PAOK take on the visitors Panathinaikos at the Toumba Stadium in the 8th tour of the Greek Super League. The match will be played in Thessaloniki on Monday, October 29th.
PAOK have won all of their seven matches they have had so far this Greek Super League season. Furthermore, they have already scored twelve goals and have conceded only two overall in that period. Also, the team of Razvan Lucescu has been competing in the UEFA Europa League group stage recently. Even though they lost to MOL Vidi last tour there in front of their home crowd PAOK still have chances of going through to the play-offs of the tournament. Interestingly, the squad of the team is full of the legionaries. There are only nine Greek players in the squad of PAOK and three of them are goalkeepers. Thereby it is not surprising at all that the team of Razvan Lucescu has been pretty successful lately. In their last three matches PAOK lost to MOL Vidi with a 0-2 score in their UEFA Europa League group stage fixture, beat Aris with a 2-1 score and Smyrnis with a 2-0 score.
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Last season Panathinaikos failed completely and placed eleventh in the Greek Super League. Now they are very motivated to get back to the top tier category in the table. I Prasini have won six and have drawn one game against Asteras Tripolis out of their seven matches they have already had in the league this season. Interestingly, the team of Giorgos Donis has even scored two goals more than the leader of the Greek Super League so far. On the other hand, they have conceded two goals more than the leader too. Unlike PAOK there are almost no legionaries in the squad of To Trifylli. Such footballers as Ousmane Coulibaly, Emanuel Insua and Federico Macheda are practically the only foreign players in the team right now. In their last three matches Panathinaikos beat Panionios with a 1-0 score, drew against Asteras Tripolis with a 1-1 score and beat Panetolikos with a 1-0 score in the Round 1 of the Greek Cup second round.
The upcoming match is the match of the tour in the Greek Super League. Both PAOK and Panathinaikos are among the leaders in the table right now. Interestingly, there were more than 2.5 goals scored in nine of their last ten fixtures between them. Despite of that fact the match on Monday is unlikely to be that productive. First of all, both teams have been showing solid performances in the defense recently. PAOK have been especially good in that aspect and their newcomers Alin Tosca and Yevhen Khacheridi have been pretty successful in their respective roles so far. Furthermore, there are some high skilled veterans in the team of Razvan Lucescu such as Jose Angel Crespo from Spain and Leo Matos from Brazil. The offensive legionaries of the team have also been showing good performances lately. The usual playing style of PAOK though is to score one or two goals and to lock up in their defense. After they do that they try to save their energy for their following games. It`s worth noting that there has been under 2.5 goals scored in five of seven fixtures PAOK has had this Greek Super League season. The upcoming match will be for the first place in the league so the teams will most likely try to play carefully. PAOK will most likely be a little bit tired after their recent UEFA Europa League game against MOL Vidi. They should set a low tempo for their match on Monday. Thereby we are likely to see only a few goals scored in the upcoming fixture between PAOK and Panathinaikos.
Prediction for the match: Under 2.5 goals scored.
