Soccer match preview: Home crowd has high hopes when Panathinaikos welcomes Lamia

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Competition: Greece Super League
Competition: Sat 30.January
Match begins: 17:30 (UTC)
Venue: Olympiako Stadio Spyros Louis (69638 seats)

The home fans are expecting three points in this fixture, as the home advantage should be put to good use versus a struggling visitor. Panathinaikos are in the 5th position while the guesting Lamia worry at 13th.

Insights:
  • Panathinaikos has the most scored goals in the first half (14) in Super League
  • Lamia has the most conceded goals (30) in Super League

It's no vacation for neither Panathinaikos nor Lamia as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Panathinaikos form and stats

Overall Super League stats at home this season for Panathinaikos are 5-2-2 (wins-draw-losses). The team is doing great wherever they are playing as Panathinaikos has won five games in a row. The Asteras Tripolis match was the last time out without a victory. The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at Olympiako Stadio Spyros Louis.

Panathinaikos are confident in defense, having played 565 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

A strong away win for Panathinaikos against Volos NFC the last match, as Fotis Ioannidis and Argyris Kampetsis were on target. Previous to that game, a home match hosting OFI in a game that was won 2-0.

The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Panathinaikos home games with this odds we find seven games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in seven wins, zero draws and zero defeats. Looking at the victories, four matches were won by at least two goals.

Panathinaikos has scored 10 league goals at home this season, in 9 matches. Panathinaikos have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 4 goals. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Lamia form and stats

There's been little loot from Lamia's travels as they have only collected 2 points from 7 away games in the Super League. Lamia, who have the most conceded goals (30) in Super League, only have 0 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 2 draws. Lamia has drawn their two previous away games.

219 minutes! That's how long the Lamia goalkeeper Devis Rogers Epassy Mboka and his defense have shut out their league opponents.

Lamia had fun at their own home (Olympiako Stadio Spyros Louis) last time out, beating Apollon Smirnis 1-0. Anastasios Karamanos scored. Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Panaitolikos that ended 0-0.

You'll want to know how Lamia managed when outsiders such as today. Our database found six similar matches resulting in zero away wins, one draw and five home wins.

There's been a serious shortage of goals from Lamia's away games in the league this season with only 3 goals from 7 matches. It's worth mentioning that 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. As for defending, Lamia rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 13 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Panathinaikos and Lamia have met before this season: Lamia - Panathinaikos 0-2. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's six Panathinaikos victories, one draw and three Lamia wins. Over/under statistics; one of these games ended with three goals or more, nine matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

PanathinaikosC. López Huesca
C. López Huesca
5 goals
PanathinaikosF. Macheda
F. Macheda
4 goals
PanathinaikosA. Kampetsis
A. Kampetsis
3 goals

Panathinaikos missing players

Lamia missing players

Panathinaikos Lamia
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
19 9 4 Played P 3 7 17
10 5 4 Won W 0 0 2
4 2 0 Drew D 1 2 4
5 2 0 Lost L 2 5 11
22 10 7 Scored S 2 3 10
12 4 1 Conceded C 5 13 30
95% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 86% 88%
58% 56% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 86% 76%
21% 11% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 43% 41%
5% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 14% 18%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 6%
32% 22% 25% BTTS BTTS 67% 43% 35%
47% 56% 75% Clean Sheets C S 0% 14% 24%
26% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 57% 53%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.9 2.9 3.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.3 2.4 2.5
3 1 1 Red cards R C 1 1 3
 
8.4 8.6 8.2 Shots (avg) S ( 9 8.7 8.1
3.8 3.7 4.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 4 3.3
31% 30% 37% Goal Efficiency G E 17% 11% 18%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Lamia has the fewest matches under the total-line (5) in Super League
  • Lamia has the fewest points (2) away in Super League
  • Lamia has the most conceded goals (30) 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 away than home.
  • Lamia have yet to win a game away.
  • Panathinaikos has the most scored goals in the first half (14) in Super League
  • Panathinaikos have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Panathinaikos have scored more than double the goals of Lamia.

  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 19 16 3 0 48 7 10 10 0 0 28 2 9 6 3 0 20 5 41 51
2 Aris 19 12 3 4 24 11 10 6 1 3 12 7 9 6 2 1 12 4 13 39
3 AEK Athens 19 11 4 4 30 21 10 5 3 2 17 11 9 6 1 2 13 10 9 37
4 PAOK 19 10 6 3 32 18 9 6 3 0 17 7 10 4 3 3 15 11 14 36
5 Panathinaikos 19 10 4 5 22 12 9 5 2 2 10 4 10 5 2 3 12 8 10 34
6 Asteras Tripolis 19 8 6 5 19 19 9 5 2 2 9 7 10 3 4 3 10 12 0 30
7 Volos NFC 19 5 8 6 20 27 9 2 4 3 6 10 10 3 4 3 14 17 -7 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 19 5 4 10 18 29 10 2 3 5 9 17 9 3 1 5 9 12 -11 19
10 PAS Giannina 19 4 6 9 18 22 9 1 4 4 7 10 10 3 2 5 11 12 -4 18
11 Apollon Smirnis 18 5 3 10 18 23 8 1 1 6 9 15 10 4 2 4 9 8 -5 18
12 Panaitolikos 18 2 6 10 9 22 9 2 2 5 7 12 9 0 4 5 2 10 -13 12
13 Lamia 17 2 4 11 10 30 10 2 2 6 7 17 7 0 2 5 3 13 -20 10
14 Larissa 18 1 5 12 9 29 8 0 4 4 3 10 10 1 1 8 6 19 -20 8

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.