Lamia fights Apollon Smirnis in Super League battle

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Competition: Greece Super League
Competition: Wed 27.January
Match begins: 15:15 (UTC)
Venue: Dimotiko Athlitiko Kentro Lamias (6000 seats)

Lamia are welcoming Apollon Smirnis for another important game after their 0-0 result against 12th-placed Panaitolikos.

Insights:
  • Lamia has the most conceded goals (30) in Super League

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 Lamia and Apollon Smirnis.

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Lamia form and stats

Lamia's struggle is real here at Dimotiko Athlitiko Kentro Lamias with only 5 points collected from 9 Super League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-2-6.

Lamia drew their last game, 0-0 away at Panaitolikos (placed 12th). A 1-1 draw away before that, with Volos NFC the opponent.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Lamia have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found ten matches with the results: Won three, drawn five and lost two.

The manager M. Grigoriou will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Panathinaikos in only three days.

Lamia aren't scoring a lot here at Dimotiko Athlitiko Kentro Lamias in the league, with only 6 goals from 9 games. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 17 goals have been conceded.

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Apollon Smirnis form and stats

4 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Apollon Smirnis playing as the away team in the Super League this season. Apollon Smirnis has been amazing away for a time now, winning four in a row on their travels. The last time they went home with a point loss was against Asteras Tripolis.

Home advantage was not enough for Apollon Smirnis in their previous game, as they lost their Super League-match, hosting Aris, 0-1. It was a Greek Cup defeat before that one as the away game against AEK Athens wasn't a success with a 0-2 loss.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found four similar matches played by Apollon in our archives, and the results are: one win for Apollon Smirnis, one draw and two defeats.

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

Apollon are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 9 away goals from 9 games (in the league). It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (7 so far).

Head 2 Head

As for the last nine games between these two teams, there's two Lamia victories, four draws and three Apollon Smirnis wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, seven matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Apollon SmirnisF. Andoni
F. Andoni
4 goals
Apollon SmirnisS. Tsiloulis
S. Tsiloulis
4 goals
Apollon SmirnisN. Ioannidis
N. Ioannidis
3 goals

Lamia missing players

Apollon Smirnis missing players

Lamia Apollon Smirnis
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
16 9 1 Played P 3 9 17
1 1 0 Won W 3 4 5
4 2 1 Drew D 0 2 3
11 6 0 Lost L 0 3 9
9 6 0 Scored S 5 9 18
30 17 0 Conceded C 1 7 22
88% 89% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 89% 94%
81% 78% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 44% 47%
44% 44% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 22% 35%
19% 22% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 22% 29%
6% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 12%
38% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 33% 22% 35%
19% 22% 100% Clean Sheets C S 67% 44% 29%
56% 56% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 44% 41%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.5 2.6 5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 3.4 3.2
3 2 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
7.9 7.2 11 Shots (avg) S ( 9 7.3 8.5
3.2 2.7 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.7 3.3 3.8
17% 25% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 45% 30% 28%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Lamia has the fewest matches under the total-line (4) in Super League
  • Lamia has the most conceded goals (17) at home in Super League
  • Lamia has the most conceded goals (30) in Super League
  • Lamia has the the worst goal difference (-11) at home in Super League
  • Lamia has the the worst goal difference (-21) in Super League
  • Lamia have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Lamia have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.

  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 18 15 3 0 45 7 9 9 0 0 25 2 9 6 3 0 20 5 38 48
2 AEK Athens 18 11 4 3 30 19 9 5 3 1 17 9 9 6 1 2 13 10 11 37
3 PAOK 18 10 6 2 32 15 9 6 3 0 17 7 9 4 3 2 15 8 17 36
4 Aris 18 11 3 4 23 11 9 5 1 3 11 7 9 6 2 1 12 4 12 36
5 Panathinaikos 18 9 4 5 20 12 9 5 2 2 10 4 9 4 2 3 10 8 8 31
6 Asteras Tripolis 18 7 6 5 18 19 9 5 2 2 9 7 9 2 4 3 9 12 -1 27
7 Volos NFC 18 5 8 5 20 25 8 2 4 2 6 8 10 3 4 3 14 17 -5 23
8 Atromitos 18 5 6 7 17 24 10 4 3 3 12 12 8 1 3 4 5 12 -7 21
9 OFI 18 5 4 9 18 28 9 2 3 4 9 16 9 3 1 5 9 12 -10 19
10 Apollon Smirnis 17 5 3 9 18 22 8 1 1 6 9 15 9 4 2 3 9 7 -4 18
11 PAS Giannina 18 3 6 9 16 22 9 1 4 4 7 10 9 2 2 5 9 12 -6 15
12 Panaitolikos 18 2 6 10 9 22 9 2 2 5 7 12 9 0 4 5 2 10 -13 12
13 Larissa 17 1 5 11 9 28 8 0 4 4 3 10 9 1 1 7 6 18 -19 8
14 Lamia 16 1 4 11 9 30 9 1 2 6 6 17 7 0 2 5 3 13 -21 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.