Football League match preview and statistics: Apollon Pontou FC fight Veria

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Competition: Greece Football League
Competition: Tue 11.May
Match begins: 22:00 (UTC)

Struggling Apollon Pontou FC will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Veria in the upcoming league round. It’s 9th vs 2nd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

Insights:
  • Apollon Pontou FC have the most dropped points from leading position (5) in Football League
  • Veria have the fewest conceded goals (2) in Football League

Veria could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Football League game only two sleeps ago. That game, against Pontion Karagiannion, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Veria.

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Apollon Pontou FC form and stats

The story so far in the Football League for Apollon Pontou FC, who have the most conceded goals (7) at home in Football League, at their home stadium is 1 win, 1 draw and 3 defeats.

Preceding that match was the home game against Panserraikos that was lost 0-3.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Apollon as they are travelling to their away game against Kavala in the Football League. That match is four days after this one.

Apollon are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 5 goals in 5 games. Apollon's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 7 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Veria form and stats

As the visiting team in Football League matches, Veria, who have the fewest conceded goals (2) in Football League, have produced an overall stat of 2-2-1 so far.

The attacking players of Veria have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 197 minutes. Veria have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper. It's been 375 minutes since they last conceded in Football League.

A draw for Veria before that, at their own venue hosting Triglia FC (0-0).

A new game in only four days for Veria, the Football League home match versus Olympiakos Volos. Busy days.

Goals are few and far between in Veria's away league games. Only 2 goals from 5 travels. Veria's manager K. Georgiadis has created a great defensive setup working very nicely in away games with only 1 conceded goal. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Veria - Apollon Pontou FC 1-0. Head-to-head totals (for the last seven meetings): Apollon won four games, two matches ended with a draw and Veria has one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: two / five

Apollon Pontou FC missing players

Veria missing players

Apollon Pontou FC Veria
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
9 5 2 Played P 1 5 10
1 1 0 Won W 0 2 6
2 1 0 Drew D 1 2 3
6 3 2 Lost L 0 1 1
6 5 0 Scored S 0 2 11
13 7 4 Conceded C 0 1 2
89% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 60% 70%
44% 60% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 30%
44% 60% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 20%
22% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 10%
11% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
22% 20% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 10%
22% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 80% 80%
67% 60% 100% Failed to Score F T 100% 60% 40%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
3 2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 3 1.8
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
3 4 4 Shots (avg) S ( 0 10 11.4
0.5 0.5 0.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4 5.2
50% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 12% 23%
Key stats in Football League this season:
  • Apollon Pontou FC have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Apollon Pontou FC have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Apollon Pontou FC have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Veria have scored away.
  • Apollon Pontou FC have the fewest scored goals in the second half (2) in Football League
  • Apollon Pontou FC have the most conceded goals (7) at home in Football League
  • Apollon Pontou FC have the most dropped points from leading position (5) in Football League
  • Apollon Pontou FC haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Veria have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Veria have the fewest conceded goals (1) away in Football League
  • Veria have the fewest conceded goals (2) in Football League
  • Veria have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (0) in Football League
  • Veria have the most clean sheets (8) in Football League

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Kavala 10 8 1 1 22 8 5 4 1 0 12 3 5 4 0 1 10 5 14 25
2 Veria 10 6 3 1 11 2 5 4 1 0 9 1 5 2 2 1 2 1 9 21
3 Panserraikos 9 6 1 2 14 5 4 3 0 1 7 3 5 3 1 1 7 2 9 19
4 Pierikos 10 4 2 4 11 12 5 3 1 1 7 2 5 1 1 3 4 10 -1 14
5 Olympiakos Volos 10 4 1 5 8 10 5 2 0 3 3 5 5 2 1 2 5 5 -2 13
6 Triglia FC 10 2 6 2 6 6 5 2 3 0 6 3 5 0 3 2 0 3 0 12
7 Thesprotos 8 3 2 3 6 7 4 2 1 1 4 2 4 1 1 2 2 5 -1 11
8 Almopos 10 2 3 5 10 14 5 2 2 1 8 4 5 0 1 4 2 10 -4 9
9 Apollon Pontou FC 9 1 2 6 6 13 5 1 1 3 5 7 4 0 1 3 1 6 -7 5
10 Pontion Karagiannion 10 0 3 7 4 21 5 0 2 3 1 6 5 0 1 4 3 15 -17 3

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The Football League is the second highest league in Greek football. It has 16 teams playing two fixtures against each other in a season from August to May. The top two teams in the league table are promoted while the bottom four are relegated. The name Football League was introduced in 2010.