AEK Athens vs Atromitos Prediction: Less demanding challenge for AEK

After several tough opponents like Panathinaikos, Brighton and Olympiakos, AEK will face a much weaker opponent Atromitos. Even though the visitors are still winless in the league, in the past they knew how to make life difficult to AEK even in Athens. This season the competition for the title is very intense and AEK are under pressure to get all the points here as Olympiakos and PAOK are starting to make a gap between them and the competition.

Form: WWDWL

Even though the schedule wasn’t fair to the champions of Greece, they can be proud of how well they passed these previous matches both in the league and in the Europa League where they won against Brighton in England. They also won against Panathinaikos in the derby of Athens and drew against Olympiakos at home. They have 4 matches played so far in the league and have 2 wins and 2 draws which is enough for 5th place with 8 points.

Form: DDLLW

Atromitos are struggling a lot at the beginning of this season. They are still winless and it seems that they will be among the main candidates for relegation. They are in 13th place with 2 draws and 2 defeats. They are playing very poorly in the defense and it will big problem against AEK, a team that is forcing and pressing the opponent a lot. In the last two matches, they played draw against OFI Crete and Volos, but these are opponents on a different, lower level than AEK are this season.

The hosts are the favorite in this match, they must win to keep up with the leader Olympiakos. After the great win in the derby against Panathinaikos, they will be even more motivated to win this match at home. All players are fit and ready, so it’s expected that AEK will start with the strongest lineup and try to easily win this match. Atromitos on the other hand will have a very difficult season and they should focus on getting the points in matches against more equal opponents. In the head-to-head stats, AEK are dominating, and even though they won all matches against Atromitos last season, most of the matches were under 2.5 goals. However, this season AEK are playing more offensive football and I expect them to win with a bigger margin against a desperate opponent.