Stadio Thódoros Vardinoyánnis: OFI vs Xanthi Super League preview

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Competition: Greece Super League
Date: Sat 26.October
Match begins: 16:15 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Thódoros Vardinoyánnis

OFI will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 2 points behind Xanthi.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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OFI form and stats

Perfect Super League season at home so far for OFI, who have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Super League, 3 wins from 3 appearances. It’s been three wins in a row for OFI here at Stadio Thódoros Vardinoyánnis, hoping to make this one the fourth consecutive victory.

OFI lost their last game at Olympiakos Piraeus (placed 1st) after a 1-2 scoreline. Ahead of that match, OFI won a home game hosting Panionios (4-1).

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier OFI matches with similar probabilities have ended with 2 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats (from four games).

OFI are traveling soon after this match as the Greek Cup match at Kavala awaits in four days.

OFI always seem capable of creating a buzz here at Stadio Thódoros Vardinoyánnis with 10 goals in 3 league games. On the other hand, OFI have conceded 3 goals.

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Xanthi form and stats

As the visiting team in Super League matches, Xanthi, who have the most points (9) away in Super League, have produced an overall stat of 3-0-1 so far.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Super League home defeat versus Aris with 0-1 on the scoreboard. Prior to that result Xanthi won their away game at Panathinaikos. The scoreline was 1-0.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Xanthi when being an outsider away as they are today, we find two matches with the visitors losing 0 times, drawing 1 and winning 1 game.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Xanthi manager Kiko Ramírez as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Apollon Larissa.

Xanthi have scored 5 goals on their travels this season, from 4 away games in the league. 5 goals have been conceded by Xanthi in these games.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): OFI 2 wins, 3 draws and Xanthi 5 victories. As for goals, 4 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 6 games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

OFIK. Tsilianidis
K. Tsilianidis
4 goals / 2 assists
OFILisandro Semedo
Lisandro Semedo
3 goals / 1 assists
OFID. Manos
D. Manos
3 goals / 1 assists

OFI missing players

Xanthi missing players

OFI Xanthi
Total Home Home vs top Statistics Stat Away vs mid Away Total
7 3 0 Played P 1 4 7
4 3 0 Won W 0 3 5
1 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
2 0 0 Lost L 1 1 2
15 10 0 Scored S 0 5 10
8 3 0 Conceded C 3 5 8
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
86% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 71%
71% 100% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 75% 71%
57% 100% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 14%
14% 33% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
86% 100% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 57%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 14%
14% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 25% 29%
 
4.6 6.7 0 Corners For (avg) C F 0 1 2
3.6 3 0 Corners Against (avg) C A 7 5.5 4.9
3 2.3 0 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 3 2.2 2
0 0 0 Red Cards R C 1 1 1
Key stats this season:
  • All of OFI's home-matches have had more than 3,5 goals.
  • OFI have created more than twice as many corners as Xanthi.
  • OFI have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • OFI have won all their matches at home so far.
  • OFI have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • OFI have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • OFI haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Xanthi have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Xanthi have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Xanthi have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Xanthi haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

OFI
All Football League Greek Cup Super League
All Home Away Home vs top
14-09-19 SL OFI 3 - 1 Panaitolikos
21-09-19 SL Volos NFC 1 - 0 OFI
29-09-19 SL OFI 3 - 1 Asteras Tripolis
06-10-19 SL OFI 4 - 1 Panionios
19-10-19 SL Olympiakos Piraeus 2 - 1 OFI
26-10-19 SL OFI 16:15 Xanthi
30-10-19 GC Kavala 16:15 OFI
03-11-19 SL Larissa 14:00 OFI
09-11-19 SL OFI 18:30 PAOK
24-11-19 SL Atromitos 16:00 OFI
Xanthi
All Club Friendlies Greek Cup Super League
All Home Away Away vs mid
15-09-19 SL Xanthi 2 - 1 Asteras Tripolis
22-09-19 SL Larissa 3 - 0 Xanthi
29-09-19 SL Xanthi 3 - 1 Volos NFC
05-10-19 SL Panathinaikos 0 - 1 Xanthi
20-10-19 SL Xanthi 0 - 1 Aris
26-10-19 SL OFI 16:15 Xanthi
29-10-19 GC Apollon Larissa 14:00 Xanthi
02-11-19 SL Xanthi 19:00 Olympiakos Piraeus
10-11-19 SL Xanthi 16:00 Panionios
23-11-19 SL Lamia 19:00 Xanthi

  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 7 6 1 0 14 3 4 4 0 0 10 1 3 2 1 0 4 2 11 19
2 PAOK 7 5 2 0 16 9 4 3 1 0 9 4 3 2 1 0 7 5 7 17
3 Xanthi 7 5 0 2 10 8 3 2 0 1 5 3 4 3 0 1 5 5 2 15
4 AEK Athens 7 4 2 1 12 8 4 2 1 1 8 6 3 2 1 0 4 2 4 14
5 OFI 7 4 1 2 15 8 3 3 0 0 10 3 4 1 1 2 5 5 7 13
6 Panionios 7 1 1 5 5 11 4 1 0 3 2 4 3 0 1 2 3 7 -6 10
7 Larissa 7 2 3 2 9 7 3 1 1 1 3 1 4 1 2 1 6 6 2 9
8 Volos NFC 7 3 0 4 9 15 3 2 0 1 4 3 4 1 0 3 5 12 -6 9
9 Aris 7 2 2 3 11 9 4 1 1 2 8 6 3 1 1 1 3 3 2 8
10 Atromitos 7 2 2 3 11 11 4 1 1 2 5 5 3 1 1 1 6 6 0 8
11 Panathinaikos 7 2 2 3 5 10 3 0 1 2 2 5 4 2 1 1 3 5 -5 8
12 Asteras Tripolis 7 2 0 5 8 12 3 1 0 2 5 6 4 1 0 3 3 6 -4 6
13 Lamia 7 0 4 3 4 11 4 0 4 0 4 4 3 0 0 3 0 7 -7 4
14 Panaitolikos 7 0 2 5 5 12 3 0 1 2 3 5 4 0 1 3 2 7 -7 2

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