It's Europa League time and the hopeful contenders are Olympiakos Piraeus and Slovan Bratislava

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Competition: Europe Europa League
Competition: Thu 04.August
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Georgios Karaiskáki (32115 seats)

It's game one of two in the Europa League as Olympiakos Piraeus host Slovan Bratislava. This is a 3rd Qualifying Round fixture played over two legs and nothing will be decided tonight.

Slovan Bratislava have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1600 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

Olympiakos Piraeus and Slovan Bratislava should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Olympiakos Piraeus form and stats

Olympiakos Piraeus participated in Europa League the last season, where they reached the knockout round play-offs and lost against Atalanta.

The Olympiakos fans got no joy from their last match, a Champions League duel also played here at Stadio Georgios Karaiskáki: A 0-4 defeat against Maccabi Haifa.

Olympiakos Piraeus 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 7 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 6, drew 1 and lost 0.

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Slovan Bratislava form and stats

They also participated in Europa League last season. This ended in the play-offs, when Olympiakos Piraeus drew the shortest straw.

It's not happening yet for Slovan Bratislava on their Super Liga travels, with zero points from their first 2 away games. Maybe today will be different?

Slovan Bratislava play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 2-4 to Zemplin Michalovce. Leading 4-2 was not enough for Bratislava in their fight with Zemplin Michalovce last time out. Happy faces soon turned sour as mistakes flourished in what ended up a 2-4 loss.

Prior to that match, a home win 4-2 against Zemplin Michalovce in the Super Liga.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Slovan Bratislava played away with similar odds. This revealed 4 games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 0 times, 1 were draw and the home team won as expected 3 times.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Skalica in just three days.

It's early days yet, but Slovan Bratislava has scored 3 and conceded 6 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).

Head 2 Head

Head-to-head data (for the prior four meetings): Olympiakos Piraeus won three games, one match ended with a tie and Slovan Bratislava managed zero wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: two / two

Top Goalscorers

Slovan BratislavaD. Hrnčár
D. Hrnčár
2 goals
Slovan BratislavaA. Green
A. Green
2 goals
Slovan BratislavaU. Agbo
U. Agbo
1 goals

Olympiakos Piraeus missing players

Slovan Bratislava missing players

Olympiakos Piraeus Slovan Bratislava
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 11   Played P   14 25
9 5   Won W   5 12
8 4   Drew D   4 6
8 2   Lost L   5 7
31 16   Scored S   17 42
33 13   Conceded C   17 30
92% 91%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   79% 84%
76% 73%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   71% 76%
48% 45%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   57% 64%
24% 27%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   21% 36%
12% 18%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   7% 16%
68% 64%   BTTS BTTS   43% 52%
20% 27%   Clean Sheets C S   43% 40%
20% 18%   Failed to Score F T   36% 24%
 
5 6.7   Corners for (avg) C F   3.4 4.4
3.8 3.1   Corners against (avg) C A   4.2 3.8
2 2.3   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.4 1.7
0 0   Red cards R C   1 1
 
10.6 14.6   Shots (avg) S (   10.8 12.6
4 5.9   Shots on Target (avg) S O   4.8 5.2
33% 28%   Goal Efficiency G E   24% 33%
 
9.7 9.8   Shots against (avg) S A   13 12.5
3.6 3.8   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   5 4.8

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Zemplin Michalovce 3 2 1 0 7 3 2 2 0 0 6 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 4 7
2 Zilina 3 1 2 0 5 2 2 1 1 0 5 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 5
3 Ruzomberok 2 1 1 0 4 2 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 4
4 Podbrezova 2 1 1 0 4 3 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 4
5 DAC 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 4
6 Skalica 3 1 1 1 4 4 2 1 0 1 2 2 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 4
7 Slovan Bratislava 3 1 0 2 7 6 1 1 0 0 4 0 2 0 0 2 3 6 1 3
8 Spartak Trnava 2 1 0 1 3 2 2 1 0 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
9 Banska Bystrica 3 1 0 2 3 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 3 7 -4 3
10 Liptovsky Mikulas 2 0 1 1 2 3 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 1
11 Zlate Moravce 2 0 1 1 2 4 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 1
12 Trencin 3 0 1 2 0 6 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 6 -6 1

Read more about Europa League

The UEFA Europa League, abbreviated as UEL and commonly referred to as just the Europa League, is an annual football club competition organised by UEFA. It is the second-tier competition for football clubs in Europa, beneath the UEFA Champions League in value and importance. Teams qualify through their performance in their national leagues and cup competitions. Some teams qualify from the Champions League; more precisely the teams who are knocked out in the playoff qualifying round and the third-place finishers of the group stage. The winner of the Europa League qualifies for the Champions League in their next competitive season.