AEK Athens vs Panetolikos
Our model puts an AEK Athens win at 69.3% in this Greek Super League fixture — the clearest call on this fixture. Expected goals run 2.05 to 0.66.
What this probability has been worth
A number is worth what it has been worth. Across 1,904 predictions published before kick-off and scored against the result afterwards, the calls we priced between 65% and 75% came in 70.6% of the time — 180 fixtures in that band. The model claimed 69.4%, so the two are within 1.1 points of each other. In this range the stated probability has meant roughly what it says.
The ratings gap
AEK Athens carry a rating of 1629 against 1476 for Panetolikos, a gap of 152 points. On our scale that is the difference between a side that controls most of its fixtures and one that has to earn each of them. It is also the single largest input into the probabilities above.
Attack against defence
The single rating hides where the mismatch actually sits. Splitting it, AEK Athens's attack should find room against Panetolikos's defence, by 104 points. That is the mechanism behind the expected-goals line rather than a separate opinion about it.
Finding the target
Panetolikos struggles to hit the target: 26.9% of their shots are on goal over their last matches. The average across the sides we have figures for is 34.1%. Accuracy is not the same as scoring — it says how much of a side's shooting is worth a goalkeeper's attention, which is the part that does not swing as wildly from week to week as goals do.
How often they shoot
Panetolikos manage 8.7 shots a match, against an average of 11.9. A side that shoots this rarely has to take what it gets, which makes its scoring lumpier than its quality.
A disciplinary record worth knowing
Panetolikos collect 3.2 cards a match, on 13.3 fouls a match, against an average of 2.2. Cards are the one thing here that can change a match rather than describe it: a sending-off rewrites every number on this page.
A high-scoring home side
One model here does nothing but estimate how likely the home side is to score four goals or more, and on this fixture it reads 64.9%. Across our settled fixtures that happens about 8% of the time, so this is well above ordinary. It says nothing about who wins — a side can score four and still be caught — but a match where one team is expected to run up a total is one where the scoreline is much harder to call than the result.