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Olympiacos vs. PAOK: Facts & Figures
Ahead of PAOK’s Stoiximan Super League Play Offs Matchday 5 derby showdown with Olympiacos at the “Georgios Karaiskakis”, paokfc.gr puts you in the picture about the background to the match, as well as a look back at our previous encounters against the Erythrolefki.
- PAOK will visit Olympiacos for the71st time since the establishment of the Greek top flight in the 1959-60 season.
- The 4-2 victory that the Double-headed Eagle achieved during the regular season of this year’s championship was the 13th that they celebrated against the Red and Whites. PAOK habe won in Pireaus in the last two seasons in the regular season league games, while they were defeated in last year’s Play Offs by a 3-1 scoreline.
- The two teams have created a paradoxical statistic, since only one of their last 10 games in all competitions has been won by the home team and that was last year’s game in the Play Offs, when the Red and Whites took the victory.
- In the 70 games that have been played with Olympiacos the home team, the Red and Whites have won 48 times, PAOK have recorded 13 wins, and nine games have ended in draws.
- In their last 10 visits to Olympiacos‘ home ground, PAOK have won four times, drawn two times and lost four times.
- On July 12, 2020, PAOK prevailed 1-0 thanks to Mihaj’s goal and deprived Olympiacos of an unbeaten league championship, since no other team in the Super League had managed to beat them until then.
- PAOK, in their first visit in the history of the top flight to Olympiacos, came away with the victory, thanks to the goals of Symeonidis (38′), Havanidis (42′), while the home team had taken the lead with Polychroniou (31′) on target. In fact, PAOK were not defeated in their first three matches against Olympiacos, since in their second visit to the Karaiskakis they drew 1-1 (49′ Yfantis – 89′ Vassiliadis).
- PAOK’s biggest victory at Olympiacos was on January 4, 1976 via a 4-0 result, where goals from Terzanidis (24′), Koudas (56′, 63′) and Guerino (78′) marked the triumph in a year where the club were also crowned champions.
- On February 23, 2003, Pantelis Kafes found the net three times in PAOK’s 4-3 defeat in Rizoupoli and he is the only PAOK player to have scored a hat- trick in an away game against Olympiacos.
- Olympiacos had 17 unbeaten matches in the championship at their renovated Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium (15 wins, two draws) until PAOK’s second visit there on October 16, 2005. With two goals by Pantelis Konstantinidis , PAOK responded perfectly to Yaya Toure’s free-kick, took the victory and at the same time broke the home side’s undeafeated streak.
- Giorgos Koudas is the player who has scored three goals in away matches with Olympiacos and has four more in matches where PAOK was the home team. Overall, in both grounds, he is at the top, together with Afentoulidis, Skartados, while Sarafis has six goals.
