Drogheda United vs Sligo Rovers — Tips & Analysis

Drogheda United -0.5: Sligo cannot score, and that is the main reason to back the home side. They have managed one goal in their last five games, not counting a cup tie against a junior side. That run includes 0-3 losses to Bohemians and Waterford. On the road Sligo are 2W-2D-7L, scoring under a goal a game and letting in almost 2. A team creating that little rarely wins away from home. Drogheda are not much better, but they do not need to be. They score more than a goal a game and they have something to protect. Drogheda sit 9th on 28 points in the relegation play off place, with Sligo 10th on 23 and both having played 29. That means the hosts treat this like a final and the visitors have to come out and chase it. Games between these two stay tight. The last five finished 2-2, 1-0, 1-2, 1-1 and 1-0, so three of the five had two goals or fewer. A 1-0 home win is the likeliest score, one goal deciding a nervous night. The concern is Drogheda's own home form. They have lost three of their last four at Weavers Park, to Dundalk, St Patrick's and Galway, and they have tied six of their last nineteen games. This is a nervy one, but the visitors carry so little threat that we stay with Drogheda.