Galway United vs Dundalk - prediction, team news, lineups

Hoping to region themselves from the League of Ireland Premier Division's relegation zone, Galway United volition look high-flying Dundalk connected unfamiliar turf astatine Turner's Cross connected Friday.

The Tribesmen are looking for conscionable their 2nd triumph successful 5 games this week, portion the Lilywhites are eyeing back-to-back victories.

Match preview

John Caulfield's Galway kept their heads supra h2o acknowledgment lone to their goal-difference successful 2025, and unless they tin find their feet, this term's combat for endurance looks acceptable to beryllium different tense battle.

The Tribesmen are not helped by the information that indispensable drainage works person forced them to permission their regular location (Emaonn Deacy Park) for overmuch of the summer, and though they person an statement to groundshare with the Galway GAA squad astatine Pearse Stadium, scheduling conflicts mean that the nine volition beryllium playing successful Cork connected Friday.

Relocating means that fans of Caulfield's broadside volition request to marque a adjacent 400km round-trip to drawback this crippled successful person, and a reduced assemblage is expected arsenic a result.

Last clip out, Galway came from down to unafraid a constituent successful a 1-1 gully with Shelbourne, acknowledgment to a 65th-minute equaliser from Frantz Pierrot.

That stalemate connected May 29 followed connected from a 4-2 decision against Bohemians a week earlier, and extended the club's hold for a cleanable expanse to a concerning 15 matches, a tally that goes backmost to a 1-0 triumph implicit Sligo Rovers connected February 27.

To marque matters worse, the Tribesmen person present triumphed connected conscionable 1 juncture crossed their past 8 outings, beating the Bit O'Red erstwhile again successful mid-May, alongside 4 draws and 3 defeats.

Such a mediocre tally has the Tribesmen seventh, wherever their tally of 21 points sees them lone 2 supra ninth-placed Sligo, and a nonaccomplishment connected Friday could beryllium peculiarly damaging arsenic a result.

Meanwhile, Ciaran Kilduff's Dundalk earned promotion by winning the First Division successful 2025, and though specified endurance would person been seen arsenic a success, they find themselves wrong scope of the European places this week.

The Lilywhites travel into Friday's showdown connected the backmost of a 2-1 triumph implicit Derry City, a triumph that means the squad person mislaid conscionable 1 of their past 5 games - 3-1 against Bohemians connected May 8.

Achieving triumph astatine the process extremity of past period has near Kilduff's men 4th with 29 points to their name, a full that sees the promoted nine 3 shy of third-placed St Patrick's Athletic.

Dreaming of making the measurement up to the Conference League qualifier spots, the visitors volition instrumentality bosom from the information that they person mislaid conscionable erstwhile connected the roadworthy since February.

However, the travelling supporters volition besides beryllium wary of the information that Dundalk person lone won 1 of their 9 distant games this season, beating Shelbourne 3-2 connected April 3.

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Team News

Galway volition beryllium without striker Dara McGuiness, who has been sidelined since February, though the versatile Stephen Walsh should beryllium connected manus to pb the enactment connected Friday.

The 35-year-old frontman is apt to beryllium supported by Edward McCarthy and Kristopher Twardek from retired wide, while Frantz Pierrot operates successful a fig 10 role.

As for Dundalk, they are missing goalkeeper Conor Kearns owed to a genu issue, not to notation that centre-back Mayowa Animasahun is moving his mode backmost from a hamstring injury, and chap centre-half Conor O'Keeffe is simply a doubt.

Filling the gaps, Kilduff could opt for a trio of Robert Cornwall, John Ross Wilson and Bobby Burns, flanking the backline with Declan McDaid and Tyreke Wilson fixed that right-winger Norman Garbett is dealing with a hamstring wounded of his own.

Galway United imaginable starting lineup:

Watts; Barratt, Williams, Broder, Devitt; Keohane, Hurley; Twardek, Pierrot, McCarthy; Walsh

Dundalk imaginable starting lineup:

Minogue; McDaid, Cornwall, J Wilson, Burns, T Wilson; Kenny, Dervin, Tracey, Horgan; Arubi

We say: Galway United 1-2 Dundalk

Galway person struggled for wins successful caller months and their porous defence suggests they are improbable to support a cleanable expanse this week, portion playing distant from their location could besides beryllium detrimental.

Dundalk person not fared good connected the road, but they could locomotion distant with an important triumph connected Friday, fixed their opponents' strife.

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