The home boss Lucescu looking to encourage PAOK triumph against OFI

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Competition: Greece Super League
Competition: Sat 15.January
Match begins: 17:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Toumbas (28703 seats)

The standings reveals that 5 points divide the pair of rivals in this Super League fixture. PAOK enjoy both the points- and home advantage.

Insights:
  • PAOK have the most scored goals (33) in Super League
  • OFI have the most points from losing position (8) in Super League

Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 800 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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PAOK form and stats

PAOK are steadily winning Super League games and points here at Stadio Toumbas. 5 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats is the summary from 8 games. The team is able to perform also as the away side, as they are nurturing a very healthy winning streak of four straight victories regardless of arena.

PAOK's last game was hosting Panaitolikos (placed 10th) and winning 2-0.

Before that game, the 3-1 home victory against Larissa.

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 PAOK home games with this odds we find nine games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in five wins, three draws and one defeat. Looking at the victories, three matches were won by at least two goals.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for PAOK, as the Greek Cup home game vs AEK Athens is only four days away.

Goals decide football matches and PAOK are scoring many of them at home; 17 on target from 8 league matches. 10 goals have been conceded.

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OFI form and stats

4-3-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for OFI in their Super League matches away.

Two travels in a row for OFI, whose manager Nioplias could celebrate last time after the Super League win against Apollon Smirnis.

Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against PAS Giannina.

You'll want to know how OFI managed when outsiders such as today. Our database found four similar matches resulting in one away win, zero draws and three home wins.

OFI find the net regularly in their away games. 10 goals from 8 away fixtures in the league. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. The OFI defense is a tough nut to crack, having conceded less than half a goal per away game on average (4 goals in 8 games). It's worth mentioning that 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

The two duelists also met each other before this season: OFI - PAOK 1-3. Head-to-head numbers (for the last ten meetings): PAOK won nine games, one match ended with a draw and OFI got zero wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: nine / one

Top Goalscorers

PAOKJ. Kurtič
J. Kurtič
10 goals
OFIJ. Neira
J. Neira
4 goals

PAOK missing players

OFI missing players

PAOK OFI
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
16 8 4 Played P 2 8 17
10 5 1 Won W 1 4 6
1 1 1 Drew D 1 3 8
5 2 2 Lost L 0 1 3
33 17 7 Scored S 2 10 21
20 10 8 Conceded C 1 4 16
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 75% 76%
81% 75% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 62% 71%
62% 50% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 38% 41%
44% 38% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 18%
25% 38% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 6%
56% 50% 50% BTTS BTTS 50% 38% 53%
25% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 50% 41%
19% 25% 50% Failed to Score F T 50% 38% 29%
 
5.4 7.2 7.2 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4 4.1
4.2 2.9 2.5 Corners against (avg) C A 7 6.2 4.8
2.2 2.2 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4 3.1 2.8
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
12.6 13.5 11.5 Shots (avg) S ( 7 11.2 11.9
5.4 6 4.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 4 3.9
38% 35% 37% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 31% 32%
 
10.1 8 9.5 Shots against (avg) S A 14 14.4 12.5
3.5 3.1 4.2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.5 3.8 4.2
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • OFI have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
  • OFI have the fewest conceded goals (4) away in Super League
  • OFI have the most points from losing position (8) in Super League
  • PAOK have the most scored goals (33) in Super League
  • PAOK have the most scored goals in the second half (18) in Super League
  • PAOK have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • PAOK have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • PAOK haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 16 13 3 0 28 9 8 6 2 0 11 3 8 7 1 0 17 6 19 42
2 AEK Athens 16 10 3 3 29 16 7 5 0 2 13 6 9 5 3 1 16 10 13 33
3 PAOK 16 10 1 5 33 20 8 5 1 2 17 10 8 5 0 3 16 10 13 31
4 Panathinaikos 16 8 2 6 27 14 9 7 1 1 22 5 7 1 1 5 5 9 13 26
5 OFI 17 6 8 3 21 16 9 2 5 2 11 12 8 4 3 1 10 4 5 26
6 PAS Giannina 17 7 5 5 21 17 9 4 2 3 12 12 8 3 3 2 9 5 4 26
7 Aris 16 8 3 5 17 15 7 4 2 1 8 6 9 4 1 4 9 9 2 21
8 Asteras Tripolis 16 5 5 6 16 15 8 4 1 3 10 7 8 1 4 3 6 8 1 20
9 Volos NFC 15 5 3 7 27 30 8 4 0 4 13 12 7 1 3 3 14 18 -3 18
10 Panaitolikos 16 4 3 9 16 29 8 2 2 4 9 12 8 2 1 5 7 17 -13 15
11 Ionikos 16 3 5 8 13 21 7 2 3 2 7 7 9 1 2 6 6 14 -8 14
12 Lamia 16 2 5 9 13 22 8 0 3 5 8 15 8 2 2 4 5 7 -9 11
13 Atromitos 15 2 3 10 14 32 7 2 1 4 9 12 8 0 2 6 5 20 -18 9
14 Apollon Smirnis 14 1 5 8 7 26 8 1 4 3 4 9 6 0 1 5 3 17 -19 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.