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Longford Town suffered a massive slip-up during the week as they lost to Bray, the first win of the season for Wanderers. The result leaves Longford in danger of being dragged into the bottom two. St. Pats on the other hand are still going strong and have lost just one of their ten league games to date.

Longford Town vs St. Patricks Athletic
(Flancare Park - 7:30 pm - Premier)

The Saints can climb back to fourth in the table and top Dublin club if they win and they could even to go third, depending on Derry's result.

Longford have won just once and along with the other two teams in the bottom have the worst goal-scoring record in the division.

Longford should have a near full strength squad to call from again but changes are expected after the midweek loss.

The Saints are still struggling with injuries and will be without Colm Foley, Chris Armstrong and Brendan Clarke. Stephen Caffrey, Mark Rutherford and Stephen Quigley are all also expected to miss out.

League form for Longford Town : LWLDL
League form for St. Patricks Athletic : DWWWD

Previous meeting(s) : St. Patricks Athletic 1-3 Longford Town (18/11/2005)
Longford Town 1-0 St. Patricks Athletic (20/08/2005)
St. Patricks Athletic 0-1 Longford Town (27/05/2005)
St. Patricks Athletic 1-0 Longford Town (29/10/2004)
Longford Town 2-1 St. Patricks Athletic (14/08/2004)
IrishFootballOnline.com Prediction: Away win.
[filed : May 20 2006 12:40 ]


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