Super League preview with statistics: Ionikos welcomes AEK Athens to Dimotiko Gipedo Neapolis Nikaias

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Competition: Greece Super League
Competition: Thu 16.December
Match begins: 17:30 (UTC)
Venue: Dimotiko Gipedo Neapolis Nikaias (4999 seats)

Ionikos will cross fingers that their home support is enough to get all three points from this grim duel, versus frisky AEK Athens.

Insights:
  • AEK Athens have the most scored goals (25) in Super League

Both contenders have had plenty of rest since their previous competitive action. Let's look for an animated match!

This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.

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Ionikos form and stats

Ionikos have collected 9 points from their Super League home games so far after 2-3-1.

Ionikos drew their last game, 2-2 away at Panaitolikos (placed 11th). There was plenty of action in the dying minutes of the game against Panaitolikos as Vafeas's goal in the 90th minute completed a cancellation of 0-2 and secured a draw after 90 minutes. Vafeas was able to secure the draw 2-2 in the game against Panaitolikos after coming on as a substitute and scoring the final goal. In the starting lineup today?

Ahead of that match, Ionikos won a home game hosting PAOK (3-2).

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Ionikos as they are travelling to their away game against Aris in the Super League. That match is four days after this one.

Ionikos has scored 7 league goals at home this season, in 6 matches. Ionikos's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 6 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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AEK Athens form and stats

3-3-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for AEK Athens, who have the most scored goals (25) in Super League, in their Super League matches away.

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. Athens goalkeeper Panagiotis Tsintotas is eager to challenge this, with his 265 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Asteras Tripolis (placed 8th) in their previous outing. The Super League match ended in a draw 0-0.

Before that, AEK Athens secured a home win against Panathinaikos with the score 1-0.

After this away game Athens return home for a Super League game against OFI. That game is only four sleeps after this.

Athens are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 13 times in 7 away games so far. 10 goals have been conceded by Athens in these games.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met earlier this season: AEK Athens - Ionikos 3-0. Data for the last five meetings featuring these two teams are: zero wins for Ionikos, zero draws and five wins for AEK Athens. Over 2,5 goals: three times; under 2,5 goals: two games.

Top Goalscorers

AEK AthensS. Araújo
S. Araújo
6 goals
IonikosA. Aosman
A. Aosman
5 goals
AEK AthensS. Zuber
S. Zuber
5 goals

Ionikos missing players

AEK Athens missing players

Ionikos AEK Athens
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
13 6 1 Played P 2 7 13
3 2 0 Won W 1 3 8
5 3 1 Drew D 1 3 3
5 1 0 Lost L 0 1 2
13 7 0 Scored S 5 13 25
18 6 0 Conceded C 3 10 14
85% 83% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 86% 92%
69% 67% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 86% 77%
46% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 71% 69%
23% 17% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 57% 38%
15% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 14% 15%
54% 67% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 71% 54%
31% 33% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 14% 38%
31% 17% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 29% 15%
 
3 3.2 4 Corners for (avg) C F 10 6.7 6.1
4.5 3.8 3 Corners against (avg) C A 2 5.4 5.3
2.8 2.5 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2 2.2
4 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
9.3 10.5 13 Shots (avg) S ( 18.5 13.9 13.9
3.4 3.2 1 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6 5.3 5.5
30% 37% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 42% 35% 35%
 
12.8 9.7 9 Shots against (avg) S A 11.5 12.9 12.8
4.9 4.2 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.5 4.9 4.2
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • AEK Athens have created more than twice as many corners as Ionikos.
  • AEK Athens have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • AEK Athens have the most scored goals (25) in Super League
  • AEK Athens have the most scored goals in the first half (14) 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 12 10 2 0 23 9 6 4 2 0 9 3 6 6 0 0 14 6 14 32
2 AEK Athens 13 8 3 2 25 14 6 5 0 1 12 4 7 3 3 1 13 10 11 27
3 PAS Giannina 13 6 4 3 19 10 7 3 2 2 11 8 6 3 2 1 8 2 9 22
4 Panathinaikos 13 6 2 5 22 11 7 5 1 1 18 5 6 1 1 4 4 6 11 20
5 PAOK 12 6 1 5 22 17 5 2 1 2 10 7 7 4 0 3 12 10 5 19
6 OFI 12 4 6 2 14 12 7 2 3 2 9 10 5 2 3 0 5 2 2 18
7 Aris 12 7 2 3 15 11 6 3 2 1 7 6 6 4 0 2 8 5 4 17
8 Asteras Tripolis 13 3 5 5 12 12 6 2 1 3 8 7 7 1 4 2 4 5 0 14
9 Volos NFC 13 4 2 7 22 27 7 3 0 4 10 11 6 1 2 3 12 16 -5 14
10 Ionikos 13 3 5 5 13 18 6 2 3 1 7 6 7 1 2 4 6 12 -5 14
11 Panaitolikos 13 3 3 7 14 25 7 1 2 4 7 11 6 2 1 3 7 14 -11 12
12 Lamia 12 2 4 6 10 15 6 0 2 4 6 11 6 2 2 2 4 4 -5 10
13 Atromitos 13 2 3 8 13 27 6 2 1 3 9 9 7 0 2 5 4 18 -14 9
14 Apollon Smirnis 12 1 4 7 7 23 6 1 3 2 4 6 6 0 1 5 3 17 -16 7

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.