The 1st match of the round of 16 for the Euroleague continues with 6 matches today. On Tuesday, Panathinaikos defeated Maccabi in OAKA and Galatasaray defeated Zalgiris in Turkey.
From today's program, the match between the two best men Obradovic-Itoudi in Istanbul stands out, as well as the battle of Olympiakos in the inhospitable headquarters of Malaga.
Unicaja finished in 3rd place in their group behind CSKA and Maccabi with a record of 4-6, losing all 4 matches from the two good teams of the group. with 2-76 in overtime.
Unlike the Euroleague in the Spanish championship, it is doing well and after 14 games it is in the 1st place of the league with a record of 12-2, with Real, Barcelona and Badalona following with 10-4. On Tuesday, in fact, it beat Real Madrid at home. with 99-92 in overtime in a match that was even 13 points behind. In the match Markovic and Vassiliadis suffer from minor injuries but will normally be in the 12th. the red and whites to win all four last year matches in the group stage and in the 16.
Olympiakos happily closed 2014 by defeating Panathinaikos 81-75 at SEF and remained alive in claiming the first place in the regular season. The key to Olympiakos' victory was Darden's very good performance in defense and attack, after limiting Diamantidis while he also scored 13 points. However, in the middle of the week Agravanis injured his hand and will be out for about 3 months. If we calculate that Papapetrou is already injured and Printezis can not play more than 10 minutes, the gap at 4 seems very large.
Outsider prices in Malaga are illogical but little by little the bucks have patched his mistake and now the match is given as 50-50.
I will go with the ace but with a small steak because Olympiacos is completely unpredictable.