APOEL have come here for an intriguing fight against the hosting Anorthosis. Read up on the fixture with this full 1. Division preview!
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 Anorthosis and APOEL.
Anorthosis form and stats
The home fans saw their team lose the first 1. Division game of the season here at Stadio Antonis Papadopoulos. Last season these fans witnessed 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses from Anorthosis's 5 home games.
The Anorthosis followers got no joy from their last match, also played here at Stadio Antonis Papadopoulos: A 0-2 defeat against APOEL (placed 4th).
Before that match, a win away at Olympiakos.This is expected to be a close game, with Anorthosis perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Anorthosis as a small favourite), we find 11 games. Anorthosis has won 5 of these, drawn 3 and lost 3.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Anorthosis at home in the league. 0 on target and 2 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.
APOEL form and stats
Only one away game in the 1. Division so far for APOEL and it resulted in three points. Last season the statistics for their away games were 2 victories, 0 draws and 3 losses from 5 travels.
Two away games in a row for APOEL, whose coach Avgousti could celebrate last time after the win against Anorthosis.
Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Paphos.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 12 similar matches played by APOEL in our archives, and the results are: 4 wins for APOEL, 2 draws and 6 defeats.
2 goals so far away for APOEL, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 0. All from 1 league match away.
Head 2 Head
This was the score when the sides faced each other earlier this campaign; Anorthosis - APOEL 0-2. Head-to-head statistics (for the former ten meetings): Anorthosis won six games, two matches ended in a draw and APOEL have two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: four / six The matches between these sides have had a tendency to be rough and physical, having seen 7 sending-offs from the last ten duels.
Top Goalscorers
  R. Ninga 2 goals |   M. Sušić 1 goals |  M. Sousa Natividade 1 goals |
Anorthosis missing players
APOEL missing players
| Anorthosis | APOEL | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 100% | 50% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 4.5 | 2 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | 3 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 5 | 4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | 11 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 6 | 7 |
| 4 | 5 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 4 | 3.5 |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 50% | 43% |
| 6.5 | 6 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 11 | 8.5 |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 5 | 4.5 |
| Anorthosis | Last season | APOEL | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 32 | 16 | Played | P | 16 | 32 | ||
| 13 | 9 | Won | W | 7 | 14 | ||
| 10 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 10 | ||
| 9 | 4 | Lost | L | 6 | 8 | ||
| 48 | 27 | Scored | S | 27 | 48 | ||
| 40 | 20 | Conceded | C | 28 | 41 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 94% | 94% | ||
| 88% | 88% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 88% | 81% | ||
| 47% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 81% | 53% | ||
| 28% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 28% | ||
| 12% | 12% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 16% | ||
| 69% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 66% | ||
| 22% | 19% | Clean Sheets | C S | 19% | 25% | ||
| 9% | 6% | Failed to Score | F T | 12% | 16% | ||
| 5.2 | 5.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.4 | 5.9 | ||
| 4.3 | 3.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.6 | 3.5 | ||
| 2.4 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 2.8 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 5 | ||
| 11.8 | 11.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.1 | 12.5 | ||
| 4.8 | 4.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 5.2 | ||
| 31% | 37% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 29% | ||
| 11.3 | 10.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10 | 8.6 | ||
| 4.4 | 4.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.7 | 3.8 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Aris | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2 | Apollon | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | Paphos | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| 4 | APOEL | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | Nea Salamis | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Akritas | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Omonia Nicosia | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Enosis | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Anorthosis | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | -1 | 3 |
| 10 | AEK Larnaca | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 1 |
| 11 | Doxa | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 |
| 12 | AEL | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| 13 | Karmiotissa | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -5 | 0 |
| 14 | Olympiakos | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | -6 | 0 |
| Last season | 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 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 58 |
| 2 | AEK Larnaca | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 54 |
| 3 | APOEL | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 12 | -3 | 52 |
| 4 | Aris | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 50 |
| 5 | Anorthosis | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -2 | 49 |
| 6 | Paphos | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 46 |
