In a weekend match on Friday Feb 25th, in week 2, Sligo Rovers and St Patrick’s will play a match in Dublin in a Premier Division match. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 5 degrees, so hopefuly the match makes up for the weather. St Patrick’s sits at 2nd place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 3-0 shutout win against Shelbourne. Darragh Burns struck first for St Patrick’s in the 19th minute, then Eoin Doyle added another in the 57th minute In the end, Shelbourne was frustrated by St Patrick’s’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. St Patrick’s ended the match with the shutout victory. St Patrick’s is looking for direction having earned 12 points in their last 10 matches, while sligo Rovers has not played yet this season.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season. Last season Sligo Rovers won the head to head battle with 2 wins.
Sligo Rovers’s most prolific scorer has been Kenny. The Irish attacker has netted three goals over the last five matches. Both Billy King and Jason McClelland have been the hottest scorers for St Patrick’s in the last five each having scored 2 goals.