Football League match preview: Thesprotos versus Kavala

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Competition: Greece Football League
Date: Sun 09.February
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)

Thesprotos will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 11 points behind Kavala.

Thesprotos and Kavala 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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Thesprotos form and stats

4 victories, 0 draws and 5 defeats. That’s what Thesprotos have to build on here in the Football League.

A strong away win for Thesprotos against Triglia FC the last match. Before that game, the 4-1 home victory against Olympiakos Volos.

Thesprotos are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 13 goals in 9 games. Thesprotos's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 10 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Kavala form and stats

The visitors, who have the most clean sheets (11) in Football League, are W2-D4-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Football League.

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

Kavala delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against Trikala (placed 1st) in their previous match; a Football League game. Before that one, a nice away victory 2-0 at Veria.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Kavala as they have only managed to score 6 times from 9 away games in the league. It's not easy to score on Kavala as they have only conceded 7 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

Kavala - Thesprotos 4-1 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season.

Thesprotos missing players

Kavala missing players

Thesprotos Kavala
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
18 9 3 Played P 3 9 18
5 4 0 Won W 0 2 7
3 0 0 Drew D 1 4 8
10 5 3 Lost L 2 3 3
20 13 1 Scored S 2 6 19
25 10 5 Conceded C 4 7 10
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 56% 56%
67% 67% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 44% 44%
44% 56% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 22% 28%
22% 22% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 11% 17%
17% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 11% 17%
56% 44% 33% BTTS BTTS 33% 22% 28%
17% 22% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 56% 61%
28% 33% 67% Failed to Score F T 67% 67% 56%
 
3.2 3.6 4.5 Corners For (avg) C F 4.7 3.9 4.6
5.3 5.1 7.5 Corners Against (avg) C A 7.7 4.7 4.2
2.9 2.6 3 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 0.7 1.4 2.2
3 1 0 Red Cards R C 0 0 1
 
119 69 15 Total Shots T S 12 54 114
44 27 4 Shots on Target S O 6 24 47
41% 44% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 25% 32%
Key stats in Football League this season:
  • Kavala has the most clean sheets (11)
  • Thesprotos have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Thesprotos have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Kavala have scored away.
  • Thesprotos haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 18 10 6 2 23 11 9 6 2 1 14 4 9 4 4 1 9 7 12 36
2 Ionikos 18 8 7 3 19 11 9 5 3 1 10 4 9 3 4 2 9 7 8 31
3 Veria 18 8 6 4 20 12 9 5 3 1 13 6 9 3 3 3 7 6 8 30
4 Kavala 18 7 8 3 19 10 9 5 4 0 13 3 9 2 4 3 6 7 9 29
5 Niki Volos 18 8 5 5 21 14 10 6 3 1 16 5 8 2 2 4 5 9 7 29
6 Olympiakos Volos 18 7 6 5 25 23 8 4 3 1 15 9 10 3 3 4 10 14 2 27
7 Diagoras 18 6 8 4 20 12 8 2 4 2 8 5 10 4 4 2 12 7 8 26
8 Anagennisi Ierapetra 17 6 6 5 14 17 8 3 3 2 7 7 9 3 3 3 7 10 -3 24
9 Aspropyrgos Enosis 18 4 8 6 19 26 9 3 5 1 13 11 9 1 3 5 6 15 -7 20
10 Thesprotos 18 5 3 10 20 25 9 4 0 5 13 10 9 1 3 5 7 15 -5 18
11 Egaleo 18 4 6 8 11 18 9 2 2 5 5 10 9 2 4 3 6 8 -7 18
12 Ialysos 17 4 5 8 8 17 10 4 5 1 8 5 7 0 0 7 0 12 -9 17
13 Kalamata 18 4 3 11 14 23 9 3 1 5 9 11 9 1 2 6 5 12 -9 15
14 Triglia 1 0 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 4 -3 0
14 Triglia FC 18 3 5 10 13 27 9 2 3 4 5 7 9 1 2 6 8 20 -14 14

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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.