📏 Form Guide

Aris FC

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Aris FC will be looking to improve on their last outing here after a 2-1 Super League losing effort in their last game against Asteras Tripolis.

In that game, Aris FC managed 61% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. The only player to score for Aris FC was Álvaro Zamora (30'). Asteras Tripolis had 12 shots at goal with 3 on target. Evgeniy Yablonskiy (59') and Federico Macheda (76') scored for Asteras Tripolis.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent games where Aris FC have kept a clean sheet. In fact, Aris FC have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 10 goals in the process. We will have to see whether or not that trend will end up being sustained here.

Heading into this contest, Aris FC are undefeated in their previous 2 home league matches.

OFI Crete

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OFI Crete will come into the clash after a 4-0 Super League win in the defeat of Volos in their last game.

In that match, OFI Crete had 67% possession and 19 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. For OFI Crete, the goals were scored by Taxiarchis Fountas (32'), Thiago Nuss (64') and Giannis Theodosoulakis (90'). Volos had 9 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Alexios Kalogeropoulos (41' Own goal) scored for Volos.

Throughout their six latest matches, Milan Rastavac's OFI Crete have found the back of the net 8 times therefore giving them the goals scored per game average of 1.33.

Looking at their past form shows that OFI Crete:

• have not registered a win against Aris FC in away games against them for the last 14 league games. An unbelievably poor away record.
• have not been beaten in their last 2 league matches away from home.
• are without a win away from home in their last 3 league games.

👥 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head meetings going back to 16/12/2021, it’s been all-even between these two clubs with Aris FC winning 2 of those games, OFI Crete 2 and 2 being draws in normal time.

18 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 10 from Theos tou polemou and 8 created by Omilos. That is an average goals per game value of 3.

The last league encounter between these sides was Super League match day 4 on 15/09/2024 which finished with the scoreline of OFI Crete 3-2 Aris FC.

On that occasion, OFI Crete had 35% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. The goalscorers were Andrew Jung (21'), Vasilis Lampropoulos (57') and Eddie Salcedo (82').

Aris FC had 18 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Loren Morón (68', 88') was the scorer.

The referee was Anastasios Sidiropoulos.

🗞️ Team News: OFI Crete

OFI Crete boss Milan Rastavac has to currently contend with reduced team options. Fotis Koutsoupias (Cruciate ligament tear), Adrián Riera (Hamstring injury) and Filip Bainovic (Cruciate ligament tear) are not ready for selection.

🧠 Prediction

We envisage that Aris FC will probably get the win and a possible clean sheet when they play OFI Crete, who may well find it hard getting goals.

We can therefore see a fairly comfortable 2-0 win for Aris FC when the full-time whistle blows.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 14:02 05/01/2025