Panathinaikos vs PAOK: Analysis and Prediction – Panathinaikos and PAOK will play an Greek League game in round 10.
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Panathinaikos Team News
Panathinaikos entered this season with the highest ambitions. After several years spent at the bottom of the EuroLeague, team owner Dimitris Giannakopoulos decided to drastically change things and significantly increase the budget.
Ergin Ataman took over the team after two EuroLeague titles in Anadolu Efes, and the team was strengthened by players such as Kostas Sloukas, Mathias Lessort, Luca Vildoza, Juancho Hernangomez, Dinos Mitoglou. All of them are EuroLeague or NBA stars, and he recently arrived in Athens and Kendrick Nunn, who is getting better at adapting to his new environment. The most recent game against Real Madrid testifies to this. The former Miami Heat basketball player scored 20 points in halftime, but added only four more points by the end and drowned in the bad state of the team, which ended up losing 90:78.
Despite the big investments, the results of Panathinaikos are still not visible. In the EuroLeague, they have seven defeats from 13 rounds, while in the Greek League, they struggled in some games. Things are looking better there, as Panathinaikos is right at the top with 9-0.
PAOK Team News
PAOK is playing extremely variable this season. They showed that they are a team that can beat almost anyone, but also lose to anyone. They can’t seem to find their way when they come up against a solid defense and that has been their biggest problem this season.
What can worry this team are defeats against teams like Benfica with more than 20 points, although it is interesting that that duel in Lisbon is the only one that the black and whites have lost in four games of the FIBA Champions League. While they are more consistent in that competition, the same cannot be said for the domestic league, in which they have five wins and four losses. Despite this, this team is in a good mood, as it enters the next match with two consecutive victories, against Benfica and Kolossos. In the win over Kolossos with 93:81, Kendall Smith stood out with 16 and Andrew Harrison with 15 points.
Undoubtedly, PAOK will have to change something if they want to position themselves as the third or fourth power in Greece after Panathinaikos and Olympiacos. They could realistically do that, if they play more aggressively.
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Panathinaikos vs PAOK H2H
In the last 10 meetings, Panathinaikos won nine times.
Absences and Injuries
The hosts do not count on Juancho Hernangomez and Ioannis Papapetrou, and Jamuni McNeace will not be able to help PAOK.
Panathinaikos vs PAOK Prediction
Panathinaikos is not having the expected good season. Ataman knows that every new glitch and failure could cost him his job, and therefore we should expect maximum commitment from the home team in this game. When all that is taken into account, as well as the big difference in quality, the logical proposition is that Ataman’s team will win by a margin higher than the offered handicap.
Tip-off Time: Sunday, 10.12.2023, 19:30 CET
Prediction: Panathinaikos -17.5
Odds: 1.80
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