📊 Form Guide
OFI Crete LLWLLL 📉
OFI Crete won’t want a repeat of their last result here following the 3-0 Super League defeat last time out to Asteras Tripolis.
In that match, OFI Crete managed 43% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Asteras Tripolis had 21 shots on goal with 7 on target. Julián Chicco (23') and Julián Bartolo (71', 76') scored for Asteras Tripolis.
Three or more goals per match have been seen in 6 of the last 6 fixtures where OFI Crete have participated. Opposing sides scored 17 times in these games whereas OFI Crete managed a tally of 7. That kind of trend isn’t assured to be carried forward into this match, however.
Coming into this fixture, OFI Crete are winless against AEK Athens in their last 3 matches in the league.
AEK Athens WLWLWD
In the game prior to this, AEK Athens drew 1-1 in the Conference League tie with Shamrock Rovers.
In that match, AEK Athens had 80% possession and 29 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. The scorer for AEK Athens was Luka Jović (90'). Shamrock Rovers had 1 attempts at goal with 1 on target. Graham Burke (21') was the scorer for Shamrock Rovers.
A tendency of at least one team not scoring a goal in games involving AEK Athens has become apparent in recent matches. Looking at their last six games reveals that this has happened 5 times. In these clashes, their opponents have hit a goal tally of 7 while AEK Athens have scored 10.
👥 Head to head
A glance at their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 09/11/2022 shows that OFI Crete have won 1 of these games & AEK Athens 5, with the number of drawn results standing at 0.
17 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 3 for Omilos and 14 belonging to AEK. The average goals per game has been 2.83.
The previous league encounter between the two was Super League match day 14 on 08/12/2024 and the score finished OFI Crete 1-2 AEK Athens.
That time, OFI Crete had 20% possession and 3 shots at goal with 3 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Zisis Karachalios (36').
For their opponents, AEK Athens had 16 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. Harold Moukoudi (45') and Anthony Martial (87') scored.
The referee was Stavros Tsimenteridis.
📰 Team News: OFI Crete
The OFI Crete boss Christos Kontis will be happy not to have any fitness worries whatsoever coming into this game owing to a completely injury-free squad available for selection.
🗞️ Team News: AEK Athens
Owing to a completely healthy group ready to go, the AEK Athens manager Marko Nikolić doesn’t have any fitness worries to report coming into this match.
🔮 Prediction
It looks to us that this AEK Athens will most probably have the majority of the possession and should turn some of their chances into goals.
At the same time, OFI Crete could well struggle to get goals of their own but we do fancy them getting enough chances to score, too.
We’re therefore expecting to see a controlled 1-3 margin for AEK Athens at the end of this one.