Super League preview: Can PAS Giannina edge out victory against Ionikos?

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Competition: Greece Super League
Competition: Sat 11.February
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Zosimades (7652 seats)

Super League: We're looking at an engrossing and important fight between PAS Giannina and Ionikos at Stadio Zosimades. This duo need points like a fish needs water!

Insights:
  • PAS Giannina have the most conceded goals (36) in Super League
  • Ionikos have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.

This looks to be an action-packed game with lots of spark and bustle as both sides are well recovered since they last ran out on the pitch. Get ready!

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PAS Giannina form and stats

3-4-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Super League numbers at home for PAS Giannina so far this season. With three draws from their last three games overall it has been a case of neither great nor terrible for PAS Giannina.

PAS Giannina drew their last game, 0-0 away at OFI (placed 10th). Midfielder Karachalios was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.83 (out of ten) in that game. Karachalios dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 26 successful passes (of 32 total).

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus Atromitos.

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 Giannina have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 11 games) they have won 7 times, drawn 2 and lost 2.

Sports gamblers, take note: A review of the 16 most recent league matches shows that 12 of them had at least one goal from each team.

PAS Giannina has scored 13 league goals at home this season, in 10 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 18 goals have been conceded.

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Ionikos form and stats

There's been little loot from Ionikos's travels as they have only collected 6 points from 10 away games in the Super League. Ionikos only have 2 wins to counter their 8 defeats and 0 draws. When Ionikos is visiting a side on the bottom half, they have won 2 of 3 matches. Ionikos, Lamia, OFI and Levadiakos is teams we like to compare PAS Giannina with.

Ionikos have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Eleftherios Choutesiotis. It's been 180 minutes since they last conceded in Super League.

Ionikos won their last game, 1-0 versus Aris played at home. Goalkeeper Choutesiotis got the top player rating of the team with 7.84/10. Choutesiotis topped it up with a clean sheet.

Preceding that game was the away victory against Lamia with the score of 2-0.

Ionikos are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 4 wins, 0 draws and 5 defeats. From a total of 9 matches.

Few goals the story here? 10 of this side's latest 12 league fixtures have had zero, one or two goals.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Ionikos as they have only managed to score 7 times from 10 away games in the league. Ionikos struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 16 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

PAS Giannina have pulled off a sequence of 7 consecutive matches without defeat (2-5-0) when facing Ionikos.

PAS Giannina and Ionikos have faced each other before this season: Ionikos - Giannina 2-2.

Top Goalscorers

PAS GianninaR. Erramuspe
R. Erramuspe
7 goals
PAS GianninaC. Balan
C. Balan
6 goals
IonikosV. Mantzis
V. Mantzis
5 goals

PAS Giannina missing players

Ionikos missing players

PAS Giannina Ionikos
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
21 10 3 Played P 3 10 21
4 3 1 Won W 2 2 3
8 4 2 Drew D 0 0 5
9 3 0 Lost L 1 8 13
22 13 5 Scored S 4 7 15
36 18 4 Conceded C 1 16 33
95% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
90% 90% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 70% 71%
57% 70% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 30% 33%
29% 40% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 19%
5% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 10% 10%
67% 80% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 30% 43%
5% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 67% 20% 19%
33% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 50% 43%
 
3.8 4.5 4.7 Corners for (avg) C F 4 3.1 3.2
5 4.6 3.3 Corners against (avg) C A 6 5.6 5
2.1 2.2 1.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 5.7 3.3 3
1 0 0 Red cards R C 1 2 2
 
9.7 11.3 13.3 Shots (avg) S ( 8.7 8 9.2
2.7 3.8 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.7 3.3 3.4
39% 34% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 36% 21% 21%
 
11.7 11.7 9.7 Shots against (avg) S A 13.7 14.9 12.9
3.4 3.5 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 3.6 4
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Ionikos have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Ionikos haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • PAS Giannina have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • PAS Giannina have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • PAS Giannina have the fewest clean sheets (0) at home in Super League
  • PAS Giannina have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Super League
  • PAS Giannina have the most conceded goals (36) in Super League
  • PAS Giannina have the most conceded goals in the second half (25) in Super League
  • PAS Giannina have the most matches over the total-line (12) in Super League
  • PAS Giannina haven’t played a single 0-0 game at 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 AEK Athens 20 15 2 3 41 9 10 9 0 1 23 3 10 6 2 2 18 6 32 47
2 Panathinaikos 20 14 3 3 28 11 10 7 2 1 13 6 10 7 1 2 15 5 17 45
3 Olympiakos Piraeus 20 12 6 2 35 12 10 7 2 1 19 5 10 5 4 1 16 7 23 42
4 PAOK 20 12 6 2 32 13 10 7 2 1 16 7 10 5 4 1 16 6 19 42
5 Aris 20 9 4 7 28 17 10 7 2 1 20 5 10 2 2 6 8 12 11 31
6 Volos NFC 20 8 5 7 24 33 10 4 1 5 14 22 10 4 4 2 10 11 -9 29
7 Atromitos 20 6 7 7 21 21 10 4 5 1 12 7 10 2 2 6 9 14 0 25
8 Panaitolikos 20 6 5 9 23 29 10 2 2 6 8 16 10 4 3 3 15 13 -6 23
9 Asteras Tripolis 20 4 9 7 15 23 10 4 5 1 8 3 10 0 4 6 7 20 -8 21
10 OFI 20 4 7 9 17 25 10 2 3 5 6 11 10 2 4 4 11 14 -8 19
11 PAS Giannina 20 4 7 9 22 36 10 3 4 3 13 18 10 1 3 6 9 18 -14 19
12 Levadiakos 20 2 7 11 12 25 10 2 4 4 7 11 10 0 3 7 5 14 -13 13
13 Lamia 20 1 9 10 8 33 10 1 4 5 6 17 10 0 5 5 2 16 -25 12
14 Ionikos 20 2 5 13 14 33 10 0 5 5 7 17 10 2 0 8 7 16 -19 11

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.