Home advantage could prove decisive in Asteras Tripolis - PAS Giannina battle

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Competition: Greece Super League
Competition: Sat 18.February
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Theodoros Kolokotronis (7616 seats)

The home fans look for a win and three points in this fixture, as the home advantage should be put to good use against a struggling visitor. Asteras Tripolis are in 9th position while the guesting PAS Giannina panic at 11th.

Insights:
  • PAS Giannina have the fewest clean sheets (2) in Super League

Both participants have had a decent time to rest since their last exertion in an official match. Let's aim for an active match!

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Asteras Tripolis form and stats

Asteras Tripolis have collected 18 points from their Super League home games so far after 4-6-1.

The home supporters saw a 2-2 draw versus PAOK last time out and are looking for a win here. There was plenty of action in the dying minutes of the game against PAOK as Atienza's goal in the 90th minute completed a cancellation of 0-2 and secured a draw after 90 minutes. Midfield player Regis got a match rating of 7.64 in that game, the max score being 10. Regis served one assist, hit five key passes and had 27 successful passes (of 28 total).

Preceding that game was the away draw at Panaitolikos that finished 0-0.

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 Tripolis have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 14 games) they have won 5 times, drawn 6 and lost 3.

It should be added that a glance at the 11 latest league games reveals that 10 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the sides scored).

Asteras Tripolis have scored {10 league goals} here from 11 matches, not a lot. Tripolis have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only {5 goals}.

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PAS Giannina form and stats

PAS Giannina have only collected 7 points from their away games in the Super League, after 1-4-6 (11 played). Sharing is caring, but PAS Giannina are perhaps overdoing it with their four draws in a row.

Giannina are looking to quickly end their 238 minutes long goal drought in the Super League. Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. PAS Giannina goalkeeper Vasilis Soulis is eager to challenge this, with his 193 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

PAS Giannina's last game was the home draw against Ionikos (0-0). Gino got a match rating of 7.65 in that game, top player of the team. Gino hit one key pass and had 47 successful passes (of 56 total).

A 0-0 draw at OFI's stadium before that.

Giannina are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 3 draws and 2 defeats. From a total of 6 matches.

Betting on few goals? 5 league fixtures in a row with this club have had at most two goals.

The visitors have scored 9 goals from 11 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. PAS Giannina have conceded 18 goals in these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

PAS Giannina - Asteras Tripolis 2-1 was the product when these contenders previously did battle, earlier this season. Head to head statistics (for the prior ten meetings): Tripolis won three games, five matches ended in a draw and PAS Giannina have two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: three / seven.

Top Goalscorers

PAS GianninaR. Erramuspe
R. Erramuspe
7 goals
PAS GianninaC. Balan
C. Balan
6 goals
Asteras TripolisL. Costa Silva
L. Costa Silva
3 goals

Asteras Tripolis missing players

PAS Giannina missing players

Asteras Tripolis PAS Giannina
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
22 11 4 Played P 3 11 22
4 4 3 Won W 0 1 4
11 6 1 Drew D 1 4 9
7 1 0 Lost L 2 6 9
17 10 6 Scored S 3 9 22
25 5 0 Conceded C 5 18 36
73% 64% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 91% 91%
55% 45% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 91% 86%
32% 18% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 45% 55%
18% 9% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 18% 27%
9% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 5%
27% 18% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 55% 64%
45% 73% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 9% 9%
55% 45% 25% Failed to Score F T 0% 45% 36%
 
3.4 3.5 4 Corners for (avg) C F 2.7 3.2 3.7
4 4.1 3.5 Corners against (avg) C A 5.3 5.5 5
2.9 2.8 2.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.7 2.1 2.1
2 1 1 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
9.7 10.6 10.5 Shots (avg) S ( 8 8.3 10
2.6 2.9 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.3 1.6 2.6
29% 31% 43% Goal Efficiency G E 75% 50% 39%
 
11.1 11.4 11.5 Shots against (avg) S A 11.3 11.6 11.7
3 2.1 1.8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.7 3.3 3.4
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • PAS Giannina have the fewest clean sheets (2) in Super League
  • PAS Giannina have the most conceded goals in the second half (25) 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 22 16 3 3 32 12 11 8 2 1 15 6 11 8 1 2 17 6 20 51
2 AEK Athens 21 16 2 3 44 9 11 10 0 1 26 3 10 6 2 2 18 6 35 50
3 Olympiakos Piraeus 22 13 7 2 41 13 11 8 2 1 25 6 11 5 5 1 16 7 28 46
4 PAOK 22 12 8 2 34 15 11 7 3 1 16 7 11 5 5 1 18 8 19 44
5 Volos NFC 22 10 5 7 29 34 11 5 1 5 16 23 11 5 4 2 13 11 -5 35
6 Aris 22 9 4 9 29 20 11 7 2 2 21 7 11 2 2 7 8 13 9 31
7 Atromitos 21 6 7 8 22 23 10 4 5 1 12 7 11 2 2 7 10 16 -1 25
8 Panaitolikos 22 6 6 10 24 35 11 2 3 6 8 16 11 4 3 4 16 19 -11 24
9 Asteras Tripolis 22 4 11 7 17 25 11 4 6 1 10 5 11 0 5 6 7 20 -8 23
10 OFI 22 5 8 9 21 26 11 2 4 5 6 11 11 3 4 4 15 15 -5 23
11 PAS Giannina 22 4 9 9 22 36 11 3 5 3 13 18 11 1 4 6 9 18 -14 21
12 Ionikos 22 3 6 13 15 33 11 1 5 5 8 17 11 2 1 8 7 16 -18 15
13 Levadiakos 22 2 7 13 12 31 11 2 4 5 7 14 11 0 3 8 5 17 -19 13
14 Lamia 22 1 9 12 9 39 11 1 4 6 7 21 11 0 5 6 2 18 -30 12

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.