National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Olympiakos Piraeus or PAOK that keep their silverware dream alive.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Olympiakos Piraeus form and stats
4W-2D-0L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Greek Cup for Olympiakos Piraeus. In general it's been a long time since Olympiakos tasted defeat here at Olympiako Stadio Spyros Louis, as they have taken at least one point from their last 19 home games in the league.
Olympiakos are returning here after visiting Panathinaikos in a Super League game and winning with a 4-1 scoreline. Giorgos Masouras (2) and Youssef El Arabi (2) scored the goal(s). Sensational by Olympiakos Piraeus last match, beating Panathinaikos away as big underdogs.
Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against PAOK.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Olympiakos handle that role? We have found four games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are three wins, zero draws and one defeat.
PAOK form and stats
PAOK's mission in Greek Cup last season failed in the semi-finals against Olympiakos Piraeus.The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Greek Cup stats, they have 5 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses both home and away.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Super League home defeat versus Asteras Tripolis with 0-1 on the scoreboard.
A 0-1 defeat away at Olympiakos Piraeus before that.PAOK are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is zero wins, one draw and two defeats. From a total of three matches.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Olympiakos victories, two draws and three PAOK wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, eight matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  Y. El-Arabi 22 goals |  G. Masouras 13 goals |   K. Świderski 11 goals |
Olympiakos Piraeus missing players
PAOK missing players
| Olympiakos Piraeus | PAOK | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 16 | 11 | Won | W | 5 | 13 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 5 | 6 | ||
| 48 | 28 | Scored | S | 12 | 46 | ||
| 22 | 9 | Conceded | C | 15 | 26 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 80% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 80% | ||
| 56% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 60% | ||
| 28% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 32% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | ||
| 60% | 46% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 48% | ||
| 36% | 54% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 36% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 20% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.3 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 11.3 | 11.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.2 | 11.9 | ||
| 4.4 | 4.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.3 | 5.4 | ||
| 44% | 46% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 23% | 34% | ||