Soccer match preview: AEK Athens confident before travelling to Aris

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Competition: Greece Super League
Competition: Sun 07.May
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Harilaou Kleánthis Vikelídis (23400 seats)

Flashy AEK Athens come to Aris after their 0-0-result vs Olympiakos Piraeus. Get out our complete match preview!

Insights:
  • Aris have the most matches over the total-line (21) in Super League
  • AEK Athens have the most clean sheets (23) in Super League

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Aris form and stats

29 points is a decent return from 13 Super League games here at Stadio Harilaou Kleánthis Vikelídis for Aris. The data says 9 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses. Aris has recorded two wins in a row here at Stadio Harilaou Kleánthis Vikelídis, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.

Aris's last game was hosting Volos NFC and winning 4-2. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today? Midfielder Palma was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.85 (out of ten) in that game. Palma scored two goals, served one assist, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 4 of 4 times and had 31 successful passes (of 34 total).

Heartbreak before that as Aris lost 2-3 at PAOK's place.

Take note: 9 of the most recent 11 league games from this football club have seen goals scored by both teams.

Aris have only conceded 9 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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AEK Athens form and stats

AEK Athens have an excellent away record in the Super League so far with 8-2-3 from 13 games.

AEK Athens have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 184 minutes ago. Fernandes was the goal scorer. The Athens goalkeeper Giorgos Athanasiadis is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 306 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

AEK Athens delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against Olympiakos Piraeus in their previous match. Safi, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 8.01. Safi hit four key passes and won 5 of 5 duels.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Panathinaikos that ended 0-0.

Take note: 12 of the latest 15 league games involving this team have seen only one (or no) team scoring (Both Teams to Score NO in the betting world).

AEK Athens 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 Athens as they have only conceded 8 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

The previous head to head encounter ended AEK Athens - Aris 3-1, played this season. Head-to-head numbers (for the prior ten meetings): Aris won four games, one match ended with a draw and AEK Athens managed five wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / three.

Top Goalscorers

AEK AthensL. Garcia
L. Garcia
14 goals
ArisL. Palma Oseguera
L. Palma Oseguera
11 goals
AEK AthensM. Gaćinović
M. Gaćinović
8 goals

Aris missing players

AEK Athens missing players

Aris AEK Athens
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
34 17 6 Played P 5 17 34
15 11 2 Won W 5 11 24
5 2 1 Drew D 0 3 5
14 4 3 Lost L 0 3 5
53 33 6 Scored S 11 27 63
38 15 7 Conceded C 0 9 16
94% 94% 83% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 88%
76% 82% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 60% 71% 71%
62% 71% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 40% 41% 47%
24% 18% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 20% 12% 21%
9% 12% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 6%
44% 53% 67% BTTS BTTS 0% 29% 26%
32% 35% 17% Clean Sheets C S 100% 65% 68%
29% 18% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 18% 18%
 
4.9 5.9 5.3 Corners for (avg) C F 5.8 4.9 6.4
4 3.4 4.8 Corners against (avg) C A 3.2 2.9 2.4
2.2 1.8 3.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 2.2 2
6 2 2 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
12.4 13.9 9.7 Shots (avg) S ( 15.2 14.3 16.9
4 4.3 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.6 3.9 5.3
39% 45% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 48% 40% 35%
 
10.6 9 10.7 Shots against (avg) S A 5.2 7.2 6.4
3.5 2.5 2.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 1.6 1.5 1.5
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • 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 clean sheets (11) away in Super League
  • AEK Athens have the most clean sheets (23) in Super League
  • AEK Athens have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • AEK Athens have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Aris have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Aris have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Aris have the fewest matches under the total-line (13) in Super League
  • Aris have the most matches over the total-line (21) 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.