Football League: Diagoras - Veria preview and statistics

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Competition: Greece Football League
Date: Sat 04.January
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)

Diagoras will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 3 points behind Veria.

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 Veria when visiting Diagoras as the cities are 1300 kilometers apart.

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Diagoras form and stats

Diagoras have collected 9 points from their Football League home games so far after 2-3-1. Three draws in a row here for Diagoras, who might be willing to risk more at some point in hope of a win.

Diagoras are confident in defense, having played 215 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

Happy days for Diagoras in their previous game, a Football League match away at Aspropyrgos Enosis (placed 9th) that ended with a 3-0 victory. The points were shared before that, a home game that ended 0-0 versus Kavala.

Diagoras are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 8 goals in 6 games. Diagoras have only conceded 4 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Veria form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Football League travels is 2 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats.

241 minutes! That's how long the Veria goalkeeper and his defense have shut out their league opponents.

Veria are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 0-0 draw at Ionikos (placed 2nd). Before that, Veria secured a home win against Niki Volos with the score 3-0.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Veria as they have only managed to score 4 times from 6 away games in the league. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (4 so far).

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Veria - Diagoras 0-0. As for the last eight games between these two teams, there's 3 Diagoras victories, 2 draws and 3 Veria wins. 2 of these games ended with three goals or more, 6 matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

VeriaG. Bletsas
G. Bletsas
1 goals

Diagoras missing players

Veria missing players

Diagoras Veria
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
13 6 2 Played P 1 6 13
4 2 0 Won W 1 2 6
7 3 1 Drew D 0 1 4
2 1 1 Lost L 0 3 3
17 8 1 Scored S 2 4 16
9 4 2 Conceded C 0 4 8
69% 67% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 83% 85%
69% 67% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 33% 62%
31% 33% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 17% 31%
15% 17% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 8%
15% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
46% 50% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 17% 38%
54% 50% 50% Clean Sheets C S 100% 50% 46%
31% 33% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 50% 31%
 
3.8 4.8 6 Corners For (avg) C F 3 4.2 4.9
4.2 2.8 3 Corners Against (avg) C A 3 2.3 2.2
2.8 2.6 1 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 2 3.5 3.2
1 0 0 Red Cards R C 1 2 2
 
75 39 2 Total Shots T S 6 42 98
37 18 0 Shots on Target S O 3 15 36
41% 39% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 67% 27% 42%
Key stats in Football League this season:
  • Diagoras has the most scored goals in the first half (7)
  • Diagoras have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Diagoras have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Veria has the most scored goals in the second half (10)
  • Veria have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Trikala 13 8 4 1 18 8 6 4 2 0 11 3 7 4 2 1 7 5 10 28
2 Ionikos 13 7 4 2 15 7 7 4 2 1 8 3 6 3 2 1 7 4 8 25
3 Veria 13 6 4 3 16 8 7 4 3 0 12 4 6 2 1 3 4 4 8 22
4 Anagennisi Ierapetra 13 6 3 4 13 14 6 3 2 1 6 4 7 3 1 3 7 10 -1 21
5 Kavala 13 5 5 3 15 9 7 5 2 0 13 3 6 0 3 3 2 6 6 20
6 Olympiakos Volos 13 5 5 3 15 14 6 3 2 1 9 6 7 2 3 2 6 8 1 20
7 Diagoras 13 4 7 2 17 9 6 2 3 1 8 4 7 2 4 1 9 5 8 19
8 Niki Volos 13 5 3 5 15 13 7 5 1 1 13 4 6 0 2 4 2 9 2 18
9 Aspropyrgos Enosis 13 3 5 5 12 18 7 3 3 1 9 7 6 0 2 4 3 11 -6 14
10 Egaleo 13 3 4 6 9 14 7 2 1 4 5 8 6 1 3 2 4 6 -5 13
11 Ialysos 13 3 3 7 5 13 7 3 3 1 5 3 6 0 0 6 0 10 -8 12
12 Triglia FC 13 3 3 7 10 20 6 2 2 2 4 4 7 1 1 5 6 16 -10 12
13 Kalamata 13 3 2 8 13 19 6 2 1 3 8 8 7 1 1 5 5 11 -6 11
14 Thesprotos 13 3 2 8 13 20 6 3 0 3 8 6 7 0 2 5 5 14 -7 11
14 Triglia 1 0 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 4 -3 0

Read more about Football League

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.