It's game one of two in the Europa Conference League as Midtjylland host PAOK. This is a Knockout Round Play-offs fixture played over two legs and nothing will be decided tonight.
These teams have little in common geographically as PAOK have to travel 2500 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Super League game only four days ago.
Midtjylland form and stats
Midtjylland are steadily winning Superliga games and points here at MCH Arena. 6 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats is the summary from 8 games.
The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Midtjylland have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found ten games) they have won four times, drawn two and lost four.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Midtjylland, as the Superliga home game vs AaB is only three days away.
Goals decide football matches and Midtjylland are scoring many of them at home; 19 on target from 8 league matches. From these home matches, Midtjylland have conceded only 7 goals.
PAOK form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Lincoln Red Imps, København, Bohemians, Slovan Bratislava and Rijeka in order to reach knockout round play-offs of Europa Conference League.PAOK's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed PAOK collect 21 points from their 10 away matches in the Super League. 7 victories and 0 draws have created these points (and only 3 defeats). The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Europa Conference League stats, they have 5 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses both home and away.
PAOK are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the fixture against Atromitos.
PAOK are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is two wins, one draw and two defeats. From a total of five matches.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the PAOK manager Lucescu as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Aris.
The PAOK manager Lucescu has got the team scoring on the road, with 22 away goals in 10 league matches.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  J. Kurtič 14 goals |   J. dos Santos Júnior 7 goals |  E. da Silva Ferreira 5 goals |
Midtjylland missing players
PAOK missing players
| Midtjylland | PAOK | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 8 | Won | W | 6 | 15 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 3 | 5 | ||
| 52 | 31 | Scored | S | 21 | 49 | ||
| 28 | 16 | Conceded | C | 11 | 25 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 92% | ||
| 80% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 91% | 84% | ||
| 60% | 69% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 64% | 60% | ||
| 48% | 54% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 36% | 32% | ||
| 24% | 31% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 16% | ||
| 60% | 77% | BTTS | BTTS | 55% | 56% | ||
| 32% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 36% | ||
| 12% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 18% | 16% | ||
| 5.4 | 5.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 6.3 | ||
| 3.5 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.4 | 2.4 | ||
| 2 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 2.1 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 12.9 | 12.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.3 | 14 | ||
| 5.5 | 5.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.9 | 5.4 | ||
| 37% | 42% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 39% | 37% | ||
| 9.2 | 8.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.5 | 8 | ||
| 3.5 | 3.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.1 | 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 | Midtjylland | 17 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 31 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 15 | 35 |
| 2 | København | 17 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 34 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 6 | 21 | 33 |
| 3 | Brøndby | 17 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 25 | 20 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 30 |
| 4 | AaB | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 27 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 28 |
| 5 | Randers | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 23 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 28 |
| 6 | Silkeborg | 17 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 26 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 25 |
| 7 | AGF | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 | -4 | 21 |
| 8 | Viborg | 17 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 26 | 27 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 14 | -1 | 20 |
| 9 | OB | 17 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 25 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 1 | 19 |
| 10 | Nordsjælland | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 20 | 31 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 17 | -11 | 16 |
| 11 | SønderjyskE | 17 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 33 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 17 | -22 | 10 |
| 12 | Vejle | 17 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 16 | 41 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 25 | -25 | 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 | Olympiakos Piraeus | 22 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 38 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 21 | 7 | 27 | 56 |
| 2 | PAOK | 22 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 46 | 22 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 22 | 10 | 24 | 47 |
| 3 | AEK Athens | 22 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 37 | 23 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 18 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 13 | 14 | 39 |
| 4 | Panathinaikos | 23 | 11 | 3 | 9 | 36 | 20 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 36 |
| 5 | PAS Giannina | 23 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 27 | 22 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 36 |
| 6 | OFI | 23 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 31 | 30 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 19 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 33 |
| 7 | Asteras Tripolis | 21 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 23 | 18 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 32 |
| 8 | Aris | 22 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 21 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 29 |
| 9 | Volos NFC | 22 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 34 | 39 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 17 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 22 | -5 | 28 |
| 10 | Panaitolikos | 23 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 24 | 38 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 23 | -14 | 25 |
| 11 | Ionikos | 22 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 20 | 31 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 19 | -11 | 21 |
| 12 | Lamia | 22 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 30 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 13 | -12 | 18 |
| 13 | Atromitos | 21 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 21 | 41 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 17 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 24 | -20 | 14 |
| 14 | Apollon Smirnis | 22 | 1 | 7 | 14 | 7 | 38 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 24 | -31 | 10 |
