AEK Athens vs Olympiakos Piraeus match preview

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Competition: Greece Super League
Competition: Sun 21.November
Match begins: 17:30 (UTC)
Venue: Olympiako Stadio Spyros Louis (69638 seats)

A total of nine rounds of matches are played and both AEK Athens and Olympiakos Piraeus are up there with the best. Let's go!

Insights:
  • AEK Athens have the most scored goals in the first half (11) in Super League
  • Olympiakos Piraeus have the fewest conceded goals (5) in Super League

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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AEK Athens form and stats

The story so far in the Super League for AEK Athens at their home stadium (Olympiako Stadio Spyros Louis) is 4 wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats. After failing to beat Ionikos here at Olympiako Stadio Spyros Louis, AEK Athens has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with four wins in a row.

Athens travelled for their previous game, a trip to Apollon Smirnis that ended 2-2.

Before that game, the 2-1 home victory against Aris.

Goals decide football matches and Athens are scoring many of them at home; 9 on target from 4 league matches. Athens have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 1 goal.

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Olympiakos Piraeus form and stats

4-0-0 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Olympiakos Piraeus, who have the fewest conceded goals (5) in Super League, in their Super League matches away. Long winning streaks away are a rare occurrence in football, which only makes Olympiakos's record of four away victories in a row even more impressive. They last lost points away in the Lamia game.

Olympiakos won their last game, 1-0 versus Ionikos played at home.

The game before that, in the Europa League, was lost at home, a 1-2 defeat against Eintracht Frankfurt.

After this away game Olympiakos Piraeus return home for a Europa League game against Fenerbahçe. That game is only four sleeps after this.

The Olympiakos Piraeus manager P. da Mota Vieira Martins has got the team scoring on the road, with 8 away goals in 4 league matches. Olympiakos are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 3 times in 4 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Head-to-head data (for the former ten meetings): Athens won zero games, two matches ended in a draw and Olympiakos Piraeus got eight wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / five

Top Goalscorers

AthensS. Zuber
S. Zuber
5 goals
AEK AthensS. Araújo
S. Araújo
4 goals
Olympiakos PiraeusF. das Chagas Soares dos Santos
F. das Chagas Soares dos Santos
4 goals

AEK Athens missing players

Olympiakos Piraeus missing players

AEK Athens Olympiakos Piraeus
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
9 4 0 Played P 0 4 9
6 4 0 Won W 0 4 7
2 0 0 Drew D 0 0 2
1 0 0 Lost L 0 0 0
20 9 0 Scored S 0 8 15
10 1 0 Conceded C 0 3 5
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 78%
89% 75% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 67%
78% 75% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 75% 56%
44% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 11%
11% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 11%
56% 25% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 75% 56%
33% 75% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 44%
11% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 22%
 
5.8 4.2 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 4 5.3
5.4 5.8 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 5 3.1
2.2 2.8 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.2 1.2
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
14.2 14.2 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 13.8 16.8
5.7 6 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4 4.1
39% 38% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 50% 41%
 
12.4 11.5 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 9.5 7.4
4 2.5 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 3 2.7
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • AEK Athens have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • AEK Athens have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • AEK Athens have the most points (12) at home in Super League
  • AEK Athens have the most scored goals in the first half (11) in Super League
  • AEK Athens have won all their matches at home so far.
  • AEK Athens have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • AEK Athens haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • All of Olympiakos Piraeus's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Olympiakos Piraeus have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Olympiakos Piraeus have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Olympiakos Piraeus have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Olympiakos Piraeus have the fewest conceded goals (5) in Super League
  • Olympiakos Piraeus have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in Super League
  • Olympiakos Piraeus have won all their away games so far.
  • Olympiakos Piraeus have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Olympiakos Piraeus haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Olympiakos Piraeus is in the best form (5-1-0) 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 Olympiakos Piraeus 9 7 2 0 15 5 5 3 2 0 7 2 4 4 0 0 8 3 10 23
2 AEK Athens 9 6 2 1 20 10 4 4 0 0 9 1 5 2 2 1 11 9 10 20
3 PAOK 9 6 1 2 20 11 4 2 1 1 10 6 5 4 0 1 10 5 9 19
4 Volos NFC 9 4 2 3 18 18 5 3 0 2 9 7 4 1 2 1 9 11 0 14
5 PAS Giannina 9 3 4 2 9 6 5 2 2 1 7 4 4 1 2 1 2 2 3 13
6 OFI 9 2 6 1 9 8 5 1 3 1 6 6 4 1 3 0 3 2 1 12
7 Aris 9 5 2 2 13 6 4 2 2 0 6 1 5 3 0 2 7 5 7 11
8 Panathinaikos 9 3 2 4 15 9 5 3 1 1 14 5 4 0 1 3 1 4 6 11
9 Lamia 9 2 3 4 9 11 4 0 2 2 5 7 5 2 1 2 4 4 -2 9
10 Asteras Tripolis 9 2 3 4 5 8 4 1 0 3 2 5 5 1 3 1 3 3 -3 9
11 Ionikos 9 2 3 4 6 11 4 1 2 1 3 3 5 1 1 3 3 8 -5 9
12 Apollon Smirnis 9 1 3 5 6 18 5 1 2 2 4 6 4 0 1 3 2 12 -12 6
13 Panaitolikos 9 1 2 6 9 20 5 0 1 4 4 9 4 1 1 2 5 11 -11 5
14 Atromitos 9 0 3 6 5 18 4 0 1 3 3 8 5 0 2 3 2 10 -13 3

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.