PAOK vs Olympiakos Piraeus — Super League 1 2018
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 137+ matches
PAOK40%
Olympiakos Piraeus34%✓ Correct in 50 of 100 matches — 5 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: 50.3% correct across 582,450 matches, vs 44.5% for always backing the home side.
Home picks 50.5% correct · Away picks 49.5% 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.
PAOK creates 11% more chances
Season form · 137 home / 137 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Under53
- Over47
Fewer than 3 goals likely
Both teams score
- Yes52
- No48
Close call
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
PAOK ↓
Most likely 1–1 (13%) · grid covers 98% of scorelines
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Total goals
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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
PAOK at home — creates 1.99, concedes 0.71 · 137 matches
Olympiakos Piraeus away — creates 1.71, concedes 0.69 · 137 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
PAOK attack 1.99 + Olympiakos Piraeus defence 0.69 → ÷2 → 1.34
Olympiakos Piraeus attack 1.71 + PAOK defence 0.71 → ÷2 → 1.21
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 40%?"
PAOK at 40% 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 40% does not mean "PAOK 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.
Probable lineups not yet announced
Starting lineups are usually confirmed ~1 hour before kickoff
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
PAOK host Olympiakos Piraeus on Sunday, 18 February 2024 at 18:30. The match is part of the Super League 1 2018/2019 season.
Super League 1: PAOK 1–4 Olympiakos Piraeus
Olympiakos Piraeus beat PAOK 4-1 in Super League 1 on February 18, 2024.
The match was played at Stadio Toumbas in Thessaloníki.