Super League prediction: Olympiakos Piraeus should edge out Lamia on their own turf

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Competition: Greece Super League
Competition: Sun 19.December
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Georgios Karaiskáki (32115 seats)

The Super League standings tell the truth about these teams so far, with Olympiakos Piraeus in front of Lamia by 27 points. Here's our preview:

Insights:
  • Olympiakos Piraeus have the fewest conceded goals (9) in Super League
  • Lamia have the most dropped points from leading position (8) in Super League

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Olympiakos Piraeus form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Stadio Georgios Karaiskáki as Olympiakos Piraeus have scored 10 goals to get 17 points from 7 games. The overall stats in the Super League are 5-2-0 (wins-draws-losses). Olympiakos has a nice streak going on as they have played 14 consecutive leaguegames without losing (regardless of home/away). They are keen to extend their tally, a streak that began after the Atromitos defeat 97 days ago.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Tomas Vaclik not having conceded a league goal in 254 minutes.

A good away victory last time out for Olympiakos Piraeus, who won 3-0 against Atromitos (placed 13th). Arabi was absolutely essential when Olympiakos beat Atromitos 3-0, scoring three goals.

Ahead of that match, Olympiakos won a home game hosting Aris (1-0).

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Levadiakos are coming to town in three days.

Olympiakos Piraeus are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 10 goals in 7 games. As for guarding their own goal, Olympiakos have only let in 3 goals at home.

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Lamia form and stats

2-2-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Lamia in their Super League matches away.

Lamia's last game was the home draw against Volos NFC (2-2). An inspired comeback made the scores level in Lamia's duel with Volos NFC. It looked bad at 0-2 but the team were not done and fought back to 2-2 after Bejarano found the equalizer.

Prior to that match, the Lamia manager Grigoriou faced defeat when travelling to PAOK and losing 1-2.

With the hosts identified as having a victory chance of roughly 80% by the bookies, any positive result for the away team would be an eye-opener. Researching earlier games with similar odds and Lamia as the visiting side, we found four results. The data from these were zero away wins, zero draws and four defeats. The visitors lost three of these games by at least two goals.

Lamia have another match away from home in just four days, a Greek Cup fixture vs Ionikos. A strenuous itinerary for the visitors!

The attacking power of Lamia when travelling is not overwhelming with 5 goals scored from 7 league matches away. Lamia are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 6 times in 7 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

The most up to date past match featuring both these contenders is the Lamia - Olympiakos Piraeus 1-2 played not long ago this season. Olympiakos Piraeus-Lamia H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Olympiakos Piraeus seven wins, Lamia one win, two draws. seven of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Olympiakos PiraeusY. El-Arabi
Y. El-Arabi
8 goals
Olympiakos PiraeusP. Cissé
P. Cissé
4 goals
Olympiakos PiraeusA. Camara
A. Camara
4 goals

Olympiakos Piraeus missing players

Lamia missing players

Olympiakos Piraeus Lamia
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
14 7 3 Played P 2 7 14
12 5 2 Won W 0 2 2
2 2 1 Drew D 0 2 5
0 0 0 Lost L 2 3 7
27 10 5 Scored S 1 5 13
9 3 1 Conceded C 3 6 19
86% 71% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 71% 86%
71% 43% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 43% 57%
64% 43% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 43% 57%
21% 14% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 29%
14% 14% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
57% 43% 33% BTTS BTTS 50% 43% 57%
43% 57% 67% Clean Sheets C S 0% 43% 21%
14% 29% 33% Failed to Score F T 50% 43% 36%
 
5.6 6.6 8.3 Corners for (avg) C F 2 3.1 3.4
4.1 2.7 1.3 Corners against (avg) C A 9 6 5.1
1 1 0.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 5 3.3 2.6
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
15.5 18.3 19.7 Shots (avg) S ( 7.5 8 9.3
4.6 4.6 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.5 2.4 3.1
42% 31% 28% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 29% 30%
 
8.6 7.1 5 Shots against (avg) S A 14.5 13.7 13.2
2.4 2 2.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 4.7 4.4
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Lamia have the most dropped points from leading position (8) in Super League
  • Olympiakos Piraeus have not yet lost a game.
  • Olympiakos Piraeus have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Olympiakos Piraeus have scored more than double the goals of Lamia.
  • Olympiakos Piraeus have the fewest conceded goals (3) at home in Super League
  • Olympiakos Piraeus have the fewest conceded goals (9) in Super League
  • Olympiakos Piraeus have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in Super League
  • Olympiakos Piraeus have the most points (17) at home in Super League
  • Olympiakos Piraeus have the the best goal difference (+18) in Super League
  • Olympiakos Piraeus have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Olympiakos Piraeus is in the best form (6-0-0) in Super League

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Olympiakos Piraeus 14 12 2 0 27 9 7 5 2 0 10 3 7 7 0 0 17 6 18 38
2 AEK Athens 13 8 3 2 25 14 6 5 0 1 12 4 7 3 3 1 13 10 11 27
3 PAOK 14 8 1 5 28 18 6 3 1 2 12 8 8 5 0 3 16 10 10 25
4 PAS Giannina 14 6 4 4 19 14 8 3 2 3 11 12 6 3 2 1 8 2 5 22
5 Panathinaikos 13 6 2 5 22 11 7 5 1 1 18 5 6 1 1 4 4 6 11 20
6 OFI 12 4 6 2 14 12 7 2 3 2 9 10 5 2 3 0 5 2 2 18
7 Aris 13 7 2 4 15 12 6 3 2 1 7 6 7 4 0 3 8 6 3 17
8 Asteras Tripolis 14 4 5 5 13 12 7 3 1 3 9 7 7 1 4 2 4 5 1 17
9 Volos NFC 14 4 3 7 24 29 7 3 0 4 10 11 7 1 3 3 14 18 -5 15
10 Ionikos 13 3 5 5 13 18 6 2 3 1 7 6 7 1 2 4 6 12 -5 14
11 Panaitolikos 14 3 3 8 14 26 7 1 2 4 7 11 7 2 1 4 7 15 -12 12
12 Lamia 14 2 5 7 13 19 7 0 3 4 8 13 7 2 2 3 5 6 -6 11
13 Atromitos 14 2 3 9 13 30 7 2 1 4 9 12 7 0 2 5 4 18 -17 9
14 Apollon Smirnis 12 1 4 7 7 23 6 1 3 2 4 6 6 0 1 5 3 17 -16 7

Read more about Super League

The Super League is the highest level of football in Greece. The league has 16 teams playing two fixtures against each other, for a total of 30 games each. The season runs from August to May to decide a final league table. The “big three” (Olympiacos, Panathinaikos and AEK Athens; all from Athens) dominate this league.