Olympiacos vs. Panathinaikos Prediction, Tips and Odds – Dec. 05, 2022 18:15 CET
This season’s first league Athens derby is being played in Piraeus, and home team Olympiacos welcomes Panathinaikos. Two teams that are in totally different forms this season in both competitions, Oly playing great on both fronts and Panata struggling a lot. But this is a derby and everything falls apart, only the field remains.
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Olympiacos Team News
The red and white from Piraeus this season, along with Fenerbahce, is perhaps the best and most consistent team in Europe, as their results and games show. They are currently led by the best player in Europe, at least as far as the utility index is concerned, Bulgarian national team player Sasha Vezenkov, who has an average index of 28 in the Euroleague, which is far ahead of everyone else in Europe. Vezenkov’s shooting form is great, as are his percentages. In the match against Alba, Vezenkov scored 24 points without even dropping the ball to dribble, ala Klay Thompson.
He has great help from his teammates who also play great. First of all, we are thinking of the Greek national team members Papanikolaou and Sloukas, who are perhaps the greatest strength of this Olya team. A base of domestic players, who are ready to do the dirty work for the team, subordinating themselves. Fall and Bolomboy bring great security under the basket, who is very mobile and agile for their height.
In the Greek championship, they are perfect, they have a score of 7-0, and on average they win all opponents by 20 points, while in the Euroleague, they have a score of 7-4, and in the last three matches, they have been defeated twice. They lost the last match against the champion Efes, where Vasilije Micić flirted with a triple-double, and played the game of the season.
The derby is a special story, and all the players will come in fully focused and ready to make the best possible result and achieve their first victory against their big rivals.
Panathinaikos Team News
Panathinaikos has been in big trouble in recent seasons. They cannot find an ideal solution on the bench that will pull them forward. This season, they decided to give their trust to the Montenegrin specialist Dejan Radonjć, who produced great results with Crvena Zvezda and seems to have been given complete freedom.
Radonjić and Pao did not start well, and when everyone expected a change, as we are used to it from the head of the club from Athens, Radonjić received public support. After a heavy defeat of 30 points against Fener, Pao caught the rhythm and they connected 5 victories. This game was especially influenced by the great form of Derrick Williams, as well as the new addition of Dwayne Bacon, who brought great width to the attack. In the last match, they beat Žalgiris away from home, which is always awkward in front of the home crowd.
In the domestic championship, they have a record of 5-1, their only defeat was against Aris. Looking at the roster of the Panathinaikos team, it is a great team, above all defensively powerful, which can cause big problems for everyone, and we think that they will get better from game to game.
H2H
02.10.22 – Panathinaikos : Olympiacos – 52:67
17.06.22 – Olympiacos : Panathinaikos – 93:74
14.06.22 – Panathinaikos : Olympiacos – 72:78
11.06.22 – Olympiacos : Panathinaikos – 74:61
Olympiacos vs. Panathinaikos Prediction
Pao caught the rhythm, but Oly is the absolute favorite. The fact that Panathinaikos has 8 consecutive defeats against Olympaikos is particularly interesting, so they will enter this derby particularly motivated. A handicap of 10.5 is a very good “insurance”, because we expect a fairly even match.
Tip-off Time: Monday, 05.12.2022, 18:15 CET
Prediction: Panathinaikos +10.5
Odds: 1,762
Sportsbook: Bet365
