Barcelona vs Crvena Zvezda: Analysis and Prediction – Barcelona and Crvena Zvezda will play a game in the EuroLeague seventh round.
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Barcelona Team News
Barcelona is playing above expectations at the beginning of the season. Everyone had doubts about Roger Grimau. This is his debut season on the bench of the Spanish team, and he responded to that with excellent games, both in the EuroLeague and in the Liga Endesa.
The only two teams that have beaten Barcelona so far this season are Valencia and Real Madrid, and only the loss against Valencia was “unplanned”. In addition, Barcelona plays beyond expectations, much more freely than was the case when the team was led by Sarunas Jasikevicius. It seems that the players like it, as evidenced by the record of 5-1 in the EuroLeague. In the introduction before the game against Crvena Zvezda, Grimau’s team was better than Breogan with 79:63 and routinely won on the road. The most deserving for that was Jan Vesely with 14 points and seven rebounds, followed by several players with nine points each.
Excellent three-point shooting percentages, very good defense, rebound control and rhythm control are the things that adorn Barcelona so far. If they continue with the same games, they will remain one of the main favorites to win the competition, which was not easy to imagine before the start of the season, considering the turbulence in that period.
Crvena Zvezda Team News
After the departure of Dusko Ivanovic, Ioannis Sfairopoulos managed to score two wins – first against Bayern in the EuroLeague, and then against Buducnost in the ABA League. The team from Podgorica lost 95:86, but the red and white team looked far from perfect in that match.
Offensively, it was one of Crvena Zvezda’s best games this season. Mike Tobey was especially inspired with 23 points, while Nemanja Nedovic returned to the floor after an injury and scored 16 points, including a three-pointer, with which he broke the opposition’s resistance. However, in one part of the game, it seemed as if the Serbian team could not defend anything, which coach Sfairopoulos emphasized at the media conference that followed. Apart from that, the positive thing is that Crvena Zvezda has regained the winning rhythm, which will be extremely important for them before the next duel against Barcelona.
It seems that the roles of the players, with the distribution of which Ivanovic had problems, are slowly emerging. Shabazz Napier has not yet reached the desired form, but Milos Teodosic and Yago dos Santos are here to replace him. What the red and whites will need in the Blaugrana is a solid defense, which they also had problems with at the start of the season.
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Barcelona vs Crvena Zvezda H2H
In the last 10 games, Barcelona won nine times.
Absences and Injuries
Michael Caicedo will not play for the home side, while Nico Laprovittola and Rokas Jokubaitis are questionable. For the guests, Nemanja Bjelica and Adam Hanga are not available, and Branko Lazic is uncertain.
Barcelona vs Crvena Zvezda Prediction
Tip-off Time: Friday, 10.11.2023, 20:30 CET
Prediction: Barcelona -7.5
Odds: 1.71
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