With the volatile opening fixture finished it’s time for the second 1. Division battle of the season. APOEL look forward to welcoming Paphos in front of their stadium regulars.
It's no vacation for neither APOEL nor Paphos as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
APOEL form and stats
The season before, APOEL's league stats were 11 wins, 6 draws and 5 losses, results that produced 3rd spot in the 1. Division. During these 22 matches they scored 35 goals and conceded 25. Performing as the host team in the previous season APOEL generated 6-3-2 (win-draw-lost) with 16 goals and 9 conceded. A 1. Division draw at home so far for APOEL. Last season their home statistics were 1 win, 4 draws and 0 defeats from 5 matches.
A draw after 90 minutes last time out for APOEL, who played 1-1 against Paphos. That match was also played at this venue (Neo GSP).
Before that fixture, a home victory against Djurgården in the Europa Conference League.
At Neo GSP, APOEL has the goal stats of 1-1 (for/against) from 1 league fixture.
Paphos form and stats
Let's have a look at how Paphos performed last season in the 1. Division: They landed a 6th position in the league table after playing out 8 victories, 10 draws and 4 defeats. In total they scored 27 and conceded 19 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 4 - drew 4 and lost 3 with 11/12 goals scored/conceded. The visitors settled for one point in their first 1. Division away game of the season. During their previous season 5 away games resulted in 1 win, 0 draws and 4 defeats.
It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to APOEL (placed 4th) in their previous outing. The match ended in a draw 1-1.
That result followed a home victory 3-1 versus APOEL.As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Paphos playing away, we found 6 games. Results were 2 away wins, 0 draws and 4 home wins.
Paphos have the goal stats of 1-1 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
The sides have played each other previously this season, with the match result APOEL - Paphos 1-1 written in the official records. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two APOEL victories, three draws and five Paphos wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less. One of the profiles has been Valakari with 7 goals scored against APOEL in these 10 encounters.
APOEL missing players
Paphos missing players
| APOEL | Paphos | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 1 | 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% |
| 0% | 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% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 6 | 6 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | 8 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 25% | 25% |
| 6 | 6 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| APOEL | Last season | Paphos | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 32 | 16 | Played | P | 16 | 32 | ||
| 14 | 7 | Won | W | 5 | 11 | ||
| 10 | 7 | Drew | D | 4 | 13 | ||
| 8 | 2 | Lost | L | 7 | 8 | ||
| 48 | 21 | Scored | S | 15 | 39 | ||
| 41 | 13 | Conceded | C | 19 | 30 | ||
| 94% | 94% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 94% | 94% | ||
| 81% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 78% | ||
| 53% | 25% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 31% | 28% | ||
| 28% | 6% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 12% | 16% | ||
| 16% | 6% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | ||
| 66% | 56% | BTTS | BTTS | 44% | 50% | ||
| 25% | 31% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 31% | ||
| 16% | 19% | Failed to Score | F T | 38% | 25% | ||
| 5.9 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 4.9 | ||
| 3.5 | 3.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.2 | 5.5 | ||
| 2.8 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.5 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 5 | ||
| 12.5 | 13.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.4 | 10.8 | ||
| 5.2 | 5.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.3 | 4.7 | ||
| 29% | 23% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 23% | 27% | ||
| 8.6 | 7.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.4 | 9.1 | ||
| 3.8 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 3.5 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Anorthosis | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | Aris | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Nea Salamis | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | APOEL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Paphos | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | AEK Larnaca | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Akritas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Apollon | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Doxa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Enosis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Omonia Nicosia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | AEL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 13 | Karmiotissa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 14 | Olympiakos | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 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 |
