AEK Athen vs Royal Antwerp Betting Odds, Tips, Predictions, Preview 30th August 2023

Royal Antwerp or AEK Athen? Who gets to see the next stage of the Champions League? They lock horns once more at the OPAP Arena on Wednesday, with a 1-0 result from the first leg to look back on.

Royal Antwerp managed a tight 1-0 win and kept a clean sheet in the first leg, thus knowing another clean sheet will see them go through. They don't need a win to seal qualification against AEK Athen which of course in a huge advantage. Pressure is on for AEK Athen after losing the first leg, and they need to grab the return leg by the throat to overthrow the aggregate score to their advantage.

AEK Athen managed to score seven goals, concede 18 and secure a clean sheet zero times in their last ten matches in this tournament.

Royal Antwerp are currently not the most scoring team in the Champions League, as they only found the back of the net one times in one matches in this tournament. This is an average of just one a game in which they conceded zero times, an average of zero per game. They kept their opponents from scoring one times.

AEK Athen vs Royal Antwerp Prediction

AEK Athen Form

AEK Athen have been too mediocre in their last three matches, where a win has failed to come their way. Against Dinamo Zagreb, they gained a point in a 2-2 draw, before coming up short against Royal Antwerp, who ran out 1-0 winners. Lately, they managed to steal a point in a 1-1 draw with Panserraikos FC. AEK Athen only managed one meagre home win from a possible six at OPAP Arena in the Champions League. They also drew two and lost three of these six encounters, in which they scored seven and conceded 11 goals.

Royal Antwerp Form

Royal Antwerp look in good shape before their upcoming match as they seek to remain unbeaten. In their last three matches, they first beat Kortrijk by 6-0, before drawing 1-1 with OH Leuven. They were back as winners last time out, when they took out AEK Athen by a 1-0 scoreline.

AEK Athen find it tough these days to get a goal in, but Royal Antwerp are equally lacklustre in front of goal currently, and going with under 2.5 goals in the betting market is the obvious choice.

AEK Athen vs Royal Antwerp Team News

AEK Athen vs Royal Antwerp H2H

The last time these two teams clashed, Royal Antwerp emerged victorious with a 1-0 scoreline and will be looking for something similar on Wednesday. As AEK Athen enter the match against Royal Antwerp at OPAP Arena, they do so with a 2-0-1 h2h record in their previous three encounters.

AEK Athen vs Royal Antwerp Results

AEK Athen vs Royal Antwerp Betting Tips

Domagoj Vida hit the target once in six Champions League, while Vincent Janssen scored a similar amount in his last six games. Both'll be hoping to double that at OPAP Arena.

AEK Athen were able to win five of their previous 10 home games across all tournaments, while drawing four of the games. They suffered defeat in one of these outings. Royal Antwerp won five of their last 10 games away, drew three and suffered defeat in two of them. Of the previous 10 outings away from home, Royal Antwerp scored the opening goal six times, whereas their hosts were first on target in five of their last 10 games on home soil.

Over 2.5 goals came out six times in the previous ten matches across all tournaments for AEK Athen, who scored an average of 1.9 goals along the way. Over 2.5 goals came up in three of Royal Antwerp's previous ten matches across all tournaments. They managed to score an average of 1.4 goals in these matches.