Virtus Bologna vs Zalgiris Prediction, Tips & Odds – Oct. 05, 2023

Ognjen

October 4, 2023

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Virtus Bologna vs Zalgiris Prediction 05.10.2023. As part of the first round of the Euroleague, home team Virtus and Lithuanian Zalgiris meet in Bologna. Both teams opened the championship fantastically and an exciting and interesting match awaits us.

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Virtus Bologna vs Zalgiris Odds

Virtus Bologna Team News

Virtus enters this season with many changes in its composition. They were left without their main player Milos Teodosic, who was the leader and main creator of the team, but also without coach Sergio Scariolo. Teodosic returned to Crvena zvezda, while Scariolo was unexpectedly fired, and his place was taken by the experienced Luca Banchi, who will need time to arrange all the pieces in the Virtus game. Banchi, unlike many Italian experts, forces a lot of defensive basketball and breaks his opponents with defense, and this is best seen in the games of Virtus this season, where they limited all their opponents below 80 points.

In addition to Teodosic, Mam Jaiteh and Semi Ojeleye left the team, who would do well in Banchi’s game system. The team was strengthened by one of the best defensive centers in the Euroleague in the last ten years, Bryant Dunston, who arrived from Efes. Also, the team has been strengthened by Ognjen Dobric, who will bring intensity in both directions, but is questionable for this match, as he is still recovering from an ankle injury he suffered in the final of the world championship while playing for the Serbian national team. As a replacement for Teodosic in the guard positions, the former player of Alba from Berlin Jaleen Smith arrives, who will play together in tandem with Hacket and needs some time to get used to it. However, the engine of this team will be, as in previous years, Tornike Shengelia, who is one of the best four in Europe. Mickey and Dunston will have great help under the basket for Shengelia.

Virtus easily won the SuperCup of Italy, where they first defeated Milano in the semi-final, and then in the final, they defeated the host Brescia with a difference of 37 points. In the first round of the Italian championship, they had a lot of trouble with Scafati, but they won, mostly thanks to Shengelia, who scored 21 points and added 7 rebounds.

🎖️ 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 by @GRUPPO_SGB #AmarsiAncora pic.twitter.com/TNHsNNMf0l
— Virtus Segafredo Bologna (@VirtusSegafredo) October 2, 2023

Zalgiris Team News

Zalgiris did not change much this season, but they were quite disturbed by the departure of Iganas Brazdeikis, who was one of the best players last season. Experienced coach Maksvytis has created an excellent system in Zalgiris where everyone knows their role and clearly adheres to it. He gets maximum productivity from every player. The biggest boost for Zalgiris is the return of Keenan Evans, who started last season phenomenally and was the MVP for a couple of rounds, but suffered a very serious injury and missed almost the entire season. This year, in addition to Evans, Zalgiris will also have the excellent Naz Mitrou-Long, who played for Olimpia Milano last season, in the back positions.

Zalgiris has a very strong base of local players, who have been playing together for a long time and are together, so they don’t need much time to get used to each other. Zalgiris plays hard basketball, especially disciplined in defense, something similar to Virtus and we expect this match to be quite tough. zalgiris won both matches of the Lithuanian championship. First, Juventus was defeated, and then Pieno Zvaigzdes. In both matches, they limited their opponents below 70 points.

First home win in the books! 📚 pic.twitter.com/4phxtCqMfb
— BC Zalgiris Kaunas (@bczalgiris) October 1, 2023

Virtus Bologna vs Zalgiris H2H

10.01.23 – Virtus Bologna : Zalgiris – 77:87

18.10.22 – Zalgiris: Virtus Bologna – 68:65

Injuries and suspensions

Virtus Bologna: Dobric(?).

Zalgiris:-.