Olympiakos Piraeus fearless before departure for AEK Athens clash Super League preview: Can AEK Athens edge out victory against Olympiakos Piraeus?

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Competition: Greece Super League
Competition: Sun 12.March
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Olympiako Stadio Spyros Louis (69638 seats)

What a match, with AEK Athens positioned 1st and Olympiakos Piraeus in 3rd. Here's all you need to know!

Insights:
  • AEK Athens have the fewest conceded goals (11) in Super League
  • Olympiakos Piraeus have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.

These are hustling days for the hosts, as they had a match only four days ago in the Super League. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Atromitos.

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AEK Athens form and stats

11-0-1 is the performance here at Olympiako Stadio Spyros Louis so far in the Super League, giving AEK Athens a total of 33 from their 12 games here. Outstanding results! The AEK Athens fans aren't used to losing league-games here at Olympiako Stadio Spyros Louis and will expect new points from this game. Athens has played eleven games in a row here without a defeat.

AEK Athens are confident in defense, having played 298 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

It's back home for AEK Athens, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Atromitos away with the result 1-0. Zuber found the net in that victory. Defender Sidibé got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.72/10. Sidibé hit the woodwork once, served one assist, hit one key pass and won 6 of 12 duels.

In the preceding match a 3-0 victory visiting OFI.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Athens handle that role? We have found 6 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat.

It should be considered that a peek at the 19 most recent league fixtures shows that 15 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the sides scored a goal).

The AEK Athens manager Almeyda has got the team scoring with 28 from 12 home games in the league. Defensively AEK Athens have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (3 in 12 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Olympiakos Piraeus form and stats

Playing away, Olympiakos Piraeus have won 6 games, drawn 5 and suffered 1 defeat in the Super League this season. In general it has been a productive period now for Olympiakos Piraeus as they haven't lost any of their last 17 games.

The Olympiakos goalkeeper Alexandros Paschalakis is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 310 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

The club members enjoyed Olympiakos Piraeus's previous fixture versus Levadiakos (placed 14th), a 6-0 win played at home. As you can tell from the results above, Olympiakos Piraeus was very dominant against Levadiakos, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 6-0 (!) with Hwang, Bakambu, Biel (2) and Canós (2) providing the goals. Attacker Fortounis got a player rating of 8.42 in the game. "Man of the match" Fortounis signed up for three assists, hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 4 times and had 37 successful passes (of 46 total).

A 0-0 draw was the result before that, hosting Panathinaikos.

The travelling fans enjoy Olympiakos's attacking play in away games, having scored 19 goals in 12 league matches away. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (7 so far).

Head 2 Head

Olympiakos Piraeus - AEK Athens 0-0 was the end result in these squads' previous head to head game, played this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's one AEK Athens victory, three draws and six Olympiakos Piraeus wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less. Arabi likes to play against Athens and have scored 8 goals in these matches.

Top Goalscorers

Olympiakos PiraeusC. Bakambu
C. Bakambu
12 goals
AEK AthensL. Garcia
L. Garcia
11 goals
Olympiakos PiraeusP. Mas Jaume
P. Mas Jaume
8 goals

AEK Athens missing players

Olympiakos Piraeus missing players

AEK Athens Olympiakos Piraeus
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
25 12 2 Played P 2 12 25
19 11 2 Won W 0 6 15
2 0 0 Drew D 2 5 8
4 1 0 Lost L 0 1 2
50 28 3 Scored S 1 19 50
11 3 0 Conceded C 1 7 13
96% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 83% 84%
80% 75% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 75% 76%
48% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 42% 44%
12% 17% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 17% 24%
8% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 12%
24% 17% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 42% 40%
68% 75% 100% Clean Sheets C S 50% 58% 60%
12% 8% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 17% 16%
 
6.9 8.3 8 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.5 5
2.6 2.3 4.5 Corners against (avg) C A 3 3.8 3.4
1.8 1.8 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.5 1.7 1.7
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
17.6 20.7 15.5 Shots (avg) S ( 11.5 14.5 15.1
5.3 6.8 4.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1 4.3 4.8
38% 34% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 37% 41%
 
6.6 5.5 5 Shots against (avg) S A 14.5 9.5 8.6
1.4 1.3 0.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.5 2.8 2.4
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 (11) in Super League
  • AEK Athens have the fewest conceded goals (3) at home in Super League
  • AEK Athens have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (3) in Super League
  • AEK Athens have the most clean sheets (17) in Super League
  • AEK Athens have the most points (33) at home in Super League
  • AEK Athens have the most scored goals in the second half (30) in Super League
  • AEK Athens have the the best goal difference (+39) 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 haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • AEK Athens is in the best form (5-0-1) in Super League
  • Olympiakos Piraeus have scored at least twice as many goals 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 AEK Athens 25 19 2 4 50 11 12 11 0 1 28 3 13 8 2 3 22 8 39 59
2 Panathinaikos 25 18 4 3 36 12 13 10 2 1 19 6 12 8 2 2 17 6 24 58
3 Olympiakos Piraeus 25 15 8 2 50 13 13 9 3 1 31 6 12 6 5 1 19 7 37 53
4 PAOK 25 14 9 2 42 15 13 9 3 1 24 7 12 5 6 1 18 8 27 51
5 Volos NFC 25 11 6 8 31 37 12 5 2 5 17 24 13 6 4 3 14 13 -6 39
6 Aris 25 11 4 10 35 23 12 8 2 2 23 8 13 3 2 8 12 15 12 37
7 Atromitos 25 7 8 10 25 27 12 5 5 2 13 8 13 2 3 8 12 19 -2 29
8 Panaitolikos 25 7 7 11 25 37 12 3 3 6 9 16 13 4 4 5 16 21 -12 28
9 OFI 25 6 8 11 23 32 13 2 4 7 6 17 12 4 4 4 17 15 -9 26
10 Asteras Tripolis 25 4 13 8 19 29 13 4 8 1 12 7 12 0 5 7 7 22 -10 25
11 PAS Giannina 25 4 11 10 23 38 13 3 6 4 13 19 12 1 5 6 10 19 -15 23
12 Lamia 25 2 10 13 12 44 13 2 4 7 9 25 12 0 6 6 3 19 -32 16
13 Ionikos 25 3 6 16 15 42 12 1 5 6 8 19 13 2 1 10 7 23 -27 15
14 Levadiakos 25 2 8 15 12 38 12 2 5 5 7 14 13 0 3 10 5 24 -26 14

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.