Delightful dogfight as daring Volos NFC duels with determined Lamia

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Competition: Greece Super League
Competition: Sun 17.January
Match begins: 15:15 (UTC)
Venue: Panthessaliko Stadio (22700 seats)

With their 14 point advantage in the league table, Volos NFC fans are hoping to see their team collect maximum points from this game against Lamia.

Insights:
  • Lamia has the fewest scored goals (8) in Super League

Lamia could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Super League game only three sleeps ago. That game was also an away game, at Atromitos. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.

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Volos NFC form and stats

2 victories, 3 draws and 2 defeats. That’s what Volos NFC have to build on here at Panthessaliko Stadio in the Super League.

Volos lost their last game at PAOK (placed 3rd) after a 1-3 scoreline. Heartbreak before that as Volos NFC lost 0-2 at Aris's place.

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 Volos have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found three games) they have won one time, drawn one and lost one.

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as OFI are coming to town in three days.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Volos NFC here at Panthessaliko Stadio in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (5 from 7 games). Volos have conceded 7 in these home matches.

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Lamia form and stats

The manager B. Tennes is not happy with the away performances in the Super League so far, as all 5 matches have been lost. It's all red in the travel logs of Lamia, having lost five matches in a row as the visiting team. Three has not been a lucky number for Lamia as they have been defeated three times in a row since the Aris match.

It might be tough going out on the road again for Lamia, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 1-2 versus Atromitos (placed 7th). The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-1 defeat against AEK Athens.

Lamia are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is three wins, five draws and four defeats. From a total of twelve matches.

Goals are few and far between in Lamia's away league games. Only 2 goals from 5 travels. Lamia have conceded 12 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Lamia - Volos NFC 1-2 entered in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last seven matches): Volos two wins, three draws and Lamia two victories. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

VolosA. Douvikas
A. Douvikas
5 goals
Volos NFCJ. Barrientos Díaz
J. Barrientos Díaz
3 goals
Volos NFCJ. Bartolo
J. Bartolo
2 goals

Volos NFC missing players

Lamia missing players

Volos NFC Lamia
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
16 7 3 Played P 2 5 14
4 2 1 Won W 0 0 1
7 3 2 Drew D 0 0 2
5 2 0 Lost L 2 5 11
18 5 3 Scored S 1 2 8
24 7 2 Conceded C 4 12 29
88% 71% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 93%
75% 43% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 86%
44% 29% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 60% 50%
31% 14% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 21%
19% 14% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 7%
62% 43% 67% BTTS BTTS 50% 40% 36%
25% 43% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 14%
25% 43% 33% Failed to Score F T 50% 60% 57%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
3.1 3 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 2.2 2.4
5 3 2 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
8.5 10.3 13.3 Shots (avg) S ( 6.5 7 7.1
3.3 3.7 4.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.2 2.9
34% 19% 21% Goal Efficiency G E 17% 12% 20%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • All of Lamia's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Lamia has the fewest matches under the total-line (3) in Super League
  • Lamia has the fewest points (0) away in Super League
  • Lamia has the fewest scored goals (8) in Super League
  • Lamia has the most conceded goals (29) in Super League
  • Lamia has the most conceded goals in the first half (13) in Super League
  • Lamia has the the worst goal difference (-21) in Super League
  • Lamia have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Lamia have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Lamia have lost all their away matches so far.
  • Lamia have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Lamia haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Volos NFC 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 16 13 3 0 43 7 8 8 0 0 24 2 8 5 3 0 19 5 36 42
2 Aris 15 10 3 2 22 9 7 5 1 1 11 5 8 5 2 1 11 4 13 33
3 PAOK 16 9 5 2 27 13 8 6 2 0 15 5 8 3 3 2 12 8 14 32
4 AEK Athens 15 9 3 3 25 16 8 4 3 1 15 8 7 5 0 2 10 8 9 30
5 Panathinaikos 16 7 4 5 17 12 8 4 2 2 8 4 8 3 2 3 9 8 5 25
6 Asteras Tripolis 16 5 6 5 15 19 7 3 2 2 6 7 9 2 4 3 9 12 -4 21
7 Atromitos 16 5 6 5 16 21 9 4 3 2 12 11 7 1 3 3 4 10 -5 21
8 OFI 16 5 4 7 18 23 8 2 3 3 9 13 8 3 1 4 9 10 -5 19
9 Volos NFC 16 4 7 5 18 24 7 2 3 2 5 7 9 2 4 3 13 17 -6 19
10 Apollon Smirnis 15 4 3 8 17 21 7 1 1 5 9 14 8 3 2 3 8 7 -4 15
11 PAS Giannina 16 3 6 7 16 20 8 1 4 3 7 9 8 2 2 4 9 11 -4 15
12 Panaitolikos 16 2 5 9 9 20 8 2 1 5 7 12 8 0 4 4 2 8 -11 11
13 Larissa 15 1 5 9 9 26 7 0 4 3 3 9 8 1 1 6 6 17 -17 8
14 Lamia 14 1 2 11 8 29 9 1 2 6 6 17 5 0 0 5 2 12 -21 5

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.