Match Report
Greece went into the game 3rd in the table on 10 points; Spain sat 1st on 19 — a 9-point gap. Greece ranked just 27th in the league on five-round form despite their 3rd table position. Scoring rates set the scale: Greece 1 scored and 1 conceded per game, Spain 1.88 and 0.63, with the league averaging 1.53.
Defeat had not touched Spain in 8 games, having scored in 6 consecutive games. From the last five rounds, Greece held 5 points of 15 and Spain 11.
The referee was S. Marciniak, with 100 matches in our database and 3.2 yellows per game on average. Olympiako Stadio Spyros Louis in Athens, capacity 69,618, hosted the game. On the scoreboard, Spain led 1-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-1 the final score.