teams scoring match-up here.
Shelbourne was unbeaten in 8 of the past 9 road trips. On top of that they have a strong h2h form against Cork City at this stadium.
For all the above reasons, we like to place Shelbourne to win as the main betting tip. For the second tip, we like to place the under 2.5 goals tip at 1.67 odds.
