PAOK make the trip to Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium on Sunday for the Super League game with hosts Olympiacos.
All Olympiacos v PAOK match predictions, user poll and stats are shown below - as well as up-to-date odds.
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Form Guide
Olympiacos
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Olympiacos won’t want a repeat of their last result here following the 1-0 Conference League loss in their previous game against Fenerbahçe.
Matches involving Olympiacos have proved to be lively encounters recently with plenty of scoring expected. Over their past 6 games alone, the sum total of 26 goals have been scored for both sides combined (at an average of 4.33 goals per game) with 18 of them belonging to Olympiacos.
PAOK
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Following on from being defeated in their last game at the hands of Club Brugge in Conference League competition, PAOK will be hoping to turn things around here.
Ferrán Jutglà (33', 45') was the scorer for Club Brugge.
Demonstrating their penchant for productive matches, we’ve seen goals 21 times in the last 6 games in which PAOK have sent out their troops, giving a mean average of 3.5 goals for each fixture. Their opponents have got 8 from this total. We will find out whether or not that trend can be continued on here.
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Head to head
Looking at their prior head to head meetings going back to 17/10/2022 tells us that Olympiacos have won 3 of these games and PAOK 2, with the tally of drawn results standing at 1.
An aggregate of 19 goals were scored between them in this period, with 11 of them for Τhrylos and 8 created by Dikefalos tou Vorra. That’s an average goals per game of 3.17.
The last league fixture featuring these sides was Super League match day 23 on 18/02/2024 which ended up with the score at PAOK 1-4 Olympiacos.
On that occasion, PAOK had 52% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Their only player to score was Kiril Despodov (39').
Olympiacos had 10 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. Fran Navarro (29'), Daniel Podence (54') and Ayoub El Kaabi (83', 90') scored.
The match was refereed by Christian Dingert.
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Team News: Olympiacos
The Olympiacos boss José Mendilibar will be grateful not to have any fitness concerns to speak of coming into this match thanks to a completely healthy group available to select from.
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Team News: PAOK
Owing to an otherwise full-strength squad, there’s just the sole fitness problem for the PAOK gaffer Răzvan Lucescu to contend with. William Troost-Ekong (bruise) won’t be in action.
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Prediction
Looking at these two teams, we feel that PAOK are capable enough to put one past this Olympiacos lineup, but that is unlikely to be enough to avoid defeat.
We’re tipping both teams to score in a 2-1 advantage for Olympiacos by the conclusion of the game. Let’s wait and see how it plays out.
Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Renata Leite,
02:10 19/04/2024
⚽️ Team Focus:
Olympiacos
Formed: 1925
Stadium: Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium (33,334)
Captain: Kostas Fortounis
Chairman: Evangelos Marinakis
Manager: José Mendilibar
Competitions: Super League position 4, Europa League Qualifiers (Play-Offs), Conference League (Quarter-finals)
⭐ Star Player: Giorgos Masouras
Regularly used in the Right Wing position, Giorgos Masouras was born in Greece. Having made a first senior appearance for Panionios in the 2014 - 2015 season, the talented Forward has scored a sum of 7 league goals in the Super League 2023 - 2024 campaign so far from a total of 28 appearances.