Betting preview: Xanthi faced with a tough challenge when PAOK visits

Competition: Greece Super League
Date: Sun 31.March
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Xanthi FC Arena

Xanthi will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 38 points behind PAOK.

Xanthi and PAOK should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Xanthi form and stats

Xanthi have collected 16 points from their home games so far after 4-4-4. All in all it has been a very rough period for Xanthi who hasn’t won a game in their last ten attempts. Their previous win was against Atromitos.

In their previous game, the manager M. Rastavac led his Xanthi to a defeat in the Super League match away at Panionios. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Xanthi FC Arena. In the match before that, Xanthi hosted Asteras Tripolis and drew the game 0-0.

Xanthi aren't scoring a lot here at Xanthi FC Arena with only 10 goals from 12 games. Xanthi have only conceded 8 in these games.

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PAOK form and stats

The away performances of PAOK have been very solid so far with 10 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats. The question is whether this happy travelling can continue. The visitors have performed well in their home games as well, building a total win streak of four games. PAOK hope to make it five in this match. PAOK have won three away matches in a row now and will not be intimidated by being the visitors in this fixture.

PAOK play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-1 victory visiting Panaitolikos (placed 6th). Prior to that match, a home win 3-0 against Atromitos.

A quick return to home after this game, as PAOK are hosting Asteras Tripolis in the Greek Cup only two.

With an average of more than two away goals per game, PAOK are regular goalscorers on their travels. PAOK are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 7 times in 12 matches.

Head 2 Head

PAOK - Xanthi 2-0 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 1 Xanthi victory, 4 draws and 5 PAOK wins.

Top Goalscorers

E. Jendrišek
7 goals / 1 assists
D. Biseswar
6 goals / 6 assists
Maurício
5 goals / 2 assists

Xanthi missing players

PAOK missing players

Xanthi PAOK
Total Home Statistic Away Total
25 12 Played 13 25
72% 83% Over 0.5 100% 100%
40% 42% Over 1.5 92% 84%
20% 25% Over 2.5 54% 52%
4% 0% Over 3.5 15% 16%
0% 0% Over 4.5 0% 4%
28% 33% Both teams to score 38% 48%
40% 33% Clean Sheet 62% 52%
60% 50% Failed To Score 0% 0%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 PAOK 25 22 3 0 53 12 13 12 1 0 29 5 12 10 2 0 24 7 41 67
2 Olympiakos Piraeus 24 18 3 3 51 15 13 11 1 1 36 7 11 7 2 2 15 8 36 57
3 AEK Athens 25 15 5 5 38 15 13 9 3 1 23 5 12 6 2 4 15 10 23 47
4 Atromitos 25 12 7 6 35 24 12 7 3 2 19 10 13 5 4 4 16 14 11 43
5 Aris 25 12 4 9 34 25 12 7 2 3 19 7 13 5 2 6 15 18 9 40
6 Panaitolikos 25 9 6 10 32 33 13 6 4 3 21 14 12 3 2 7 11 19 -1 33
7 Panathinaikos 24 10 8 6 28 21 11 7 3 1 19 8 13 3 5 5 9 13 7 32
8 Lamia 25 7 9 9 21 29 12 5 4 3 12 13 13 2 5 6 9 16 -8 30
9 Panionios 25 8 5 12 22 39 13 6 3 4 14 10 12 2 2 8 8 29 -17 29
10 Xanthi 25 6 11 8 16 18 12 4 4 4 10 8 13 2 7 4 6 10 -2 29
11 Asteras Tripolis 25 7 6 12 20 27 13 5 3 5 12 13 12 2 3 7 8 14 -7 27
12 Larissa 25 6 9 10 22 28 12 5 4 3 15 9 13 1 5 7 7 19 -6 27
13 PAS Giannina 25 6 5 14 16 33 13 5 4 4 10 12 12 1 1 10 6 21 -17 23
14 OFI 25 4 10 11 22 37 13 4 5 4 14 14 12 0 5 7 8 23 -15 22
15 Levadiakos 25 5 5 15 14 33 12 4 3 5 9 13 13 1 2 10 5 20 -19 20
16 Apollon Smirnis 25 2 4 19 10 45 12 1 3 8 5 19 13 1 1 11 5 26 -35 10

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