Βy Lefteris Moutis/ moutis@eurohoops.net
The winning streak of the betting column of Eurohoops is getting bigger and bigger. This week in the Euroleague we bet on Barcelona’s and Laboral’s easy victories and on the offense of CSKA, Fenerbahce and Efes.
Barcelona wants desperately the victory against Galatasaray because has already more defeats than ever in the Top 16. The same time the Turkish team has many problems in and out of the court and probably will not succeed to be competitive until the end. The Catalans destroy their rivals whenever they have the chance and we believe that will prevail by more than 13 points over Galatasaray.
The Turkish derby is expected to be a high scoring game. Fenerbahce will try to score a lot in the transition and Efes will try to follow a low tempo basketball but the line is too small for such a big game. Efes scores more lately, and we will bet on over 150,5 points.
Furthermore, in the Spanish derby Laboral has an advantage to prevail over Unicaja. The hosts are in better shape and at home won their last six games by big margins. On the other hand, Unicaja has lost its seven of the last nine on road games. Also, the visitors are not expected to score more than 76,5 points. They did it only in the first three on road games of the season. In contrary in the last four on road Euroleague games, Unicaja scores 70,2 points per game.
Once again the line on CSKA‘s points is low. The Russians want to bounce back after the three defeats in row and Milano doesn’t play so well to stop them. CSKA scores 97 points per game at home and only once scored less than 90, which is the line.
The betting tips
Barcelona-Galatasaray (+13,5) 1
@Playbet 1,90
CSKA-Milano CSKA Over 90,5 points
@William Hill 1,85
Efes-Fenerbahce Over 150,5 points
@Bet365 1,90
Laboral-Unicaja (+4,5) 1
@Unibet 1,91
Laboral-Unicaja Unicaja Under 77,5 points
@Ladbrokes 1,80