Betting preview: Lamia vs PAS Giannina should be interesting

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Competition: Greece Super League
Competition: Sun 28.February
Match begins: 15:15 (UTC)
Venue: Dimotiko Athlitiko Kentro Lamias (6000 seats)

Lamia hope to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been rough so far with 18 points and a 12th position in the Super League table. Visiting PAS Giannina holds 9th place with 24 pts.

Insights:
  • Lamia has the fewest scored goals in the second half (5) in Super League
  • PAS Giannina has the most dropped points from leading position (18) in Super League

Lamia have less rest than PAS Giannina in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Super League game only four days ago. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Larissa.

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Lamia form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Super League this season. Lamia have only managed 2 wins, 2 draws and 6 losses from their games here at Dimotiko Athlitiko Kentro Lamias.

It's back home for Lamia, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Larissa away with the result 1-0. Bachana Arabuli found the net in that victory. Heartbreak before that as Lamia lost 0-4 at PAOK's place.

This is expected to be a close game, with Lamia perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Lamia as a small favourite), we find ten games. Lamia has won four of these, drawn four and lost two.

Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Greek Cup game versus PAOK in only three days. This game is also played here at Dimotiko Athlitiko Kentro Lamias.

Lamia aren't scoring a lot here at Dimotiko Athlitiko Kentro Lamias in the league, with only 7 goals from 10 games. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Lamia defense is not exactly impregnable. 17 goals conceded from 10 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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PAS Giannina form and stats

4 wins, 2 draws and 5 losses. That’s the product of PAS Giannina playing as the away team in the Super League this season. It could be a hat trick of victories away for Giannina, as they have won on their previous two travels.

Giannina won their last game, 1-0 versus OFI played at home. That result followed a home victory 2-1 versus Panathinaikos in the Greek Cup.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eight similar matches played by PAS Giannina in our archives, and the results are: three wins for PAS Giannina, three draws and two defeats.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Giannina manager A. Giannikis as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Panathinaikos.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Giannina have scored 13 goals in 11 league games away. 13 goals have been conceded by PAS Giannina in these games.

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the PAS Giannina - Lamia 2-0 earlier this season. Last six meetings between the teams: Lamia won one, PAS Giannina won one and four draws. two games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

PAS GianninaG. Pamlidis
G. Pamlidis
6 goals
LamiaB. Arabuli
B. Arabuli
4 goals
PAS GianninaC. Eleftheriadis
C. Eleftheriadis
4 goals

Lamia missing players

PAS Giannina missing players

Lamia PAS Giannina
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
22 10 3 Played P 4 11 23
4 2 0 Won W 2 4 6
6 2 1 Drew D 1 2 6
12 6 2 Lost L 1 5 11
12 7 3 Scored S 5 13 21
34 17 6 Conceded C 4 13 26
82% 90% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 91% 87%
64% 70% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 82% 65%
36% 40% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 55% 39%
18% 20% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 9% 13%
5% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
27% 30% 67% BTTS BTTS 75% 55% 43%
36% 30% 0% Clean Sheets C S 25% 27% 30%
55% 50% 33% Failed to Score F T 25% 27% 39%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.2 2.5 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 3.3 3
4 2 0 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
7.7 7.7 6.7 Shots (avg) S ( 9 8.8 9.1
3.1 2.8 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.8 2.8 2.5
18% 25% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 45% 42% 36%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Lamia has the fewest scored goals in the second half (5) 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.
  • PAS Giannina has the most dropped points from leading position (18) in Super League
  • PAS Giannina have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

  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 23 18 4 1 56 11 12 11 1 0 32 3 11 7 3 1 24 8 45 58
2 PAOK 23 13 7 3 45 20 12 8 4 0 28 9 11 5 3 3 17 11 25 46
3 Aris 23 13 5 5 28 14 11 6 2 3 12 7 12 7 3 2 16 7 14 44
4 AEK Athens 23 13 5 5 38 27 12 5 4 3 19 15 11 8 1 2 19 12 11 44
5 Panathinaikos 23 12 5 6 27 16 11 6 3 2 12 5 12 6 2 4 15 11 11 41
6 Asteras Tripolis 23 10 8 5 24 22 11 6 3 2 11 8 12 4 5 3 13 14 2 38
7 Volos NFC 23 7 9 7 24 29 11 3 4 4 8 11 12 4 5 3 16 18 -5 30
8 Atromitos 23 6 8 9 23 31 12 4 4 4 15 16 11 2 4 5 8 15 -8 26
9 PAS Giannina 23 6 6 11 21 26 12 2 4 6 8 13 11 4 2 5 13 13 -5 24
10 Apollon Smirnis 23 6 4 13 23 32 11 2 1 8 12 20 12 4 3 5 11 12 -9 22
11 OFI 23 5 4 14 19 37 12 2 3 7 10 21 11 3 1 7 9 16 -18 19
12 Lamia 22 4 6 12 12 34 10 2 2 6 7 17 12 2 4 6 5 17 -22 18
13 Panaitolikos 23 3 8 12 12 30 12 3 3 6 10 15 11 0 5 6 2 15 -18 17
14 Larissa 22 1 7 14 12 35 11 0 5 6 5 15 11 1 2 8 7 20 -23 10

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.