A trophy cabinet can never have too much silverware and both Olympiakos Piraeus and Panaitolikos know what's at stake in this second leg of the Greek Cup Quarter-finals clash.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Olympiakos Piraeus form and stats
Olympiakos Piraeus was eliminated in the final last season in the Greek Cup.This stadium, Stadio Georgios Karaiskáki, has been a fortress for Olympiakos Piraeus in the Super League so far this season with the win-draw-loss statistic 8-2-0.
A good away victory last time out for Olympiakos Piraeus, who won 3-0 against Ionikos.
Previous to that game, a Super League home match hosting Panaitolikos in a game that was won 3-1.The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Olympiakos home games with this odds we find seven games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in six wins, one draw and zero defeats. Looking at the victories, five matches were won by at least two goals.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Olympiakos Piraeus as they have a new game in only four days, a Super League match thankfully also at home. AEK Athens are visiting.
The Olympiakos fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 16 goals in 10 league matches. Olympiakos Piraeus have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 4 goals.
Panaitolikos form and stats
Panaitolikos's mission in Greek Cup last season failed in the 3rd round against Olympiakos Piraeus.4-1-6 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Panaitolikos in their Super League matches away.
Home advantage was not enough for Panaitolikos in their previous game as they lost hosting PAS Giannina, 0-1.
Prior to that match, the Panaitolikos manager Anastasiou faced defeat when travelling to Olympiakos Piraeus and losing 1-3.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Panaitolikos played away with similar odds. This revealed seven games. The visitors overcame the odds to win one time, one were draw and the home team won as expected five times.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Panaitolikos manager Anastasiou as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Apollon Smirnis.
Panaitolikos have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 11 league away games 14 goals have been scored. Panaitolikos have conceded 23 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
The last head to head game ended Panaitolikos - Olympiakos 2-1, played this season. Last ten meetings with these participants: Olympiakos Piraeus won nine, Panaitolikos were winners in one and we saw zero draws. eight games with over 2,5 goals, two matches with under 2,5 goals.Top Goalscorers
  Y. El-Arabi 9 goals |  F. das Chagas Soares dos Santos 7 goals |  G. Masouras 5 goals |
Olympiakos Piraeus missing players
Panaitolikos missing players
| Olympiakos Piraeus | Panaitolikos | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 16 | 9 | Won | W | 6 | 10 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 6 | 12 | ||
| 40 | 16 | Scored | S | 17 | 29 | ||
| 20 | 5 | Conceded | C | 24 | 40 | ||
| 88% | 91% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 68% | 55% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 85% | 76% | ||
| 56% | 36% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 69% | 64% | ||
| 20% | 9% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 31% | 24% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 15% | 8% | ||
| 48% | 36% | BTTS | BTTS | 62% | 60% | ||
| 48% | 64% | Clean Sheets | C S | 8% | 16% | ||
| 16% | 9% | Failed to Score | F T | 31% | 28% | ||
| 4.8 | 4.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 3.3 | ||
| 4.4 | 3.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.8 | 4.4 | ||
| 1.4 | 0.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.4 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 13.6 | 15.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.2 | 10.1 | ||
| 4.3 | 4.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 3.8 | ||
| 37% | 34% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 35% | 31% | ||
| 9.2 | 7.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14.3 | 12.8 | ||
| 2.9 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.9 | 4.9 | ||
| 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 | 21 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 37 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 21 | 7 | 26 | 53 |
| 2 | PAOK | 21 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 45 | 22 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 22 | 10 | 23 | 44 |
| 3 | AEK Athens | 21 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 37 | 22 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 18 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 12 | 15 | 39 |
| 4 | PAS Giannina | 22 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 25 | 22 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 33 |
| 5 | Asteras Tripolis | 20 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 21 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 32 |
| 6 | Panathinaikos | 21 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 31 | 20 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 14 | 11 | 30 |
| 7 | Aris | 21 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 21 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 29 |
| 8 | OFI | 21 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 27 | 27 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 29 |
| 9 | Volos NFC | 21 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 33 | 37 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 17 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 20 | -4 | 28 |
| 10 | Panaitolikos | 21 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 23 | 38 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 23 | -15 | 21 |
| 11 | Lamia | 19 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 24 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 7 | -7 | 18 |
| 12 | Ionikos | 21 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 29 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 17 | -12 | 18 |
| 13 | Atromitos | 18 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 37 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 23 | -21 | 10 |
| 14 | Apollon Smirnis | 20 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 7 | 35 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 24 | -28 | 9 |
