Champions League betting and spectator preview: Olympiakos Piraeus and Manchester City meet at Stadio Georgios Karaiskáki to measure strength and learn who makes it to the next stage.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
It's quite the trip for Manchester City when visiting Olympiakos Piraeus as the cities are 3500 kilometers apart.
Olympiakos Piraeus form and stats
Olympiakos participated in Champions League the last season, where they reached the group stage.Overall Super League stats at home this season for Olympiakos Piraeus are 5-0-0 (wins-draw-losses). 2W-1D-2L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Champions League for Olympiakos Piraeus. After failing to beat PAOK here at Stadio Georgios Karaiskáki, Olympiakos has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with six wins in a row. The team is doing great wherever they are playing as Olympiakos Piraeus has won four games in a row. The PAS Giannina match was the last time out without a victory.
The Olympiakos Piraeus goalkeeper Jose Pedro Malheiro de Sa is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 445 minutes without conceding a goal in the Super League.
Olympiakos's last game was hosting Panathinaikos and winning 1-0. In the game before, an away victory in the Super League match versus OFI with a 2-0 scoreline.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Olympiakos as they are travelling to their away game against Aris in the Super League. That match is three days after this one.
With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (12 in 5 games), Olympiakos Piraeus's attacking play is working. Olympiakos have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 0 goals.
Manchester City form and stats
Manchester's mission in Champions League last season failed in the 8th finals.The story so far for the visiting team on their Premier League travels is 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat. When we have look at the Champions League statistics, we find 3W-0D-0L. This is both home and away.
It might be tough going out on the road again for Manchester City, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-2 versus Tottenham Hotspur. A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Liverpool in the Premier League.
A new game in only three days for Manchester City, the Premier League home match versus Burnley. Busy days.
The visiting Manchester City have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 6 goals from 5 games. Manchester have conceded 5 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Manchester City - Olympiakos 3-0.Top Goalscorers
  Y. El-Arabi 5 goals |  G. Masouras 3 goals |  K. Fortounis 2 goals |
Olympiakos Piraeus missing players
Manchester City missing players
| Olympiakos Piraeus | Manchester City | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 18 | 12 | Won | W | 7 | 16 | ||
| 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 4 | 6 | ||
| 42 | 28 | Scored | S | 24 | 55 | ||
| 14 | 3 | Conceded | C | 10 | 23 | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 68% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 85% | 88% | ||
| 40% | 46% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 46% | 64% | ||
| 16% | 15% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 23% | 36% | ||
| 4% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 16% | ||
| 24% | 15% | BTTS | BTTS | 31% | 44% | ||
| 60% | 77% | Clean Sheets | C S | 46% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 23% | 12% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2.2 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.9 | 1.3 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 288 | 148 | Total Shots | T S | 235 | 432 | ||
| 129 | 71 | Shots on Target | S O | 73 | 147 | ||
| 33% | 39% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 37% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Manchester City | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 9 |
| 2 | Porto | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | Olympiakos Piraeus | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | -4 | 3 |
| 4 | Olympique Marseille | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -7 | 0 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Olympiakos Piraeus | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 19 |
| 2 | Aris | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 16 |
| 3 | PAOK | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 15 |
| 4 | AEK Athens | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | Volos NFC | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 12 |
| 6 | Atromitos | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | -4 | 12 |
| 7 | Asteras Tripolis | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 11 |
| 8 | PAS Giannina | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 9 |
| 9 | Panathinaikos | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | -1 | 9 |
| 10 | OFI | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | -6 | 6 |
| 11 | Larissa | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -3 | 5 |
| 12 | Apollon Smirnis | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -6 | 4 |
| 13 | Panaitolikos | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -8 | 4 |
| 14 | Lamia | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | -9 | 2 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Tottenham Hotspur | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 12 | 20 |
| 2 | Chelsea | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 12 | 18 |
| 3 | Leicester City | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 9 | 18 |
| 4 | Liverpool | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 17 |
| 5 | Southampton | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 16 |
| 6 | Aston Villa | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 15 |
| 7 | Everton | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 13 |
| 8 | Crystal Palace | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 13 |
| 9 | Manchester United | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | -1 | 13 |
| 10 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -1 | 13 |
| 11 | Manchester City | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | -1 | 12 |
| 12 | Arsenal | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | -1 | 12 |
| 13 | West Ham United | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 11 |
| 14 | Newcastle United | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | -5 | 11 |
| 15 | Leeds United | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 8 | -3 | 10 |
| 16 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | -2 | 9 |
| 17 | Fulham | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -8 | 4 |
| 18 | West Bromwich Albion | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 11 | -12 | 3 |
| 19 | Burnley | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -9 | 2 |
| 20 | Sheffield United | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 9 | -10 | 1 |
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