AEK Athens supporters put their faith in manager Almeyda to deliver victory against Olympiakos Piraeus

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Competition: Greece Super League
Competition: Wed 03.May
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Olympiako Stadio Spyros Louis (69638 seats)

AEK Athens and Olympiakos Piraeus are both high-flying in the Super League with their 2nd and 3rd spots respectively. This could be a wonderful game!

Insights:
  • AEK Athens is in the best form (5-1-0) in Super League
  • Olympiakos Piraeus have the most scored goals (53) in Super League

It's no vacation for neither AEK Athens nor Olympiakos Piraeus as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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AEK Athens form and stats

Home games in the Super League have been a walk in the park for AEK Athens so far, with 33 points won from 13 matches; 11 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses. Athens has recorded two wins in a row here at Olympiako Stadio Spyros Louis, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.

The AEK Athens goalkeeper Giorgos Athanasiadis is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 216 minutes without conceding a goal in the Super League.

The home team returns to Olympiako Stadio Spyros Louis after drawing with Panathinaikos on their last time out; the game ended 0-0. Moukoudi, defender, was given a rating of 7.31/10 in that game, top of the team. Moukoudi hit one key pass and won 4 of 11 duels.

Before that game, the 4-0 home victory against PAOK.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Athens handle that role? We have found 8 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 3 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats.

It should be added that a look at the 14 latest league fixtures shows that 11 of them qualified as a both teams to score: NO result (only one or none of the teams scored a goal).

The manager Almeyda will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Aris in only four days.

Goals decide football matches and AEK Athens are scoring many of them at home; 29 on target from 13 league matches. Athens have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only {6 goals}.

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Olympiakos Piraeus form and stats

Olympiakos Piraeus have an excellent away record in the Super League so far with 7-5-1 from 13 games. The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Olympiakos Piraeus have lost on their last two travels.

Olympiakos are travelling after their nice 5-0 home win in the fixture against Volos NFC. That win felt sweet as this club had gone three league matches without victory. As mentioned above, Olympiakos Piraeus was the only team on the pitch versus Volos NFC in their previous game, winning 5-0. This could be a tougher task. Bakambu has scored at least one goal for this team three games in a row. The efficiency! Midfield player Fortounis was the top player of the team with a match rating of 8.32/10. Fortounis signed up for two assists, hit two key passes and had 28 successful passes (of 34 total).

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Aris wasn't a success with a 1-2 loss.

Goal-happy betting people should observe that 10 of this club's 12 latest league rounds have ended with three goals or more.

A quick return to home after this game, as Olympiakos are hosting Panathinaikos in the Super League only four days away.

Olympiakos Piraeus are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 22 times in 13 away games so far. It's not easy to score on Olympiakos Piraeus as they have only conceded 8 goals from these away games. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Olympiakos Piraeus - Athens 1-3 was the output when these two sides formerly met, some time ago this season. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: two - two - six (AEK Athens wins - draws - Olympiakos Piraeus wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Olympiakos PiraeusC. Bakambu
C. Bakambu
18 goals
AEK AthensL. Garcia
L. Garcia
14 goals
Olympiakos PiraeusP. Mas Jaume
P. Mas Jaume
9 goals

AEK Athens missing players

Olympiakos Piraeus missing players

AEK Athens Olympiakos Piraeus
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
33 16 4 Played P 3 16 33
24 13 3 Won W 0 8 19
4 1 1 Drew D 2 5 9
5 2 0 Lost L 1 3 5
63 36 7 Scored S 1 26 68
16 7 0 Conceded C 3 12 24
91% 94% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 88% 88%
73% 75% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 81% 82%
48% 56% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 55%
21% 31% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 19% 33%
6% 12% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 12%
27% 25% 0% BTTS BTTS 33% 44% 45%
67% 69% 100% Clean Sheets C S 33% 50% 52%
15% 12% 25% Failed to Score F T 67% 19% 15%
 
6.3 7.8 6.8 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4.2 4.9
2.5 2 3.2 Corners against (avg) C A 3.7 3.9 3.5
2.1 2 1.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.3 1.9 1.7
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
16.9 19.6 16 Shots (avg) S ( 11.7 13.8 15.3
5.2 6.6 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 4.3 5
37% 34% 35% Goal Efficiency G E 17% 38% 41%
 
6.5 5.6 4.8 Shots against (avg) S A 13 9.3 8.4
1.5 1.4 1 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 3.1 2.8
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • AEK Athens have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • AEK Athens have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • AEK Athens have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (7) in Super League
  • AEK Athens have the most points (33) at home in Super League
  • AEK Athens have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • AEK Athens have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • AEK Athens is in the best form (5-1-0) in Super League
  • Olympiakos Piraeus have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Olympiakos Piraeus have the most scored goals (53) in Super League
  • Olympiakos Piraeus have the most scored goals in the second half (39) in Super League
  • Olympiakos Piraeus have the the best goal difference (+39) in Super 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 Panathinaikos 26 19 4 3 38 12 13 10 2 1 19 6 13 9 2 2 19 6 26 61
2 AEK Athens 26 19 2 5 51 14 13 11 0 2 29 6 13 8 2 3 22 8 37 59
3 Olympiakos Piraeus 26 16 8 2 53 14 13 9 3 1 31 6 13 7 5 1 22 8 39 56
4 PAOK 26 15 9 2 43 15 13 9 3 1 24 7 13 6 6 1 19 8 28 54
5 Aris 26 12 4 10 38 24 13 9 2 2 26 9 13 3 2 8 12 15 14 40
6 Volos NFC 26 11 6 9 31 38 13 5 2 6 17 25 13 6 4 3 14 13 -7 39
7 Panaitolikos 26 7 8 11 26 38 13 3 4 6 10 17 13 4 4 5 16 21 -12 29
8 Atromitos 26 7 8 11 25 29 13 5 5 3 13 10 13 2 3 8 12 19 -4 29
9 OFI 26 6 8 12 23 34 13 2 4 7 6 17 13 4 4 5 17 17 -11 26
10 Asteras Tripolis 26 4 13 9 19 30 13 4 8 1 12 7 13 0 5 8 7 23 -11 25
11 PAS Giannina 26 4 11 11 24 41 13 3 6 4 13 19 13 1 5 7 11 22 -17 23
12 Ionikos 26 4 6 16 16 42 13 2 5 6 9 19 13 2 1 10 7 23 -26 18
13 Lamia 26 2 11 13 13 45 13 2 4 7 9 25 13 0 7 6 4 20 -32 17
14 Levadiakos 26 3 8 15 14 38 13 3 5 5 9 14 13 0 3 10 5 24 -24 17

Read more about Super League

The Super League is the highest level of football in Greece. The league has 16 teams playing two fixtures against each other, for a total of 30 games each. The season runs from August to May to decide a final league table. The “big three” (Olympiacos, Panathinaikos and AEK Athens; all from Athens) dominate this league.