AEK Athens 2-2 Rijeka: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 23 November 2017

Result

AEK Athens 2-2 Rijeka

Europa League · Thursday 23 November 2017, 20:05 UTC · half-time 1-2

AEK Athens · Rijeka · Europa League predictions

AEK Athens 2-2 Rijeka: match report

AEK Athens drew with Rijeka 2-2 in the Europa League on Thursday 23 November 2017. The half-time score was 1-2.

Alexander Gorgon opened the scoring in the 8th minute. AEK Athens's goals came from Sergio Araujo (45+2') and L. Christodoulopoulos (55'). Rijeka scored through Alexander Gorgon (8') and Alexander Gorgon (26').

Discipline: AEK Athens received 1 yellow card; Rijeka received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game AEK Athens were 38th on 10 points from 6 and Rijeka 118th on 3 points from 4. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.

AEK Athens lined up in a 4-3-3 and Rijeka in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to M. Bakakis of AEK Athens (7.8), level with Alexander Gorgon (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 AEK Athens win, 0 draws and 0 for Rijeka.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 8'Goal · Alexander GorgonRijeka · 0-1
  • 18'Yellow card · Alexander GorgonRijeka
  • 23'Yellow card · Mate MalesRijeka
  • 26'Goal · Alexander GorgonRijeka · 0-2
  • 40'Yellow card · Hélder LopesAEK Athens
  • 45+2'Goal · Sergio AraujoAEK Athens · 1-2
  • 55'Goal · L. ChristodoulopoulosAEK Athens · 2-2
  • 66'Yellow card · Maxwell AcostyRijeka
  • 80'Yellow card · Mario GavranovicRijeka

Head-to-head

1 meetings: AEK Athens 1, draws 0, Rijeka 0.

Team news

AEK Athens line-up (4-3-3)

Giannis Anestis, Rodrigo Galo, Ognjen Vranješ, Dmytro Chygrynskiy, M. Bakakis, Konstantinos Galanopoulos, André Simões, Hélder Lopes, Lazaros Christodoulopoulos, Sergio Araujo, Anastasios Bakasetas

Rijeka line-up (4-3-3)

Andrej Prskalo, Marko Vesovic, Dario Župarić, Josip Elez, Leonard Žuta, Filip Bradarić, Mate Maleš, Domagoj Pavicic, Boadu Maxwell Acosty, Mario Gavranović, Alexander Gorgon