AEL will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 2 points behind APOEL.
Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!
AEL form and stats
12 points is a decent return from 6 1. Division games here at Tsirion Stadium for AEL. The data says 3 wins, 3 draws and 0 losses.
AEL manager D. Kerkez and his team return home after a 2-2 draw away versus Enosis (placed 11th) in the 1. Division. Heartbreak before that as AEL lost 0-2 at Anorthosis's place.
AEL has scored 6 league goals at home this season, in 6 matches. AEL have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 1 goal.
APOEL form and stats
Playing away, APOEL have won 2 games, drawn 2 and suffered 1 defeat in the 1. Division this season.
APOEL are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the 1. Division against Ethnikos Achna (placed 9th). Before that, APOEL secured a home win against Sevilla with the score 1-0.
APOEL have scored 7 goals on their travels this season, from 5 away games in the league. APOEL have conceded 5 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting was APOEL - AEL 3-0, played this season. Last ten meetings between the teams: AEL won 1, APOEL won 7 and 2 draws. 6 games with over 2,5 goals, 4 matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  Rubén Jurado 15 goals |   Nuno Morais 13 goals | Moussa Al Tamari 9 goals |
AEL missing players
APOEL missing players
| AEL | APOEL | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | 6 | 0 | Scored | S | 3 | 7 | 17 |
| 13 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 5 | 5 |
| 85% | 67% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 80% | 80% |
| 62% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 80% | 80% |
| 31% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 40% | 40% |
| 15% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 10% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 10% |
| 31% | 17% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 40% | 20% |
| 46% | 83% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 40% | 70% |
| 38% | 33% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 40% | 30% |
| 4.4 | 5.8 | 0 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 8 | 6.6 | 7 |
| 4.7 | 2.6 | 0 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 0.5 | 2.4 | 2.2 |
| 2.6 | 2.2 | 0 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.4 | 2.1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 128 | 67 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 25 | 65 | 144 |
| 53 | 29 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 7 | 23 | 62 |
| 25% | 21% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 30% | 27% |
- AEL have not yet lost a game at home.
- AEL have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- AEL have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- AEL have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- APOEL has the fewest conceded goals (5)
- APOEL have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- APOEL have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Omonia Nicosia | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 13 | 28 |
| 2 | Anorthosis | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 25 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 17 | 27 |
| 3 | Apollon | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 23 |
| 4 | APOEL | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 21 |
| 5 | AEL | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 19 |
| 6 | AEK Larnaca | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 21 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 18 |
| 7 | Olympiakos | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 20 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 15 |
| 8 | Nea Salamis | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 23 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | -11 | 14 |
| 9 | Ethnikos Achna | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 23 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 18 | -9 | 12 |
| 10 | Paphos | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 13 | -9 | 12 |
| 11 | Enosis | 13 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 27 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 10 | -9 | 8 |
| 12 | Doxa | 13 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 27 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | -20 | 6 |