PAOK welcomes AEK Athens to this second leg of the Greek Cup Quarter-finals. It's time to find a winner and both teams know what is needed.
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.
PAOK form and stats
PAOK are steadily winning Super League games and points here at Stadio Toumbas. 6 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats is the summary from 9 games.
The PAOK goalkeeper Zivko Zivkovic is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 210 minutes without conceding a goal in the Super League.
A nice win for PAOK last time playing, versus OFI. That was also a home game and the match ended 3-0 with Świderski and Kurtić (2) scoring for the victors.
Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against Panaitolikos.The manager Lucescu will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Volos NFC in only four days.
With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (20 in 9 games), PAOK's attacking play is working. PAOK have conceded 10 in these home matches.
AEK Athens form and stats
AEK Athens was sent out of Greek Cup in the semi-finals last season, when PAOK turned out to be too strong.AEK Athens have an excellent away record in the Super League so far with 5-3-1 from 9 games.
Home advantage was not enough for AEK Athens in their previous game, as they lost their Super League-match, hosting Panaitolikos, 1-2.
Preceding that game was the away Super League victory against Lamia with the score of 2-0.The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Super League trip to Atromitos.
Athens are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 16 times in 9 away games so far. AEK Athens have conceded 10 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
PAOK-AEK Athens H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: PAOK six wins, AEK Athens one win, three draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  J. Kurtič 12 goals |   S. Araújo 6 goals |  S. Zuber 5 goals |
PAOK missing players
AEK Athens missing players
| PAOK | AEK Athens | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 8 | Won | W | 5 | 14 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 4 | 4 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Lost | L | 4 | 7 | ||
| 48 | 27 | Scored | S | 22 | 45 | ||
| 26 | 14 | Conceded | C | 19 | 27 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 84% | 85% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 85% | 76% | ||
| 56% | 54% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 62% | 64% | ||
| 32% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 38% | 28% | ||
| 16% | 23% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 15% | 12% | ||
| 56% | 54% | BTTS | BTTS | 69% | 52% | ||
| 32% | 31% | Clean Sheets | C S | 23% | 44% | ||
| 16% | 15% | Failed to Score | F T | 15% | 8% | ||
| 5.8 | 7.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.5 | 6.3 | ||
| 3.7 | 2.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 4.8 | ||
| 2.1 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 2.1 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 13 | 13.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.2 | 14.6 | ||
| 5.3 | 5.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.3 | 6 | ||
| 36% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 32% | 30% | ||
| 9 | 7.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.3 | 10.7 | ||
| 3.2 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 3.9 | ||
| 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 | 17 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 28 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 6 | 19 | 43 |
| 2 | PAOK | 17 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 36 | 20 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 16 | 34 |
| 3 | AEK Athens | 17 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 30 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 12 | 33 |
| 4 | Panathinaikos | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 27 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 27 |
| 5 | PAS Giannina | 18 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 22 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 27 |
| 6 | OFI | 18 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 21 | 19 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 26 |
| 7 | Asteras Tripolis | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 23 |
| 8 | Aris | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 22 |
| 9 | Volos NFC | 16 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 27 | 31 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 19 | -4 | 18 |
| 10 | Panaitolikos | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 18 | 30 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 18 | -12 | 18 |
| 11 | Lamia | 17 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 23 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | -8 | 14 |
| 12 | Ionikos | 17 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 16 | -9 | 14 |
| 13 | Atromitos | 16 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 33 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 21 | -18 | 10 |
| 14 | Apollon Smirnis | 15 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 26 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 17 | -19 | 9 |
