A trophy cabinet can never have too much silverware and both Anorthosis and Paphos know what's at stake in this second leg of the Cyprus Cup 2nd Round clash.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Anorthosis form and stats
Anorthosis have played 9 1. Division games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 5-2-2 (wins-draws-losses).
Anorthosis drew their last game, also a home match. Omonia Nicosia was the opponent, 1-1 the score.
Before that, Anorthosis played out a 1. Division draw 1-1 when visiting AEK Larnaca.The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Anorthosis's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played five games, won three matches, drawn zero and lost two.
The manager Ketsbaia will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Paphos in only three days.
Anorthosis have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Stadio Antonis Papadopoulos with 14 goals in 9 league matches. On the other hand, Anorthosis have conceded 10 goals.
Paphos form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Omonia 29is Maiou in order to reach 2nd round of Cyprus Cup. Paphos was sent out of Cyprus Cup in the 2nd round last season.3-3-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Paphos in their 1. Division matches away.
Paphos play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-0 victory visiting PAEEK.
Preceding that, the 0-1 home loss versus Apollon.Looking at the earlier recent performances of Paphos when being an outsider away as they are today, we find five matches with the visitors losing four times, drawing zero and winning one game.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Anorthosis in just three days.
Paphos have conceded 11 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
These sides met each other before this season: Paphos - Anorthosis 1-3. Previous ten meetings between these contenders: Anorthosis won seven, Paphos were winners in one and we saw two draws. three games with more than 2,5 goals, seven matches with less than 2,5 goals.Top Goalscorers
  O. Valakari 8 goals |  A. Warda 7 goals |
Anorthosis missing players
Paphos missing players
| Anorthosis | Paphos | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 7 | Won | W | 5 | 11 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 8 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Lost | L | 3 | 6 | ||
| 39 | 22 | Scored | S | 11 | 32 | ||
| 32 | 15 | Conceded | C | 11 | 22 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 96% | ||
| 88% | 85% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 64% | 76% | ||
| 48% | 54% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 27% | 28% | ||
| 28% | 23% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 18% | 16% | ||
| 16% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | ||
| 64% | 69% | BTTS | BTTS | 36% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 40% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 20% | ||
| 4.3 | 3.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.6 | ||
| 4.1 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.5 | 5.5 | ||
| 2 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.4 | 2.5 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 5 | ||
| 11.1 | 10.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.4 | 9.9 | ||
| 4.8 | 3.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.7 | 4.5 | ||
| 33% | 46% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 21% | 27% | ||
| 10.6 | 10.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.6 | 8.9 | ||
| 4.1 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 3.6 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Apollon | 18 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 28 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 38 |
| 2 | AEK Larnaca | 18 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 28 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 13 | 34 |
| 3 | Aris | 18 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 34 |
| 4 | Paphos | 18 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 23 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 28 |
| 5 | Omonia Nicosia | 19 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 21 | 19 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| 6 | APOEL | 17 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 24 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 27 |
| 7 | Anorthosis | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 25 | 21 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 27 |
| 8 | AEL | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 19 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 1 | 21 |
| 9 | Doxa | 18 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 23 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 14 | -9 | 18 |
| 10 | Olympiakos | 18 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 10 | -8 | 17 |
| 11 | PAEEK | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 28 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 15 | -14 | 13 |
| 12 | Ethnikos Achna | 19 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 32 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 15 | -21 | 9 |
