Super League information and preview: AEK Athens modest front runner to subdue Panathinaikos

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Competition: Greece Super League
Competition: Sun 05.December
Match begins: 17:30 (UTC)
Venue: Olympiako Stadio Spyros Louis (69638 seats)

The home team, AEK Athens, should be odds-on favourites in this game, but Panathinaikos have displayed both smartness and fearlessness. Learn more about the game!

Insights:
  • AEK Athens have the most scored goals (24) in Super League
  • AEK Athens have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Panathinaikos have scored away.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Athens and Panathinaikos.

These teams are so close in distance that this match is special, a derby with local pride the main prize.

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AEK Athens form and stats

AEK Athens have played 5 Super League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 4-0-1 (wins-draws-losses).

Athens's previous game was a Greek Cup match also played at home, ending 4-0 versus Kifisia. The home side are looking to build on that result. As indicated by the result mentioned above, AEK Athens played a great game against Kifisia and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.

In the game before, an away victory in the Super League match versus PAS Giannina with a 2-1 scoreline.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Athens have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found six games) they have won one time, drawn two and lost three.

With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (11 in 5 games), Athens's attacking play is working. Athens are not conceding a lot of goals here at Olympiako Stadio Spyros Louis in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 5 matches.

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Panathinaikos form and stats

The visitors are W1-D1-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Super League.

The supporters enjoyed Panathinaikos's previous game versus Volos NFC (placed 8th), a Greek Cup 2-1 win played at home.

Before that, Panathinaikos secured a home win against Panaitolikos with the score 2-0.

Panathinaikos are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is two wins, one draw and one defeat. From a total of four matches.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Panathinaikos as they have only managed to score 4 times from 5 away games in the league. As opposed to that, Panathinaikos have seen the ball go into their own net 5 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

AEK Athens-Panathinaikos H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Athens three wins, Panathinaikos two wins, five draws. three of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

PanathinaikosC. López Huesca
C. López Huesca
8 goals
AEK AthensS. Araújo
S. Araújo
6 goals
AthensS. Zuber
S. Zuber
5 goals

AEK Athens missing players

Panathinaikos missing players

AEK Athens Panathinaikos
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
11 5 1 Played P 1 5 11
7 4 1 Won W 0 1 5
2 0 0 Drew D 1 1 2
2 1 0 Lost L 0 3 4
24 11 2 Scored S 0 4 20
14 4 1 Conceded C 0 5 10
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 80% 82%
91% 80% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 40% 64%
82% 80% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 40% 55%
45% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 45%
18% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 18%
64% 40% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 45%
27% 60% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 20% 36%
9% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 60% 36%
 
6.5 5.6 0 Corners for (avg) C F 1 4.4 3.8
5.5 5.8 13 Corners against (avg) C A 4 3.4 3.4
2.1 2.4 5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.4 2.1
2 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
14.7 14.4 6 Shots (avg) S ( 4 9 10.4
5.6 5.6 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 2.8 4.5
39% 39% 67% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 29% 40%
 
12.1 11.6 23 Shots against (avg) S A 23 10.6 9.5
4.1 3.4 7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 1 2.2 2.8
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 at least twice as many goals at home as Panathinaikos have scored away.
  • AEK Athens have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • AEK Athens have the most scored goals (24) in Super League
  • AEK Athens have the most scored goals in the first half (13) in Super League
  • AEK Athens haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 11 9 2 0 20 8 6 4 2 0 9 3 5 5 0 0 11 5 12 29
2 AEK Athens 11 7 2 2 24 14 5 4 0 1 11 4 6 3 2 1 13 10 10 23
3 PAOK 11 6 1 4 20 14 5 2 1 2 10 7 6 4 0 2 10 7 6 19
4 OFI 11 4 6 1 13 9 6 2 3 1 8 7 5 2 3 0 5 2 4 18
5 Panathinaikos 11 5 2 4 20 10 6 4 1 1 16 5 5 1 1 3 4 5 10 17
6 PAS Giannina 11 4 4 3 15 8 6 2 2 2 8 6 5 2 2 1 7 2 7 16
7 Aris 11 6 2 3 14 11 5 2 2 1 6 6 6 4 0 2 8 5 3 14
8 Volos NFC 11 4 2 5 19 22 6 3 0 3 9 9 5 1 2 2 10 13 -3 14
9 Asteras Tripolis 11 3 4 4 12 11 5 2 0 3 8 7 6 1 4 1 4 4 1 13
10 Lamia 11 2 4 5 10 14 5 0 2 3 6 10 6 2 2 2 4 4 -4 10
11 Ionikos 11 2 4 5 8 14 5 1 3 1 4 4 6 1 1 4 4 10 -6 10
12 Panaitolikos 11 2 2 7 10 22 6 1 1 4 5 9 5 1 1 3 5 13 -12 8
13 Apollon Smirnis 11 1 4 6 6 19 6 1 3 2 4 6 5 0 1 4 2 13 -13 7
14 Atromitos 11 1 3 7 9 24 5 1 1 3 5 8 6 0 2 4 4 16 -15 6

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.