Match Report
15 points separated the sides: Panaitolikos 5th on 37, Apollon Smirnis 8th on 22. Apollon Smirnis's recent output lagged their position: 23rd on form over five rounds while 8th in the table. Against a league average of 1.19 goals per team per game, Apollon Smirnis ran at 1 scored and 1.43 conceded, Panaitolikos at 0.71 and 1.29.
Apollon Smirnis arrived off four straight defeats. Apollon Smirnis had banked 3 of the last 15 points on offer; Panaitolikos, 10.
11 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Apollon Smirnis 3, draws 3, Panaitolikos 5, at 1.64 goals per meeting. The fixture trends low-scoring: over two goals in just 27% of the meetings. The recent editions have closed up — 0.8 goals per game over the last five against 1.64 all-time.
The venue was Stadio Georgios Kamaras in Athens, with room for 14,200 spectators. Apollon Smirnis led 1-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 1-0.