PAOK vs Aris Match Preview

The derby of Thessaloniki between PAOK and Aris for the 11th round of the Greek Super League will be held at the Toumba stadium. Both teams of the co-capital come from painful defeats and both want to bounce back with a victory.

PAOK comes from a 2-0 defeat at the home of Atromitos, who had not tasted the joy of victory in this season until that game. Thus, PAOK could not take advantage of the defeat of AEK in the derby with Olympiakos to rise to 2nd place.

Aris after a series of very good performances suffered a blackout in the home match with PAS Giannina and suffered a defeat with the embarrassing 0-5. The atmosphere in the yellow and blacks is now very heavy and everyone will be called to give answers in this important match.

A new defeat will launch further evolvements in either of the 2 teams, while for the winner there will be a lift-off their problems.

My choice in this derby will be the draw which surprisingly is offered at decent odds. PAOK will be the favorite due to home ground but this season they are not so effective in Toumba having already two unsuccessful results in 4 games as hosts (0-1 with PAS Giannina and 4-4 with Volos). In addition, they carry the fatigue from the midweek difficult match of the Europa Conference League (0-0 vs Slovan Bratislava on the road)

Aris away from home has 3 wins and 2 narrow losses, both with one goal margin. They lost 1-0 in Neapolis to Ionikos conceding a goal almost at the end of the match and 2-1 in OAKA to AEK in a match that they dominated in the field.

So I think that a draw has a lot of chances here and it is worth betting with a low stake, at the extremely high 3.61 odds.