Six points adrift at the bottom of the table, without a full time manager for the second time this season, with no Head of Football Operations and with a goalkeeper serving his second of a ten game ban, Dundalk face four-in-a-row champions Shamrock Rovers.
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The Hoops will be looking for a win over Waterford that would give them a four point haul from each of their Friday-Monday double headers that they have played over the last three weeks.
The Hoops welcome Galway United to Dublin 24 on Friday night – a venue where the visitors have failed to win on each and every occasion when they have travelled to Tallaght to take on Rovers in a first team competitive game.
The game was finally balanced last Friday night in the Brandywell until a five minute Shamrock Rovers spell saw Dylan Watts combine with Aaron Greene twice to take the game away from the Candystripes.