AEK Athens FC vs Zorya Luhansk — UEFA Europa League 2026
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 6+ matches
AEK Athens FC33%
Zorya Luhansk44%✓ Correct in 51 of 100 matches — 6 more than always backing the home side
The model picks a winner (home or away) for each finished match using only pre-kickoff data, then checks it against the real result: 50.6% correct across 576,853 matches, vs 44.7% for always backing the home side.
Home picks 50.9% correct · Away picks 49.7% correct
Football matches only. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Expected goals in this match
What is xG?
Every shot is scored 0–1 by how likely it is to be a goal from that spot — a chance in the middle of the box ≈ 0.4, a long shot from a tight angle ≈ 0.03, a penalty ≈ 0.76. Add them up over a match and that is the xG.
The scoreline can lie: you can win 1-0 on a fluke while creating half the chances. xG shows who was really closer to scoring — and over a season it predicts results better than goals alone.
Zorya Luhansk creates 18% more chances
Season form · 6 home / 8 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Over64
- Under36
3+ goals likely
Both teams score
- Yes65
- No35
Both teams likely to score
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
AEK Athens FC ↓
Most likely 1–1 (10%) · grid covers 95% of scorelines
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Total goals
Double chance
Winning margin
Team goals
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Combos
Model probabilities, not odds. For information only.
How is this calculated?
Every number below comes from this match — nothing is made up.
Recent form of each side
AEK Athens FC at home — creates 1.17, concedes 2.33 · 6 matches
Zorya Luhansk away — creates 1.25, concedes 1.88 · 8 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
AEK Athens FC attack 1.17 + Zorya Luhansk defence 1.88 → ÷2 → 1.52
Zorya Luhansk attack 1.25 + AEK Athens FC defence 2.33 → ÷2 → 1.79
Each side's attack is blended with the other's defence, then averaged.
Chance of every scoreline
From those two numbers a Poisson distribution gives the probability of each exact score — the grid shown above.
The answer to "why 44%?"
Zorya Luhansk at 44% is simply the biggest of the three — that is the pick.
What the model can't see
It reads only the stats of recent matches. It knows nothing about:
- injuries & suspensions
- the matchday lineup
- motivation — cup, relegation, a title race
- weather & pitch condition
- in-game coaching decisions
So 44% does not mean "Zorya Luhansk will win" — it means "on the available stats, this is the most likely result."
Statistical model based on expected goals (xG). For informational purposes only.
Player of the match
Match Events
AEK Athens FC substitutes
Zorya Luhansk substitutes
Head to Head
If points are equal: 1. Goal difference 2. Goals scored 3. Head-to-head
P = Played · W = Won · D = Drawn · L = Lost · GF = Goals for · GA = Goals against · GD = Goal difference · Pts = Points
Possession
Shots
Pass accuracy
Statistics
AEK Athens FC host Zorya Luhansk on Thursday, 26 November 2020 at 17:55. The match is part of the UEFA Europa League 2026/2027 season.
UEFA Europa League: AEK Athens FC 0–3 Zorya Luhansk
Zorya Luhansk beat AEK Athens FC 3-0 in UEFA Europa League on November 26, 2020.
Goals: A. Gromov (61'), V. Kabaev (75'), V. Yurchenko (86' pen).
AEK Athens FC controlled possession (51%) and registered 14 shots to 10.
The match was played at Spiros Louis Olympic Stadium in Athens.