Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Paphos & Akritas face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Cyprus Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
There's local pride at stake here, as these teams are practically neighbours. Expect lots of passion from both players and supporters.
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 Paphos and Akritas.
Paphos form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Cyprus Cup for Paphos, as the manager Berg led his troops to eliminate AE Zakakiou, and reach the 2nd Round. Paphos was eliminated in the 2nd round last season in the Cyprus Cup. Anorthosis was too strong.The home supporters can't complain about results here at Stadio Stelios Kyriakides as Paphos have scored 21 goals to get 20 points from 9 games. The overall stats in the 1. Division are 6-2-1 (wins-draws-losses).
Happy days for Paphos in their previous game, a fixture away at Enosis that ended with a 2-0 victory.
The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a 1. Division home game that ended 2-2 versus Apollon.There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Paphos, as the 1. Division home game vs Doxa is only four days away.
Goals decide football matches and Paphos are scoring many of them at home; 21 on target from 9 league matches. From these home matches, Paphos have conceded only 7 goals.
Akritas form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Omonia 29is Maiou in order to reach 2nd round of Cyprus Cup. Last season their Cyprus Cup adventure ended in the 1st round.There's been little loot from Akritas's travels as they have only collected 2 points from 9 away games in the 1. Division. Akritas only have 0 wins to counter their 7 defeats and 2 draws.
Akritas aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 183 league minutes without a goal. Lopes was the last player to find the net.
This game can not go any worse than the previous one, the home loss versus Olympiakos with 0-1 on the scoreboard.
A 0-0 draw at Aris's stadium before that.The visitors come into this game as huge outsiders. This role is not totally unknown to them, as they have played 8 away matches before with similar winning odds. These games have ended with 3 wins, 0 draws and 5 defeats. 3 games were lost by at least two goals margin.
Akritas are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed {4 goals} from 9 away games. In the opposite end, Akritas have conceded 15 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
Paphos have avoided defeat in the last 8 games (7-1-0) versus Akritas.Top Goalscorers
  J. de Macedo da Silva 14 goals | O. Valakari 5 goals |  W. Semedo Johnson 4 goals |
Paphos missing players
Akritas missing players
| Paphos | Akritas | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 10 | 25 | ||
| 17 | 7 | Won | W | 0 | 7 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 8 | 15 | ||
| 58 | 24 | Scored | S | 5 | 25 | ||
| 18 | 9 | Conceded | C | 17 | 38 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 90% | 96% | ||
| 80% | 73% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 60% | 68% | ||
| 60% | 64% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 30% | 56% | ||
| 40% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 10% | 16% | ||
| 8% | 9% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 10% | 8% | ||
| 40% | 45% | BTTS | BTTS | 40% | 40% | ||
| 56% | 55% | Clean Sheets | C S | 10% | 24% | ||
| 4% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 60% | 40% | ||
| 5.7 | 6.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4 | ||
| 3.4 | 3.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.8 | 6 | ||
| 1.9 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 2.1 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 11.9 | 14.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.7 | 9.8 | ||
| 5.7 | 6.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.4 | 3.5 | ||
| 40% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 13% | 19% | ||
| 7.3 | 7.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14 | 12.1 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.8 | 5.4 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | APOEL | 19 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 26 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 18 | 43 |
| 2 | Paphos | 19 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 40 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 6 | 27 | 41 |
| 3 | AEK Larnaca | 18 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 29 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 19 | 41 |
| 4 | Aris | 18 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 29 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 17 | 34 |
| 5 | Omonia Nicosia | 18 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 30 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 13 | 31 |
| 6 | Apollon | 17 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 29 |
| 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 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 22 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 11 | -9 | 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 |
