Fiorentina vs Panathinaikos Preview: Team News & Prediction
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Fiorentina have endured a miserable couple of months with their season collapsing ahead of facing a Panathinaikos side that have perhaps been reliant on home form in this competition.
Kick-off date/time: Thursday 13th March, 2025: UK – 8:00pm / US ET – 4:00pm / US PT – 1:00pm
How to watch on TV: UK – TNT Sports / US – Not televised
How to watch online: UK – Discovery+ / US – Paramount+
Key Stats
- Fiorentina have won only one of their previous seven UEFA competition matches against Greek teams (D3 L3). Their only knockout match against a Greek team was in the 2023/24 UEFA Conference League final when they lost 0-1 against Olympiacos.
- This is Fiorentina’s third successive UEFA Conference League round of 16 participation. They reached the final in the last two seasons.
- Fiorentina have won ten out of ten two-legged UEFA Conference League ties (inc qualifying).
- Fiorentina have won eight and drawn three of their last 11 UEFA competition home matches.
- Fiorentina have lost five of their last six matches in all competitions (W1).
- Panathinaikos have won five of their last six UEFA Conference League matches (L1).
- Panathinaikos have won two of their last three UEFA competition two-legged ties against Italian teams. Their last such tie was a 6-4 aggregate victory (3-2 h, 3-2 a) against Roma in the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League round of 32.
- Panathinaikos have won the second leg without conceding a goal in their last four UEFA competition two-legged ties.
- Panathinaikos have only failed to score in one of their last 19 UEFA competition matches.
Fiorentina vs Panathinaikos Prediction
In the first-leg of this intriguing clash in Athens last week, Panathinaikos raced into a 2-0 lead before Fiorentina managed to fight back to all-square within the opening 25 minutes but Panathinaikos pinched the advantage in the second-half thanks to a Tete strike.
The hosts, coached by Raffaele Palladino, were involved in Serie A’s title race at Christmas but I Viola have collapsed in the league, been knocked out of the cup and now found themselves behind in Europe. They have managed just four victories in 15 matches across all competitions since hammering LASK by seven goals to nil in mid-December.
Panathinaikos lost 2-1 to Vikingur Reykjavik in Iceland in the first-leg of their knockout playoff round tie before turning that around in the second-leg and there is an importance on home advantage. That will concern them as they head to the Artemio Franchi in Florence for this second-leg this week.
Fiorentina are out of form but will have to attack and that may well help Panathinaikos on the counter-attack so both teams scoring would appear a good bet for this second-leg.
Fiorentina vs Panathinaikos Tip: Both teams to score
