Apollon battle against APOEL, who have the fewest conceded goals (2) in 1. Division, for glory and sporting success.
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Europa League.
These teams are so close in distance that this match is special, a derby with local pride the main prize.
Apollon form and stats
Apollon must be fairly happy with 6 points from their first three 1. Division games here at Tsirion Stadium.
A good away victory last time out for Apollon, who won 3-0 against Enosis (placed 10th). Preceding that match was a defeat to AEL (1-2).
The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Apollon have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found one match with the results: Won 0 Drawn 0 Lost 1.
Goals decide football matches and Apollon are scoring many of them at home; 7 on target from 3 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Apollon defense is not exactly impregnable. 5 goals conceded from 3 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
APOEL form and stats
APOEL are yet to lose a point on their 1. Division travels this season with 2 wins from 2 away games. APOEL love their trips these days, as their two previous away games have resulted in victories.
APOEL are travelling after their nice 2-1 home win in the Europa League against Qarabag. Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against AEK Larnaca in the 1. Division.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found three similar matches played by APOEL in our archives, and the results are: 1 win for APOEL, 1 draw and 1 defeat.
APOEL have the goal stats of 6-2 (for/against) from 2 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 4 Apollon victories, 0 draws and 6 APOEL wins. 9 of these games ended with three goals or more, 1 match with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
 
Nuno Morais
13 goals
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F. Pereyra
11 goals
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E. Zelaya
10 goals
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Apollon missing players
APOEL missing players
| Apollon | APOEL | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs
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Statistics | Stat | vs
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Away | Total |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | 7 | 0 | Scored | S | 3 | 6 | 11 |
| 10 | 5 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 88% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 80% |
| 62% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 80% |
| 62% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 60% |
| 38% | 67% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 50% | 20% |
| 12% | 33% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 50% | 20% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 20% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 50% | 80% |
| 38% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 5.1 | 7.7 | 0 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 7 | 9 | 8 |
| 3.2 | 2.7 | 0 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 1 | 2.5 | 2 |
| 3.1 | 3.3 | 0 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.5 | 1.6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- APOEL have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- APOEL have scored in all their away matches so far.
- APOEL have won all their away games so far.
- APOEL have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- All of APOEL's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- All of Apollon's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Apollon have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Apollon have won significantly more corners at home than away.
| 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 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 19 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 15 | 18 |
| 2 | Omonia Nicosia | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 18 |
| 3 | AEK Larnaca | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 18 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 15 |
| 4 | AEL | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 14 |
| 5 | APOEL | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 13 |
| 6 | Ethnikos Achna | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 10 | -1 | 11 |
| 7 | Nea Salamis | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -5 | 11 |
| 8 | Apollon | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 10 |
| 9 | Paphos | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -5 | 8 |
| 10 | Enosis | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 20 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | -7 | 4 |
| 11 | Olympiakos | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -7 | 4 |
| 12 | Doxa | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -14 | 3 |