Panetolikos lost a man at 69 minutes, then a goal at 88
OFI won 1-0 at Panetolikos with a goal in the 88th minute, after the home side had played a man short for twenty-one minutes.
Athanasios Prodromitis was sent off for Panetolikos in the 69th minute, and it took OFI just nineteen minutes to take advantage. Kenan Kodro scored in the 88th, set up by Nikolaos Athanasiou, and the home side lost a match they had played with ten men since the closing stages of the second half began.
Before that, the ball had mostly been with OFI, and their share of it is the figure that stands out. Ball possession is simply how much of the time each side has the ball, and OFI had 63%. Panetolikos usually have 46% of it at home, so their 37% was a clear dip, while OFI's usual away share is 46.7%. OFI also completed more than four in every five passes, against about two in three for Panetolikos.
Ball possession
Panetolikos actually had more shots than usual, 13 against a home average of 8, and the league average is 12 per side. Only three of those were on target. Their expected goals figure, a rough measure of how good the chances were, came to 0.71, which is in line with the 0.7 they usually create at home. The openings were ordinary, but there were more of them, and none went in.
OFI had 12 shots, which is the league average, and slightly more than the 9.5 they usually take away from home. Their expected goals total was 1.25, below the 1.66 they normally produce on the road, so their chances were of lower quality than usual. In a match with lighter chances, one goal was enough. Their goalkeeper made three saves, while the Panetolikos keeper made one.
Goals were scarce. The league averages 2.8 goals per match, and this one had a single goal. Panetolikos conceded one, against an average of 2.5 at home, which is the kind of number a side will take even when down to ten men. Kodro's goal earned him a rating of 7.7, the highest on either side's list, and it is the moment that matters most in the whole game.
Thanasis Androutsos, rated 7.2, created five chances for team-mates without getting an assist himself, which made him the busiest creator on the OFI side. Christian Manrique, rated 7 for Panetolikos, took three shots, one of them on target, and played the full 90 minutes. Panetolikos are tenth in the table with 9 points from eight matches, and have lost five of their last six. OFI are sixth, on 13 points from the same number of games.
K. Kodro
T. Androutsos
Christian Manrique
T. Fountas
1 goal
3 chances created