Panathinaikos Athen vs OFI Crete Prediction: Heavily preferred hosts may seal the victory

The Yuletide Midweek presents Panathinaikos, a powerful challenger for this season's league title who would proceed along to Apostolos Nikolaidis for another superb episode with OFI Crete who recently sank into the lower embers of the table. The last five meetings between the two sides concluded with more wins for the hosts (2), two ties, and a win for OFI Crete. With both teams wielding ambition to impress, a thrilling game awaits everyone on whom to choose as the better side.

Last five matches: W-L-D-D-W

Unbeaten this season, Panathinaikos FC has had a string of very impressive runs, overcoming challengers thought to pose problems and surging forward with eyes on the dominant prize. As usual, the home fans would be hoping for a promising display against OFI Crete on their home soil; where they have forcefully secured twenty-two out of twenty-four points. Panathinaikos has a goal average of two goals per game - scoring thirteen goals in the last seven league games.

Ivan Jovanovic, Coach to Panathinaikos FC would hope to outperform opponent Valdas Dambrauskas in this game as he hopes to bulldoze all hopes of a slim victory chance.

Last five matches: L-W-L-L-D

OFI Crete has had a very rough season and are hoping to regain balance as they continue to sink in a swamp of losses, hoping for a twig of fortune. The last game against Atromitos saw an improved performance in the second half which yielded nothing as they were unable to make a comeback from the one-nil deficit made in the closing minutes of the first forty-five minutes.

With only ten points in the last fourteen games, they have slumped in both confidence and structure and at this point hope for a season-changing twist.

Earlier this year, OFI tasted victory against Panathinaikos. The well-known motive was the complacency of the Panathinaikos squad. However, in this game, we predict at least two goals for Panathinaikos at 1.52 odds (betway)

Panathinaikos is on a mission and would try to foist as much injury as possible. It may not be too rash to predict at least a goal in the first half at 1.39 odds (1xbet)

Despite a string of losses, OFI Crete may hit back at Panathinaikos. However, we do not see them returning the favor to some extent, leaving our final prediction to Both Teams to Score - No for 1.42 odds at bet365

Best of luck!