Olympiakos Piraeus v Panathinaikos — prediction, stats and goal analysis

Super League · Sunday, 11 October 2026. Final score 1–0 (half-time 1–0). Before kick-off we rated it 60% under 2.5 goals — the match finished with 1, so that call landed. That rating was frozen into a version-controlled ledger before the game and has not been touched since.

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Our ratings for this match

MarketYesNoOur call
Over 2.5 goals42%58%Under
Over 3.5 goals20%80%no pick
Both teams to score45%55%No

The result model puts Olympiakos Piraeus at 43%, the draw at 34% and Panathinaikos at 24%, from expected goals of 1.05 and 0.71.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. Super League has produced over 2.5 goals in 49% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Olympiakos Piraeus have 0 in 5 this season (0 of 2 at home), Panathinaikos 3 in 5 (0 of 2 away). Those records are pulled toward the league rate with the weight of about 24 matches — enough that two or three unusual games cannot swing a rating — giving 41% and 51%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 5 and 5 games played this season, last season's rates are still blended in and fade out entirely by game 40 — the point at which our testing showed they stop adding accuracy. A single season is part luck, so each club's record is first pulled toward the league average by 34 games' weight. That moves the two figures to 42% and 50%.

The mix. Weighted 40% home side, 40% away side and 20% league — the split that beat every alternative across 30,582 matches of testing — that gives 46%.

Head to head. These sides have met 12 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 25%. That nudges the number 5% of the way toward the head-to-head pattern — deliberately small, because fixtures change more than reputations do — landing on 45%.

Goal expectation. Separately a Poisson model built from attack and defence strength — using real expected-goals data where the league has it — puts this match at 26%, from expected goals of 1.05 for Olympiakos Piraeus and 0.71 for Panathinaikos. Folding in 30% of that view gives 40%.

Calibration. Tested against 97,729 past matches, our ratings below 55% have run consistently too pessimistic — a figure in the high 30s, for instance, has come in about four points higher. So ratings in that range are lifted part-way back, giving 42%.

This breakdown is generated from the same inputs the rating uses, so it cannot describe a calculation we did not perform. The full model is set out in the methodology.

Season form

TeamGamesO2.5O3.5BTTS
Olympiakos Piraeus50%0%20%
Panathinaikos560%40%40%

Head to head

13 May 26Olympiakos Piraeus 1–0 PanathinaikosU2.5
19 Apr 26Panathinaikos 0–2 Olympiakos PiraeusU2.5
8 Feb 26Olympiakos Piraeus 0–1 PanathinaikosU2.5
21 Sept 25Panathinaikos 1–1 Olympiakos PiraeusU2.5
11 May 25Panathinaikos 0–1 Olympiakos PiraeusU2.5
30 Mar 25Olympiakos Piraeus 4–2 PanathinaikosO2.5

More: Olympiakos Piraeus season stats · Panathinaikos season stats · Super League table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.