Galway United – Derry City : 8th May 2017

Galway United ranks last in the Premier Division, with only 9 points in 11 rounds. Thus, Shane Keegan’s band will be again engaged in a tough struggle to avoid regurgitation, after last season avoided the “Red Zone” greenery, ranking in the 9th position. Despite the fact that they have only had one success in the championship this season, “The Tribesmen” seems to have recovered relatively lately, not knowing the taste of defeat in the “Premier” for more than a month, from Bray failure (0-1). One after the other, even if the guests are the favorites of the meeting tonight, they will cheer with a fanciful band, in desperate need of points.

Derry City ranks fourth in the Premier Division hierarchy, with 18 points gathered in 11 stages. So, we can say that Kenny Shiels’s students are in a certain crisis, from which they seem to be starting to find their way out. Success from the previous round in front of Bohemians (2-0) ended the “black” series of seven consecutive non-victory games for The Candystripes. Since the chances that any team in the first division of Ireland will attack the title in front of a leader who has not lost any points in 12 stages, Derry City will aim to take a podium place to participate in the UEFA Europa League Preliminaries .
Direct meetings

In the last ten direct confrontations between the two bands, Derry City has imposed six times, Galway in the other two rows, while the other two duels ended in a draw;

The most recent direct duel took place just three weeks ago, within the finals of the Irish League Cup finals, at the end of which Galway landed “Terryland Park” with a 2-0 victory;

Probable teams:

Galway United (4-4-2): Winn – Folan, Grace, Horgan, Ludden – Cawley, Devaney, Holohan, Shanahan – Faherty, Murray

Derry City (3-4-3): Doherty-Barry, Jarvis, McDermott-Daniels, McEnuff, McNamee, Monaghan- Boyle, Curtis, Doherty