Perhaps a welcome break from league football as APOEL & Aris face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Cyprus Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
It's no vacation for neither APOEL nor Aris 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
APOEL have not come this way in the Cyprus Cup without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating Ahironas / Onisilos. APOEL was eliminated in the quarter-finals last season in the Cyprus Cup. Anorthosis was too strong.APOEL have performed here at Neo GSP this season with 5 wins from 9 1. Division matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 3 games and lost 1.
APOEL enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Karmiotissa's place. The match ended 2-1 with Elia and Donis scoring. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of Milojević when Elia scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 78th minute.
A 1. Division defeat was the result before that one, 0-1 away at AEL.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does APOEL handle that role? We have found 13 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 6 wins, 4 draws and 3 defeats.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Akritas are coming to town in four days.
The APOEL fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 10 in 9 matches. As for guarding their own goal, APOEL have only let in {2 goals} at home.
Aris form and stats
They also participated in Cyprus Cup last season. This ended in the 1st round.The away team have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 6 wins, 3 draws and only 1 loss in the 1. Division.
Aris are travelling again after losing away to AEK Larnaca in their previous match (3-4). A huge disappointment for Aris in their last match (vs AEK Larnaca). Leading 2-0 the victory seemed almost certain, but a fascinating collapse turned everything around and in the end all was lost in a 3-4 defeat. Aris were so close to getting something from the game against AEK Larnaca, but ended up with egg all over their face after conceding the deciding goal four minutes into overtime.
A draw for Aris before that, at their own venue hosting Akritas (0-0).We have checked recent matches where Aris have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 9 games were 3 victories, 4 draws and 2 defeats.
The travelling fans enjoy Aris's attacking play in away games, having scored 17 goals in 10 league matches away. It's not easy to score on Aris as they have only conceded 6 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): APOEL five wins, four draws and Aris one victory. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  M. Sousa Natividade 6 goals |   L. Bengtsson 5 goals |  A. Kokorin 5 goals |
APOEL missing players
Aris missing players
| APOEL | Aris | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 17 | 8 | Won | W | 6 | 12 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 7 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 3 | 6 | ||
| 35 | 16 | Scored | S | 18 | 47 | ||
| 13 | 4 | Conceded | C | 13 | 26 | ||
| 88% | 83% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 84% | ||
| 56% | 42% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 80% | ||
| 32% | 17% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 58% | 60% | ||
| 12% | 17% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 28% | ||
| 4% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 20% | ||
| 28% | 17% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 48% | ||
| 60% | 75% | Clean Sheets | C S | 58% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 24% | ||
| 5.5 | 5.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.9 | 4.7 | ||
| 2.1 | 2.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.1 | 4.5 | ||
| 2.3 | 2.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.5 | 2.8 | ||
| 4 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | ||
| 10.8 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.4 | 13.4 | ||
| 4.4 | 4.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.7 | 5.7 | ||
| 32% | 30% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 28% | ||
| 6.3 | 4.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.1 | 7.4 | ||
| 2.6 | 1.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 2.9 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | AEK Larnaca | 19 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 33 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 20 | 44 |
| 2 | APOEL | 19 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 26 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 18 | 43 |
| 3 | Paphos | 19 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 40 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 6 | 27 | 41 |
| 4 | Aris | 19 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 32 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 6 | 16 | 34 |
| 5 | Apollon | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 20 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 32 |
| 6 | Omonia Nicosia | 18 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 30 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 13 | 31 |
| 7 | AEL | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 25 |
| 8 | Nea Salamis | 18 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 18 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 10 | -5 | 25 |
| 9 | Karmiotissa | 19 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 26 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 15 | -12 | 20 |
| 10 | Anorthosis | 19 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 25 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 14 | -12 | 19 |
| 11 | Enosis | 19 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 29 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 16 | -17 | 14 |
| 12 | Olympiakos | 19 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 11 | 30 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 21 | -19 | 13 |
| 13 | Doxa | 18 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 26 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 13 | -16 | 12 |
| 14 | Akritas | 19 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 33 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 18 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 15 | -22 | 11 |
