AEK Athens 2-1 Xanthi: result and report

Super League · Saturday 9 January 2016

Result

AEK Athens 2-1 Xanthi

Super League · Saturday 9 January 2016, 17:30 UTC · half-time 1-1

AEK Athens · Xanthi · Super League predictions

AEK Athens 2-1 Xanthi: match report

AEK Athens defeated Xanthi 2-1 in the Super League on Saturday 9 January 2016. It was 1-1 at half-time.

H. Aravidis opened the scoring in the 10th minute. AEK Athens's goals came from H. Aravidis (10') and Hélder Barbosa (53'). Xanthi scored through Karim Soltani (17').

Discipline: AEK Athens received 2 yellow cards; Xanthi received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game AEK Athens were 3rd on 28 points from 16 and Xanthi 8th on 20 points from 15. AEK Athens went on to finish that season 4th with 58 points, and Xanthi 11th with 36.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 AEK Athens wins, 1 draw and 0 for Xanthi.

Going into the match AEK Athens's last five read W-L-D-W-W and Xanthi's D-D-L-D-W.

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Goal · H. AravidisAEK Athens · 1-0
  • 17'Goal · Karim SoltaniXanthi · 1-1
  • 36'Yellow card · Theodoros VasilakakisXanthi
  • 48'Yellow card · Dani NietoXanthi
  • 53'Goal · Hélder BarbosaAEK Athens · 2-1
  • 57'Yellow card · Karim SoltaniXanthi
  • 65'Missed penalty · Dani NietoXanthi
  • 81'Yellow card · Dídac VilàAEK Athens
  • 84'Yellow card · H. AravidisAEK Athens
  • 85'Yellow card · C. LisgarasXanthi

Head-to-head

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

Team news

AEK Athens expected line-up

Alain Baroja, D. Kolovetsios, Cesar Arzo, André Simões, Jakob Johansson, Hélder Barbosa, Petros Mantalos, Hristos Aravidis, Rodrigo Galo, Dídac Vilà

Xanthi line-up (4-3-3)

Luigi Cennamo, Manolis Bertos, Christos Lisgaras, Dimitrios Goutas, Wallace, Theodoros Vasilakakis, Constantinos Fliskas, Adrian Oscar Lucero, Nicolae Ovidiu Herea, Karim Soltani, Dani Nieto