APOEL 2-0 Athletic Club: result and report
Europa League · Thursday 23 February 2017
Result
APOEL 2-0 Athletic Club
Europa League · Thursday 23 February 2017, 18:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
APOEL 2-0 Athletic Club: match report
APOEL beat Athletic Club 2-0 in the Europa League on Thursday 23 February 2017. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Pieros Sotiriou opened the scoring in the 46th minute. APOEL's goals came from Pieros Sotiriou (46') and Giannis Gianniotas (54', penalty). Athletic Club did not score.
Discipline: APOEL received 4 yellow cards and 1 red card; Athletic Club received 4 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game APOEL were 41st on 12 points from 7 and Athletic Club 33rd on 13 points from 7. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.
APOEL lined up in a 4-4-2 and Athletic Club in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Giannis Gianniotas of APOEL (8.2), ahead of Boy Waterman (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 APOEL wins, 0 draws and 1 for Athletic Club.
Key events
- 43'Yellow card · Pieros Sotiriou
- 45+1'Yellow card · Raúl García
- 46'Goal · Pieros Sotiriou
- 53'Yellow card · Óscar de Marcos
- 54'Penalty goal · Giannis Gianniotas
- 56'Yellow card · Nikolas Ioannou
- 65'Second yellow · Pieros Sotiriou
- 75'Yellow card · Iturraspe
- 87'Yellow card · Igor De Camargo
- 87'Yellow card · Igor De Camargo
- 90'Second yellow · Iturraspe
- 90+4'Yellow card · Gorka Iraizoz
Head-to-head
Team news
APOEL line-up (4-4-2)
Boy Waterman, Zhivko Milanov, Iñaki Astiz, Giorgos Merkis, Nikolas Ioannou, Georgios Efrem, Vinicius, Nuno Morais, Giannis Gianniotas, David Barral, Pieros Sotiriou
Athletic Club line-up (4-2-3-1)
Gorka Iraizoz Moreno, Mikel San José, Xabier Etxeita, Óscar de Marcos, Mikel Balenziaga, Yeray Álvarez, Beñat, Muniain, Susaeta, Raúl García, Iñaki Williams