The AEL & Omonia Nicosia managers D. Kerkez and H. Berg are both dreading and looking forward to this decisive game in the upper regions of the 1. Division league table.
- AEL has the most scored goals in the first half (18) in 1. Division
- Omonia Nicosia has the fewest conceded goals (11) in 1. Division
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for AEL and Omonia Nicosia.
AEL form and stats
8-0-0 is the performance here at Tsirion Athlítiko Kentro so far in the 1. Division, giving AEL a total of 24 from their 8 games here. Outstanding results!
A nice win for AEL last time playing, versus AEK Larnaca. That was also a home game and the match ended 3-1 with M. Babić (2) and Danilo scoring for the victors. Before that match, a win away at Karmiotissa.
The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how AEL have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found three matches with the results: Won zero, drawn three and lost zero.
Goals are plentiful at Tsirion Athlítiko Kentro in the league this season as AEL has scored 23 goals here in 8 home games. From these home matches, AEL have conceded only 5 goals.
Omonia Nicosia form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team, who have the fewest conceded goals (11) in 1. Division, on their 1. Division travels is 4 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats. Impressively, the visitors are on a six-match winning run which they hope continue versus AEL. Omonia Nicosia have won three away matches in a row now and will not be intimidated by being the visitors in this fixture.
Nicosia go into this game after a win, the home game against Apollon that ended 2-1. Prior to that result Omonia Nicosia won their away game at AEK Larnaca. The scoreline was 3-0.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found four similar matches played by Omonia Nicosia in our archives, and the results are: one win for Omonia Nicosia, three draws and zero defeats.
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The 1. Division trip to Apollon.
The Nicosia manager H. Berg has got the team scoring on the road, with 17 away goals in 8 league matches. It's worth mentioning that 11 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Nicosia have conceded 8 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
The most recent history between these sides is the Omonia Nicosia - AEL 3-0 played earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): AEL three wins, one draw and Omonia Nicosia six victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Babić 7 goals | L. Riera Ortega 6 goals |   E. Asante 6 goals |
AEL missing players
Omonia Nicosia missing players
| AEL | Omonia Nicosia | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 17 | 8 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 8 | 17 |
| 12 | 8 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 32 | 23 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 17 | 30 |
| 16 | 5 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 8 | 11 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 82% |
| 76% | 88% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 88% | 71% |
| 71% | 88% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 75% | 65% |
| 24% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 12% |
| 12% | 25% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | 6% |
| 59% | 62% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 62% | 47% |
| 24% | 38% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 47% |
| 18% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 12% | 24% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.7 | 1.9 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 1.8 | 1.4 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10.8 | 12.2 | 9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 10.9 | 10.6 |
| 5.5 | 6.6 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 5 | 4.8 |
| 34% | 43% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 42% | 37% |
- AEL has the fewest matches under the total-line (5) in 1. Division
- AEL has the most matches over the total-line (12) in 1. Division
- AEL has the most points (24) at home in 1. Division
- AEL has the most scored goals (23) at home in 1. Division
- AEL has the most scored goals in the first half (18) in 1. Division
- AEL has the the best goal difference (+18) at home in 1. Division
- AEL have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- AEL have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- AEL have scored in all their home matches so far.
- AEL have won all their matches at home so far.
- AEL haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Omonia Nicosia has the fewest conceded goals (11) in 1. Division
- Omonia Nicosia has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (6) in 1. Division
- Omonia Nicosia have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Omonia Nicosia have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Omonia Nicosia haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Omonia Nicosia is in the best form (6-0-0)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | AEL | 17 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 32 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 16 | 37 |
| 2 | Apollon | 17 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 37 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 7 | 22 | 36 |
| 3 | Omonia Nicosia | 17 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 30 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 8 | 19 | 35 |
| 4 | Anorthosis | 18 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 27 | 19 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 33 |
| 5 | AEK Larnaca | 17 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 24 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 29 |
| 6 | Doxa | 18 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 20 | 22 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | -2 | 24 |
| 7 | Olympiakos | 16 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 12 | -4 | 24 |
| 8 | Paphos | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 21 |
| 9 | Nea Salamis | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 18 | 27 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 11 | -9 | 19 |
| 10 | Ermis | 18 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 22 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -12 | 18 |
| 11 | APOEL | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | -6 | 16 |
| 12 | Karmiotissa | 18 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 30 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 19 | -12 | 15 |
| 13 | Ethnikos Achna | 18 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 27 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 14 | -15 | 12 |
| 14 | Enosis | 17 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 14 | 30 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 15 | -16 | 12 |