PAOK vs AEK Athens preview

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Competition: Greece Super League
Competition: Sun 26.September
Match begins: 17:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Toumbas (28703 seats)

PAOK look forward to battle it out with AEK Athens in this Super League game. Everything you can know about the match is found right here!

Insights:
  • AEK Athens have the most scored goals (7) 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 PAOK and AEK Athens.

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PAOK form and stats

PAOK's first Super League home game here at Stadio Toumbas ended in defeat. Last season their home statistics were 11 wins, 6 draws and 1 defeat from 18 matches.

Happy days for PAOK in their previous game, a Super League match away at Panaitolikos (placed 6th) that ended with a 2-1 victory.

In the preceding match a 1-0 victory visiting Asteras Tripolis.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how PAOK have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found six games) they have won three times, drawn one and lost two.

Early season league goal statistics from PAOK's 1 home game: 0 goals, 1 conceded.

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AEK Athens form and stats

The visitors settled for one point in their first Super League away game of the season. During their previous season 18 away games resulted in 10 wins, 3 draws and 5 defeats.

Impressive finishing from Sergio Araujo secured the home win 1-0 against Lamia in their previous game.

Before that, Athens travelled to OFI and returned home with a draw after the game finished 3-3.

Athens are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, one draw and two defeats. From a total of four matches.

3 goals so far away for AEK Athens, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 3. All from 1 league match away.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - four - one (PAOK wins - draws - AEK Athens wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

AEK AthensS. Araújo
S. Araújo
2 goals
AEK AthensS. Zuber
S. Zuber
2 goals
PAOKA. Vieira Freitas
A. Vieira Freitas
1 goals

PAOK missing players

AEK Athens missing players

PAOK AEK Athens
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
3 1 1 Played P 1 1 3
2 0 0 Won W 0 0 2
0 0 0 Drew D 1 1 1
1 1 1 Lost L 0 0 0
3 0 0 Scored S 3 3 7
2 1 1 Conceded C 3 3 3
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
33% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 67%
33% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 100% 67%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 100% 33%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 100% 33%
33% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 100% 33%
33% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 67%
33% 100% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
4 8 8 Corners for (avg) C F 6 6 6.7
6.7 4 4 Corners against (avg) C A 4 4 2
2.3 2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 1.3
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
9.7 12 12 Shots (avg) S ( 13 13 16.7
4.7 4 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 5 7
21% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 60% 60% 33%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • AEK Athens have the most scored goals (7) in Super League
  • AEK Athens have the most scored goals in the second half (4) in Super League
PAOK Last season AEK Athens
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
36 18   Played P   18 36
18 11   Won W   10 17
10 6   Drew D   3 9
8 1   Lost L   5 10
60 37   Scored S   26 53
34 13   Conceded C   21 45
94% 94%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 97%
81% 83%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   67% 78%
53% 56%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   39% 47%
28% 39%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   28% 28%
6% 6%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   11% 11%
50% 50%   BTTS BTTS   44% 56%
36% 44%   Clean Sheets C S   33% 28%
19% 11%   Failed to Score F T   22% 19%
 
5.5 5.8   Corners for (avg) C F   3.7 4.9
2.9 3.5   Corners against (avg) C A   3.3 2.8
2.5 2.5   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   3 2.6
2 1   Red cards R C   2 4
 
13.1 13.5   Shots (avg) S (   9.8 11.3
5.4 5.9   Shots on Target (avg) S O   4.1 4.7
31% 35%   Goal Efficiency G E   36% 31%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 AEK Athens 3 2 1 0 7 3 2 2 0 0 4 0 1 0 1 0 3 3 4 7
2 Olympiakos Piraeus 3 2 1 0 6 2 2 1 1 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 4 7
3 Volos NFC 2 2 0 0 5 2 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 3 1 3 6
4 PAS Giannina 2 2 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 6
5 PAOK 3 2 0 1 3 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 2 0 0 3 1 1 6
6 Panaitolikos 3 1 1 1 3 3 2 0 1 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 4
7 Panathinaikos 3 1 0 2 4 2 1 1 0 0 4 0 2 0 0 2 0 2 2 3
8 OFI 3 0 3 0 3 3 2 0 2 0 3 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 3
9 Ionikos 2 1 0 1 1 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 -2 3
10 Asteras Tripolis 3 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 -1 2
11 Atromitos 2 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 -1 1
12 Lamia 3 0 0 3 2 5 1 0 0 1 1 2 2 0 0 2 1 3 -3 0
13 Apollon Smirnis 3 0 0 3 2 11 1 0 0 1 1 3 2 0 0 2 1 8 -9 0
14 Aris 3 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 -2
Last season 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 36 28 6 2 82 19 18 17 1 0 43 4 18 11 5 2 39 15 63 90
2 PAOK 36 18 10 8 60 34 18 11 6 1 37 13 18 7 4 7 23 21 26 64
3 Aris 36 17 10 9 41 26 18 9 4 5 20 12 18 8 6 4 21 14 15 61
4 AEK Athens 36 17 9 10 53 45 18 7 6 5 27 24 18 10 3 5 26 21 8 60
5 Panathinaikos 36 14 11 11 41 34 18 8 5 5 22 16 18 6 6 6 19 18 7 53
6 Asteras Tripolis 36 12 15 9 36 38 18 7 8 3 18 15 18 5 7 6 18 23 -2 51

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.