Murcia vs Igokea: Analysis and Prediction – Murcia and Igokea will play a game in the FIBA Champions League second round.
Murcia vs Igokea Odds
Murcia Team News
Murcia have been playing to their potential since the start of the season. There were both wins and defeats, but such results were generally not unexpected. With exceptions, Murcia has lost to better teams, won against worse and that is what their current situation boils down to.
True, the introduction to the next duel was not the best for Murcia, who lost away to Girona 82:76, thus canceling the great win over Gran Canaria with 95:69. The duel against Girona was very tense after an even first half. Murcia decided the third quarter in their favor 28:11, and in the end, when it was most important, they succumbed and in the last 10 minutes allowed their rival to run 33:20. This team could not survive such a bad defensive game, so now it has to settle for fifth place in the table, with a score of 4-3, and it could have been much better. The most effective in the team were Dylan Ennis with 18 points and Simon Birgander with 14 points and 17 rebounds.
However, such a game was not enough to overcome a difficult rival, which means that the other players will have to join as well. Regardless of that, Murcia has to work on the endings of the games and find a way to beat the rival in that period, which it didn’t manage this time.
Igokea Team News
Igokea is in very good shape when it comes to the regional ABA League. Overall, from the competition in the FIBA Champions League, the team from Aleksandrovac has four wins in the last five matches. The only defeat was against Tofas after extra time in the European competition.
Therefore, it is clear how high-quality Igokea is. This especially applies to their attacking production, which is excellent in the mentioned period, since as a rule this team scores 90 points. That changed in the introduction before this duel, against Borac. In Cacak, Igokea barely managed to win, with a score of 70:64, proving that even with a smaller number of points, they can upset its rival. This is certainly a good thing for Vladimir Jovanovic team, which was led in that game by Marko Josilo with 13 and Nikola Tanaskovic and Edin Atić with 10 points each. However, that party cannot make Jovanović happy, whose team had to turn around a big deficit in the last quarter, which they managed to do in the end.
In the next match, Igokea will have to play equally well both in defense and attack, as they will face one of the most serious tests since the beginning of the season. The rhythm of the game is not kind to the team from Laktasi, which this time will have to rely on some other players, who should jump out of the second plan.
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Murcia vs Igokea H2H
These two teams have never met each other.
Absences and Injuries
Murcia has all the players available, while Stefan Moody and Jackie Carmichael are question marks for the visitors.
Murcia vs Igokea Prediction
Given that Murcia suffered a defeat in the first round of the competition against Tortona, with the help of the fans, they will be highly motivated to record their first win in the FIBA Champions League and beat their rivals by a margin greater than the offered handicap. One of the reasons is the lack of defensive quality at Igokea, which does not have the weapons to respond to the Spanish team from that side.
Tip-off Time: Wednesday, 01.11.2023, 19:30 CET
Prediction: Murcia -8.5
Odds: 1.74
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