Here are some interesting facts and figures from PAOK’ previous encounters against Panetolikos:

6 victories for PAOK in 8 home and away encounters against Panetolikos. The “Double-Headed Eagle” were riding on an 6-0-0 run (15-3 goals) before their last two trips to Agrinio.

1 match played by PAOK on a Monday last season. They went on to prevail 2-0 over PAS at Giannina, courtesy of strikes by Lucas and Costin Lazăr. In 2012-13, they played at Giannina once again on a Monday and edged out a 3-1 victory with a brace by Dimitris Salpingidis and a goal by Stefanos Athanasiadis. A few months earlier, also on a Monday, they were beaten 1-0 by Atromitos at Perister for matchday 2 of the league.

1 goal scored by Angelos Anastasiadis in the two matches he played against Panetolikos in his career. In 1975-76 he scored the last goal of PAOK in their comprehensive 4-1 victory. The two teams had met earlier in the first round of fixtures at Agrinio that season, with Anastasiadis coming off the bench to substitute Paridis.

2 victories in as many matches against Panetolikos for coach Angelos Anastasiadis, at the helm of PAS Giannina and Platanias. In 2011-12, he prevailed 1-0 over the Agrinio outfit at Giannina. As Platanias’ coach, he celebrated another 1-0 victory on 6 April 2014 at Chania.

5 goals scored by PAOK in their last encounters against Panetolikos, but none of the scorers remains nowadays at the “Double-Headed Eagle”. Those scorers were: Lucas, Bruno Cirillo, Vieirinha , Sakis Papazoglou and Juliano Spadacio.