Olympiacos vs Panathinaikos: results, venues and clean sheets

Leoforos 2013: Mitroglou settles a narrow game

The November 2013 meeting at Leoforos finished with a late Kostas Mitroglou winner for Olympiacos. That narrow result opens this selection and contrasts with the more substantial away victory Panathinaikos achieved in the next displayed meeting. The historical point is the change in match shape, not a claim that one episode predicts the next.

A late deciding goal leaves most of the preceding contest level. For a viewer, that means the closing phase deserves attention without swallowing the whole account. The absence of an earlier goal does not establish that no useful attacking play occurred; it means neither team had converted it into a lead. Mitroglou's finish changed the result at the point where there was little remaining time to respond. This is a different football problem from defending an advantage established before the interval.

Three results from official match reports

The club's archived reports document the home order and final score for each selected fixture. The table retains that order, which changes for the first row. All three outcomes are normal-time league results, so there is no extra-time or shoot-out score to combine with them.

An official club report is a primary record, but its celebratory or disappointed language is not a neutral measurement of territorial control. This guide uses the reports for verifiable match facts and keeps analytical interpretation separate. If a historical result was later changed by a disciplinary ruling, the final competition decision would need to be stored alongside the score played on the field. That distinction should be part of the database design even when a particular selected row does not require it.

Winning more matches is not the same as scoring more goals

Olympiacos won two of the three selected fixtures, while Panathinaikos won one. Yet the goals totals across these rows are two for Olympiacos and three for Panathinaikos. The contrast is a useful arithmetic lesson: the number of wins and the sum of goals measure different things.

Each selected match also ended with one side keeping a clean sheet. Olympiacos has two clean sheets in the sample and Panathinaikos one. Do not convert those counts into a claim that the rivalry is always low-scoring or that both teams rarely score across its full history. A three-game curated selection cannot establish that. Display both the match count and the date boundary whenever these figures are reused in a chart or summary.

March 2014: Panathinaikos win through three scorers

Panathinaikos won at the Georgios Karaiskakis ground with goals from Danijel Pranjić, Marcus Berg and Mehdi Abeid. Pranjić scored before the interval, Berg extended the lead and Abeid completed the result with a late free kick. The three scorers and the timing distinguish this away win from the two narrow Olympiacos victories in the sample.

The sequence also changes what each half meant. Olympiacos had a deficit to address after halftime, rather than entering the closing minutes at parity as in the earlier match. The next goal increased that task, and the final free kick widened the margin again. It is reasonable to discuss those changes in match pressure. It would be less sound to turn them into an unsupported statement about the character of either club. The result belongs to this specific afternoon and to the players who produced it.

October 2014: a substitute and a free kick

Tasos Avlonitis entered the October meeting as a substitute and scored shortly afterwards, heading in from an Alejandro Domínguez free kick. That was the only goal of the game. It is a particularly useful episode for a football reader because it joins two elements that a final score omits: the contribution from the bench and the delivery from a dead-ball situation.

The scorer's impact does not mean every substitution improves a team's chances or that the coach could know the outcome in advance. It does show why a match account should include the players who entered during play. A line-up graphic records only the starting arrangement. The decisive action came from a player introduced later, while the assist sequence depended on a restart. Those details give a 1–0 result its own identity within a rivalry containing many other narrow games.

Three matches, three different routes to a clean sheet

Each selected game ended with one side failing to score, but that shared feature hides different stories. There was a late winner at Leoforos, a three-goal away performance by Panathinaikos and a narrow home win decided by a substitute at Karaiskakis. The clean-sheet column summarises the outcome; the narratives explain why the rows should remain distinct.

The venue comparison is also asymmetric. Two games were played with Olympiacos at home and only one with Panathinaikos hosting. A reader should therefore resist presenting the small sample as balanced evidence of home advantage. What it offers instead is a compact historical contrast: both clubs won away in the selection, while the final row produced a home victory. That is enough to challenge a simplistic home-team story without inventing a long-term percentage that these three observations cannot support.

Use a consistent xG and viewing-information policy

The historical records used here establish results; they do not supply a compatible shot-level xG series for all three games. Leave that measure unavailable instead of filling the gap with a guessed decimal or a total-shot count. If a suitable dataset is added later, state its provider, methodology and whether all three matches are covered under the same definitions.

For a new fixture, verify the date and competition through the official organiser or clubs. Then check authorised live coverage for your viewing country and the relevant season. Old match videos and archived channel references are not permanent broadcasting rights. Travel and access information should likewise come from current stadium guidance. Keeping these updateable details separate allows the historical result table to remain stable and useful.

A practical worksheet for the Greek derby

The simplest reliable archive has one row per match, a stable identity for each club and an explicit source. Store home goals and away goals, then derive goals for each club in a separate calculation. This avoids adding the wrong side of a score when the venue changes.

Before publishing a summary, reproduce the win count and goals total by hand. The apparent contrast in this sample is intentional: two narrow wins and one larger defeat can produce more wins but fewer goals overall. Explain that relationship in ordinary language so readers learn something about the statistic. Keep the sample label visible wherever the figures appear, including social previews or a small comparison card.

1. Confirm that the record is senior men’s football in the stated league.
2. Store calendar year and football season as separate fields.
3. Check home order before calculating goals for each club.
4. Display match wins and total goals as different measures.
5. Retain any later official result ruling separately from the on-field score.
6. Do not assign xG or current television rights from an archived report.

Sources and verification

• Panathinaikos–Olympiacos, November 2013 — Olympiacos — 2026-10-23
• Olympiacos–Panathinaikos, March 2014 — Olympiacos — 2026-10-23
• Olympiacos–Panathinaikos, October 2014 — Olympiacos — 2026-10-23