Shelbourne 3-1 Linfield: result and report

Europa Conference League · Thursday 21 August 2025

Result

Shelbourne 3-1 Linfield

Europa Conference League · Thursday 21 August 2025, 18:45 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Shelbourne 3-1 Linfield: match report

Shelbourne beat Linfield 3-1 in the Europa Conference League on Thursday 21 August 2025. The half-time score was 1-0.

Harry Wood opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Shelbourne's goals came from Harry Wood (45+1', penalty), Mipo Odubeko (46') and Evan Caffrey (77'). Linfield scored through Kieran Offord (53').

Discipline: Shelbourne received 1 yellow card; Linfield received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.

This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa Conference League season and is kept for reference.

Shelbourne lined up in a 4-4-2 and Linfield in a 5-3-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Evan Caffrey of Shelbourne (6.9), ahead of Harry Wood (6.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Shelbourne win, 1 draw and 0 for Linfield.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 18'Red card · Matthew FitzpatrickLinfield
  • 41'Missed penalty · Mipo OdubekoShelbourne
  • 45+1'Penalty goal · Harry WoodShelbourne · 1-0
  • 46'Goal · Mipo OdubekoShelbourne · 2-0
  • 53'Goal · Kieran OffordLinfield · 2-1
  • 62'Yellow card · Paddy BarrettShelbourne
  • 63'Missed penalty · Kieran OffordLinfield
  • 77'Goal · Evan CaffreyShelbourne · 3-1
  • 90+5'Yellow card · Kyle McCleanLinfield
  • 90+6'Yellow card · D. HealyLinfield

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Shelbourne 1, draws 1, Linfield 0.

Team news

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Shelbourne line-up (4-4-2)

Wessel Speel, Milan Mbeng, Mark Coyle, Paddy Barrett, Sam Bone, Harry Wood, JJ Lunney, Kerr McInroy, James Norris, John Martin, Mipo Odubeko

Linfield line-up (5-3-2)

Chris Johns, Kirk Millar, Ethan McGee, Ben Hall, Sam Roscoe, Euan East, Josh Archer, Chris Shields, Kyle McClean, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Kieran Offord