PAOK travel to Apollon Smirnis with space in suitcase for three points

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Competition: Greece Super League
Competition: Wed 02.February
Match begins: 19:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Georgios Kamaras (14856 seats)

The guesting PAOK team are probably odds-on at Apollon Smirnis, as the away side enjoy a 29 point advantage from their 19 league matches this season.

Insights:
  • Apollon Smirnis have the fewest scored goals (7) in Super League
  • PAOK have the most scored goals (41) in Super League

It's no vacation for neither Apollon Smirnis nor PAOK 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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Apollon Smirnis form and stats

With 1 Super League win, 5 draws and 3 defeats from their home games, Apollon Smirnis are certainly not brimming with confidence. All in all it has been a very rough period for Apollon Smirnis who hasn’t won a league-game in their last twelve attempts. Their previous win was against PAS Giannina, 102 days ago.

Apollon Smirnis are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 612 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by Fation).

Apollon Smirnis faced defeat in their previous match, away at PAS Giannina (0-2).

Heartbreak before that as Apollon lost 0-1 at Asteras Tripolis's place.

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

Apollon Smirnis have scored 4 goals here in 9 league matches, a depressing statistic. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches.

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PAOK form and stats

PAOK's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed PAOK collect 18 points from their 9 away matches in the Super League. 6 victories and 0 draws have created these points (and only 3 defeats). In general it has been a productive period now for PAOK as they haven't lost any of their last ten games.

PAOK delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Olympiakos Piraeus (placed 1st) in their previous match.

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Volos NFC at their stadium, the result 4-0.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Panathinaikos in just four days.

With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, PAOK are regular goalscorers on their travels. It's worth mentioning that 10 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. PAOK have conceded 10 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

PAOK - Apollon Smirnis 4-1 was the end result in these contenders' previous head to head game, played this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Apollon Smirnis zero wins, three draws and PAOK seven victories. As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

PAOKJ. Kurtič
J. Kurtič
13 goals
PAOKC. Akpom
C. Akpom
5 goals
ApollonN. Ioannidis
N. Ioannidis
3 goals

Apollon Smirnis missing players

PAOK missing players

Apollon Smirnis PAOK
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
18 9 2 Played P 3 9 19
1 1 0 Won W 1 6 12
6 5 2 Drew D 0 0 2
11 3 0 Lost L 2 3 5
7 4 2 Scored S 4 20 41
30 9 2 Conceded C 6 10 21
72% 56% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
44% 33% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 89% 84%
39% 33% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 78% 63%
33% 22% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 56% 42%
17% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 11% 21%
28% 22% 50% BTTS BTTS 67% 56% 53%
33% 56% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 32%
67% 67% 50% Failed to Score F T 33% 11% 16%
 
2.9 3.1 0 Corners for (avg) C F 5 3.4 5.3
4.9 5.7 11.5 Corners against (avg) C A 4.7 5.2 3.9
2.9 2.9 4.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.3 2 2.2
5 2 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
7.9 9.2 5.5 Shots (avg) S ( 13.3 11.9 13.1
2.5 2.9 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.7 5.1 5.6
16% 15% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 43% 38%
 
14.2 13.9 23 Shots against (avg) S A 10.3 11.8 9.8
5.2 3.9 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 3.4 3.2
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Apollon Smirnis have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Apollon Smirnis have the fewest scored goals (4) at home in Super League
  • Apollon Smirnis have the fewest scored goals (7) in Super League
  • Apollon Smirnis have the fewest scored goals in the first half (3) in Super League
  • Apollon Smirnis have the fewest scored goals in the second half (4) in Super League
  • Apollon Smirnis have the the worst goal difference (-23) in Super League
  • PAOK have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • PAOK have scored more than double the goals of Apollon Smirnis.
  • PAOK have the most scored goals (20) away in Super League
  • PAOK have the most scored goals (41) in Super League
  • PAOK have the most scored goals in the second half (23) in Super League
  • PAOK have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • PAOK haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • PAOK 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 19 14 5 0 31 10 9 7 2 0 13 3 10 7 3 0 18 7 21 47
2 PAOK 19 12 2 5 41 21 10 6 2 2 21 11 9 6 0 3 20 10 20 38
3 AEK Athens 19 11 3 5 33 20 9 5 0 4 15 10 10 6 3 1 18 10 13 36
4 Panathinaikos 19 9 3 7 28 15 11 7 2 2 22 6 8 2 1 5 6 9 13 30
5 PAS Giannina 20 8 6 6 24 20 11 5 3 3 15 13 9 3 3 3 9 7 4 30
6 Asteras Tripolis 19 8 5 6 19 15 10 6 1 3 12 7 9 2 4 3 7 8 4 29
7 Aris 19 9 5 5 19 15 8 4 3 1 8 6 11 5 2 4 11 9 4 26
8 OFI 20 6 8 6 24 25 10 2 5 3 13 16 10 4 3 3 11 9 -1 26
9 Volos NFC 19 7 3 9 30 36 10 5 0 5 14 16 9 2 3 4 16 20 -6 24
10 Panaitolikos 19 6 3 10 22 34 9 2 2 5 9 14 10 4 1 5 13 20 -12 21
11 Lamia 19 4 6 9 17 24 10 2 3 5 12 17 9 2 3 4 5 7 -7 18
12 Ionikos 19 4 5 10 16 25 9 3 3 3 9 9 10 1 2 7 7 16 -9 17
13 Atromitos 18 2 4 12 16 37 8 2 1 5 9 14 10 0 3 7 7 23 -21 10
14 Apollon Smirnis 18 1 6 11 7 30 9 1 5 3 4 9 9 0 1 8 3 21 -23 9

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.