Akropolis supporters put their faith in manager G. Christopoulos to deliver victory against AFC Eskilstuna

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Competition: Sweden Superettan
Competition: Fri 16.October
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Grimsta IP (5500 seats)

5th position in the Superettan table for Akropolis so far, a good performance. The home supporters hope for more joy as 10th-placed AFC Eskilstuna visits Grimsta IP.

There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Superettan game only four days ago.

This stadium uses grass, unlike AFC Eskilstuna's home stadium. The visitors last 30 games on grass have ended in 4 wins, 11 draws and 15 losses.

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Akropolis form and stats

Overall Superettan stats at home this season for Akropolis are 3-8-0 (wins-draw-losses). In general it's been a long time since Akropolis tasted defeat here at Grimsta IP, as they have taken at least one point from their last 18 home games in the league. The trend of drawing games is also valid regardless of arena as Akropolis has four draws from their last four matches.

Akropolis drew their last game, 1-1 away at Trelleborg (placed 14th). Before that, Akropolis drew at home versus Umeå.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Akropolis handle that role? We have found seven games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are two wins, five draws and zero defeats.

A decent goal production from Akropolis in their home games so far, with 17 goals from 11 league matches. Akropolis have conceded 12 in these home matches. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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AFC Eskilstuna form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for AFC Eskilstuna so far with only 11 points returning home. The records show 3-2-6 (win-draw-lose). Having won their last three away games Eskilstuna has no reason to fear anyone.

O. Nnamani scored in Eskilstuna's previous match, the home game against Orgryte that ended 1-0. Ahead of that match was the victory versus GIF Sundsvall at their stadium, the result 3-2.

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

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Eskilstuna have scored 11 goals in 11 league games away. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. For AFC Eskilstuna, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

The last H2H meeting was AFC Eskilstuna - Akropolis 1-2, played this season. Last seven meetings between the teams: Akropolis won two, AFC Eskilstuna won three and two draws. four games with over 2,5 goals, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

AFC EskilstunaO. Nnamani
O. Nnamani
10 goals
AkropolisM. Burman
M. Burman
5 goals

Akropolis missing players

AFC Eskilstuna missing players

Akropolis AFC Eskilstuna
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
22 11 3 Played P 3 11 22
7 3 1 Won W 0 3 7
13 8 2 Drew D 0 2 4
2 0 0 Lost L 3 6 11
32 17 5 Scored S 1 11 24
26 12 3 Conceded C 10 22 38
95% 91% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 91% 91%
86% 82% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 82% 77%
41% 36% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 73% 64%
27% 36% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 27% 27%
9% 9% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 27% 23%
77% 64% 67% BTTS BTTS 33% 45% 50%
23% 36% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 27% 27%
5% 9% 0% Failed to Score F T 67% 36% 32%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.6 1.1 0.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.7 2
1 0 0 Red cards R C 1 2 2
 
154 84 30 Total Shots T S 13 53 133
75 40 15 Shots on Target S O 3 19 50
43% 42% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 42% 42%
Key stats in Superettan this season:
  • AFC Eskilstuna have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Akropolis has the fewest scored goals in the second half (9) in Superettan
  • Akropolis have not yet lost a 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 Degerfors 22 15 5 2 51 17 11 9 0 2 28 10 11 6 5 0 23 7 34 50
2 Halmstad 22 13 5 4 37 15 11 7 1 3 20 9 11 6 4 1 17 6 22 44
3 Jonkopings Sodra 22 13 3 6 39 27 12 9 2 1 24 9 10 4 1 5 15 18 12 42
4 Oster 22 11 6 5 32 25 10 6 2 2 17 10 12 5 4 3 15 15 7 39
5 Akropolis 22 7 13 2 32 26 11 3 8 0 17 12 11 4 5 2 15 14 6 34
6 Brage 22 9 6 7 30 28 11 4 4 3 14 11 11 5 2 4 16 17 2 33
7 GIF Sundsvall 22 8 6 8 38 34 11 5 2 4 22 17 11 3 4 4 16 17 4 30
8 GAIS 22 7 7 8 22 30 11 5 4 2 12 9 11 2 3 6 10 21 -8 28
9 Orgryte 22 7 5 10 24 31 11 6 1 4 16 14 11 1 4 6 8 17 -7 26
10 AFC Eskilstuna 22 7 4 11 24 38 11 4 2 5 13 16 11 3 2 6 11 22 -14 25
11 Norrby 22 5 9 8 24 29 11 3 3 5 13 14 11 2 6 3 11 15 -5 24
12 Västerås SK 22 6 5 11 27 36 11 5 3 3 19 16 11 1 2 8 8 20 -9 23
13 Dalkurd 22 4 10 8 28 29 11 3 7 1 17 10 11 1 3 7 11 19 -1 22
14 Trelleborg 22 5 7 10 23 28 12 3 6 3 14 12 10 2 1 7 9 16 -5 22
15 Umeå 22 3 9 10 20 37 11 1 5 5 10 20 11 2 4 5 10 17 -17 18
16 Ljungskile 22 3 6 13 22 43 10 3 3 4 13 15 12 0 3 9 9 28 -21 15

Read more about Superettan

Superettan (meaning “the super one” in English) is the second highest league in the Swedish football league pyramid. It runs from April to October and has 16 teams. After a total of 240 fixtures the top two teams in the league table are promoted, while another can promote through a playoff.