It's Champions League time and the hopeful contenders are Olympiakos Piraeus and Omonia Nicosia

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Competition: Europe Champions League
Competition: Wed 23.September
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Georgios Karaiskáki (32115 seats)

It's game one of two in the Champions League as Olympiakos Piraeus host Omonia Nicosia. This is a Play-offs fixture played over two legs and nothing will be decided tonight.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

It's quite the trip for Omonia Nicosia when visiting Olympiakos Piraeus as the cities are 2100 kilometers apart.

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Olympiakos Piraeus form and stats

Last season their Champions League adventure ended in the group stage.

1 victory, 0 draws and 0 defeats. That’s what Olympiakos Piraeus have to build on here at Stadio Georgios Karaiskáki in the Super League. The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at Stadio Georgios Karaiskáki.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Jose Pedro Malheiro de Sa not having conceded a league goal in 180 minutes.

The Olympiakos supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Asteras Tripolis in Super League and win 3-0. Before that match, a Greek Cup win away at AEK Athens.

Olympiakos are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found seven matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won six, drew one and lost zero.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Olympiakos Piraeus as they have a new game in only three days, a Super League match thankfully also at home. Panaitolikos are visiting.

Olympiakos Piraeus has scored 3 goals so far and conceded 0 goals from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.

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Omonia Nicosia form and stats

The traveling awayteam has defeated Crvena Zvezda, Legia Warszawa and Ararat-Armenia in order to reach Play-offs of Champions League.

Omonia Nicosia are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the 1. Division, having played 2 games and collected 2 points (0 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses). Total Champions League statistics for Omonia Nicosia: 2 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses. Visiting Nicosia has seen their last two away games both end with a tied score and one point each.

Nicosia's last game was the home draw against Crvena Zvezda (after extra-time, 4-2 on penalties) (1-1). Before that, Nicosia travelled to Anorthosis and returned home with a draw after the 1. Division game finished 1-1.

You'll want to know how Nicosia managed when outsiders such as today. Our database found three similar matches resulting in zero away wins, one draw and two home wins.

It's early days yet, but Omonia Nicosia has scored 3 and conceded 3 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

Olympiakos PiraeusG. Masouras
G. Masouras
2 goals
Omonia NicosiaÉ. Bauthéac
É. Bauthéac
2 goals
Olympiakos PiraeusK. Fortounis
K. Fortounis
1 goals

Olympiakos Piraeus missing players

Omonia Nicosia missing players

Olympiakos Piraeus Omonia Nicosia
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 13   Played P   13 25
18 10   Won W   6 14
3 1   Drew D   6 8
4 2   Lost L   1 3
46 29   Scored S   21 48
17 8   Conceded C   7 16
92% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   85% 88%
64% 85%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   77% 72%
52% 62%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   31% 44%
28% 31%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   15% 20%
12% 8%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   8% 16%
40% 38%   BTTS BTTS   38% 44%
48% 46%   Clean Sheets C S   62% 52%
20% 15%   Failed to Score F T   15% 16%
 
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   1.9 1.8
2 1   Red cards R C   0 0
 
268 154   Total Shots T S   130 248
128 77   Shots on Target S O   59 111
36% 38%   Goal Efficiency G E   36% 33%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 PAOK 2 1 1 0 2 1 2 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4
2 Olympiakos Piraeus 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
3 Aris 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
4 Volos NFC 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 3
5 Asteras Tripolis 2 1 0 1 1 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 -2 3
6 OFI 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
7 Panaitolikos 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
8 Atromitos 2 0 1 1 1 3 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 -2 1
12 Larissa 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
13 Panathinaikos 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
14 Lamia 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 -2 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 Apollon 3 2 1 0 8 1 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 6 0 7 7
2 AEK Larnaca 3 2 1 0 5 1 1 1 0 0 3 0 2 1 1 0 2 1 4 7
3 Anorthosis 3 2 1 0 5 2 2 1 1 0 4 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 7
4 Doxa 3 2 1 0 5 3 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 1 1 0 3 2 2 7
5 AEL 3 2 0 1 4 3 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 1 0 1 2 2 1 6
6 Olympiakos 4 2 0 2 5 5 2 0 0 2 2 4 2 2 0 0 3 1 0 6
7 Omonia Nicosia 3 1 2 0 4 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 3 3 1 5
8 APOEL 3 1 1 1 3 5 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 0 0 1 0 3 -2 4
9 Nea Salamis 3 1 0 2 4 4 2 1 0 1 3 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 3
10 Ethnikos Achna 3 1 0 2 3 4 2 1 0 1 2 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 3
11 Ermis 4 1 0 3 3 10 2 0 0 2 0 7 2 1 0 1 3 3 -7 3
12 Karmiotissa 3 0 2 1 2 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 2 3 -1 2
13 Paphos 3 0 1 2 2 4 2 0 1 1 2 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 -2 1
14 Enosis 3 0 0 3 1 6 1 0 0 1 1 2 2 0 0 2 0 4 -5 0

Read more about Champions League

The UEFA Champions League is the major international club football tournament in Europe. The competition begins already in late June and lasts for almost a year, ending with the final played in late May or early June. After several qualifying rounds the group stage is where the “true” Champions League begins for many viewers. Eight groups with four teams each battle through six rounds to qualify for the knock-out phase. Then a round of 16, quarterfinals and then semifinals needs to be won before a place in the final is secured.