Cork City take on the visitors Waterford at “Turners Cross” in the round 21 of the Irish Premier Division. The match will be played in Cork on Friday, June 1st.
Cork City are the defending champion of the Irish elite division. The side confidently won the last season’s Premier Division, having not failed for quite a long time. Astonishing performance at the home turf became a crucial factor of the team’s success in the previous season as Cork City had got 12 triumphs in 16 encounters conducted. The lucky home streak is prolonged in new season as well as “City” not only won all eight tackles played in front of its supporters in this season with 15:1 aggregated score, it also deserved seven clean sheets in them. Thus, superb home statistics allows Cork City to sit currently on the second place in the elite division standings, being just two points behind their major rival Dundalk.
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In their turn, Waterford may boast with great achievements in the first part of the season as at the moment the club settles on the third position in the Premier Division table with 36 points taken. “The Blues” are not likely to drift higher in the standings as there is a dramatic gap in football class between the leading duet and rest of the teams, thus, the forthcoming visitors will probably focus on saving their current place. Just like the upcoming opponent Waterford produce magnificent game in face of their fans, having won eight out of 10 home battles while on the road they don’t feel such comfortable. The team lost five out of 10 away tackles, having managed to beat Bohemians, Limerick and Sligo Rovers from the bottom part of the table.
This year Cork City and Waterford met twice and both head-to-heads ended in favour of the latter. At first, “The Blues” had broken “Rebel Army” with 2:1 scoreline within the Premier Division and then the forthcoming visitors knocked out the opponent by penalty shoot-out in the 1/8 final stage of the League Cup. However, both those clashes were played at “Waterford Regional Sports Centre” while at the home pitch Cork City demonstrate awesome football, having won five recent encounters with 15:0 aggregated score. Therefore, “Rebel Army” is the obvious favourite of the Friday fight.
Prediction for the match: Cork City to win.
