The Irish Premier league is one of rather big class differences, so we start from there. A bottom-3 team hosting a top-3 team, who have been on fire lately.

The league itself is full of small clubs, even the teams with the biggest transfer market value in players are worth of only 3 million EUR. Dundalk are somewhere midtable in this aspect, Drogheda have the cheapest squad. The league could be compared to for example Finland Veikkausliiga, the players they buy have to cheap and unknown, and occasionally someone finds a good talent or two who lead the club to unexpected heights.

Back to these two. Drogheda - more or less a Dublin - based team last 10 games look like this:

2-3-5 with gD of 9-18. Not very impressive is it? However the both wins are at home, against another bottom team Finn Harps and surprisingly over league leaders Shamrock Rovers! It ended 1-0, and Shamrock match report mentions excellent defensive battle, so obvioulsy also Drogheda can have their moments, and it was a big derby match for Drogheda at the time against a team who came to the game with a wrong attitude.

The last game ended in a bad 3-0 loss away to St Pats, even if the team was and has been almost fully fit, the previous 3 ones were low-scoring draws and in general Droghdeda do not get the ball into the attacking box even vs mediocre teams, but they are restricted to long shots. A recipe to relegation in my mind, they rely on not conceding goals.

Dundalk last 10 games look a lot different:

8-2-0 gD 19-6. This is better is it not? The teams met in Dundalk in April, Dundalk won easily 4-1 and is it repeated tonight? Last match was a 3-0 win over another bottom club UCD. In fact Dundalk have lost only twice in last 21 games, and as one of the losses happened exactly here at Drogheda they are well prepared.

At team news front the situation at Dundalk is good, unchaged or better than last week so it is no problem.

This might be one to watch, I am a big fan of derbies so if you have a change then tune in, and with a ticket of Dundalk win in your pocket!

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It is regional derby, the travel time is about 20 minutes so at least there is no travel tiredness involved.

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爱尔兰超级联赛是一个非常大的阶级差异，所以我们从那里开始。一支倒数三的球队主场迎战一支最近状态火热的前三的球队。

联赛本身就充斥着小俱乐部，即使是球员转会市场价值最高的球队，身价也只有300万欧元。在这方面，登多克处于中间位置，德罗赫达拥有最便宜的阵容。这个联赛可以与芬兰的Veikkausliiga相提并论，他们购买的球员必须便宜且不知名，偶尔有人会发现一两个优秀的人才，带领俱乐部达到意想不到的高度。

回到这两位。德罗赫达——都柏林队近10场比赛的样子是这样的:

2-3-5, gD为9-18。不是很令人印象深刻吗?然而，两场胜利都是在主场，对手是另一支垫底的球队芬恩·哈普斯，出人意料地战胜了联赛领头羊三叶草流浪者!这场比赛以1比0结束，三叶草的比赛报告提到了出色的防守，所以显然德罗赫达也会有自己的时刻，对当时的德罗赫达来说，这是一场重要的德比战，对手是一支态度错误的球队。

上一场比赛以0 - 3惨败给圣帕特斯，尽管球队已经几乎完全恢复了状态，但之前的三场比赛都是低分平局，通常德罗赫达即使面对平庸的球队也无法将球送进进攻禁区，但他们仅限于远射。在我看来，降级的秘诀就是不丢球。

Dundalk最近的10场比赛看起来很不一样:

8-2-0 gD 19胜6败。这样更好，不是吗?这两支球队今年4月在敦多克相遇，敦多克以4比1轻松获胜，今晚还会重演吗?上一场比赛是3-0战胜另一个垫底的俱乐部UCD。事实上，在过去的21场比赛中，顿多克只输了2场，其中一场就发生在德罗赫达，他们已经做好了充分的准备。

在球队的新闻前线，登多克的情况很好，没有变化，甚至比上周更好，所以这不是问题。

这可能是一个值得关注的，我是德比的超级球迷，所以如果你有变化，那么收听，在你的口袋里有一张邓多克的票!

预测比分：0 - 2

这是一场地区德比，旅行时间大约是20分钟，所以至少没有旅行疲劳。