Asvel vs Olympiacos: Analysis and Prediction – Asvel will play at home against Olympiacos in the EuroLeague Round 16.
Asvel vs Olympiacos Odds
Asvel Team News
Asvel is part of the EuroLeague project, which intends to expand to Western Europe, which is a much more interesting market than the Eastern part. Because of this, Asvel got a place in the elite competition, but for several years he has not justified it.
Such a situation referred primarily to the period when T. J. Parker was the coach of this team. The French strategist could not find the right rhythm, and at certain moments it seemed that he would be an eternal coach, due to his fraternal relationship with Tony Parker. However, that also came to an end, when everyone in the club saw that T. J. simply did not have the quality to lead a EuroLeague team. Gianmarco Pozzecco came in his place and immediately changed the energy in the team, recorded some important wins, and in the introduction to this match lost convincingly against Milan 84:61. Joffrey Lauvergne was the most effective in that meeting for the losers with 12 points and was the only bright spot in the team’s poor offensive performance.
Asvel is a limited team, that does not have the quality to fight for the playoffs, but they have the quality to trouble more serious teams. Time will tell if Pozzecco is ready to do something like that. If not, it will not be difficult for Parker to replace the Italian.
Olympiacos Team News
Olympiacos is currently playing with a lot of ups and downs. This team changed a significant part of the team, which left the most important players – Kostas Sloukas and Sasha Vezenkov. It was a big blow for the red and whites, who tried to make up for it with the arrival of Nikola Milutinov.
So far, it’s not looking good. It seemed at the beginning that Olympiacos would be better defensively and thus “cover” the mentioned absences, but from game to game it is clearer that the game in defense is not enough to win continuously in the Euroleague. This is evidenced by two defeats in a row by Olympiacos, the first by Valencia in Piraeus with 63:56, and the second by Virtus in Bologna 69:67. The latter came after the reversal of the Italian team in the fourth quarter, and the most effective in the defeat were Giannoulis Larentzakis with 13 and Moustapha Fall with 12 points.
The fact that they received 63 and 69 points and lost again speaks volumes about which side of the court the problems of Olympiacos are, which will have to play better offensively if they want to fight for the top of the EuroLeague, which is the goal of this team.
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Asvel vs Olympiacos H2H
Last season they played two meetings – the result was 1-1.
Absences and Injuries
The host is complete, and the guest are without Veniamin Abosi.
Asvel vs Olympiacos Prediction
Olympiacos tied two defeats and they will certainly be maximally motivated to end that streak and prove that the last period was just a combination of some unfortunate circumstances, and that both of those matches could have been winners. Olympiacos has ways to stop all the offensive options of the rivals, so we expect the difference in quality to prevail and the red and white to win by a margin higher than the handicap offered.
Tip-off Time: Friday, 22.12.2023, 19:45 CET
Prediction: Olympiacos -5.5
Odds: 1.71
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