Ireland’s second Premier Division match day continued match will present a match between Cork City acting as host to host Waterford United at Turner’s Cross. Interesting enough because both the hosts and their visitors fell together in the last game, Cork City lost 1-0 to hosts St Patrick’s while Waterfor United were humiliated by Shamrock Rovers 1-2.

As a result, while Cork City are ranked 8th in the standings, Waterford United are in 7th place, but because it is still the beginning of the season it is clear that changes in ranking will still be easy to change so it cannot be a benchmark for the current strength. In last season Waterford United ended the season ranked 4 in the standings while Cork City was ranked 2.

Cork City itself got a far more impressive score with 24 wins, 5 draws and 7 losses, the hosts were 10 points adrift of defending champions Dundalk while Waterford United were 2 places adrift but in terms of points very far away. Waterford United have 59 points with 18 wins, 5 draws and 13 defeats.

So that arguably Cork City is stronger than Waterford United, other supporting records are in terms of their head to head in the last 10 meetings where Waterford United only get 1 win result while Cork City 7 wins and the remaining 2 draw draw. Most likely Waterford Untied will be beaten in this match.

Our Prediction: 1

Odds: 1.65