Olympiacos will take to the pitch with guests Lamia at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium in this Super League fixture on Sunday.
Our tips, poll and stats for Olympiacos v Lamia can all be found here (including the best match odds).
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Form Guide
Olympiacos
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Olympiacos go into this match following a 1-1 Super League drawn game vs Aris FC.
In that game, Olympiacos managed 62% possession and 23 shots at goal with 9 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Olympiacos was Gelson Martins (53'). Aris FC had 16 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Loren Morón (48') scored for Aris FC.
It has been all too rare in recent games that Olympiacos have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that Olympiacos have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 6 goals along the way.
Lamia
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In the game prior to this, Lamia drew 1-1 in the Super League tie with PAOK.
In that match, Lamia managed 46% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 2 on target. The scorer for Lamia was Vykintas Slivka (45'). PAOK got 15 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Stefan Schwab (100') scored for PAOK.
In as many as 5 of the previous 6 games involving Lamia, at least three goals have gone in. The overall average number of goals per match during that spell is 3.83, with the average number of goals for Lamia working out to 0.67. That kind of trend might not be sustained here, though.
Ahead of this clash, Lamia are without an away win for the past 5 league games.
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Head to head
A look at their most recent head to head meetings stretching back to 19/12/2021 shows us that Olympiacos have won 5 of them & Lamia 1, with the tally of drawn games standing at 0.
A total of 17 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 15 of them for Τhrylos and 2 netted by Kyanólefki. That’s an average goals per game of 2.83.
The previous league encounter between the two was Super League match day 4 on 07/04/2024 when it ended Lamia 1-5 Olympiacos.
That time, Lamia had 44% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. The goals were scored by Kyriakos Papadopoulos (45' Own goal), Georgios Kornezos (81' Own goal) and Toshio Lake (88').
On the other side, Olympiacos had 19 attempts on goal with 10 of them on target. Stevan Jovetić (22'), Ayoub El Kaabi (26') and Youssef El-Arabi (85') scored.
The match was refereed by Alexandros Tsakalidis.
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Team News: Olympiacos
The Olympiacos manager José Mendilibar has no fitness concerns at all before this match thanks to a fully injury-free squad available to select from.
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Team News: Lamia
With a fully healthy squad available to select from, the Lamia boss Leonidas Vokolos has no fitness concerns at all ahead of this clash.
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Prediction
It looks to us that Olympiacos are likely to have the majority of the possession and should be able to turn a few of their chances into goals.
At the same time, Lamia are also probably going to find it difficult to make a breakthrough but we do think that it’s more than likely that they will be converting at least once here.
We’re tipping a fairly comfortable 3-1 margin for Olympiacos when all’s said and done.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Renata Leite,
16:10 26/04/2024
⚽️ 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 (Semi-finals)
⭐ Star Man: Giorgos Masouras
Customarily taking to the field in the Right Wing position, Giorgos Masouras was born in Greece. Having played his first senior match for Panionios in the 2014 - 2015 season, the goalscoring Forward has scored a sum of 7 league goals in this Super League 2023 - 2024 season so far from a total of 29 appearances.