Philippines vs Lebanon Prediction, Tips & Odds – Feb. 24, 2023
Philippines vs Lebanon Prediction 24.02.2023. Gilas Pilipinas will be looking to exact revenge when they take on a shorthanded Lebanese team at the glorious Philippine Arena in Bulacan in the final window of the FIBA Asia World Cup qualifiers on Friday afternoon.
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Philippines vs Lebanon Odds
Philippines vs Lebanon 1×2: 1.50/2.37
Asian Handicap (-4.5/+4.5): 1.81/1.86
Total Over/Under (162.5): 1.85/1.81
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Philippines Team News
Some Filipino websites claim that the Philippines will tackle Lebanon with a depleted frontcourt, but we completely disagree. When you have June Mar Fajardo and Justin Brownlee patrolling the paint, you are working with a monstrous frontcourt lineup that has the capacity of annihilating any team in Asia(with the exception of Australia).
In the first head-to-head clash, the Philippines arived to the Lebanese fortress in Beirut spearheaded by Jordan Clarkson. The home team was missing a key piece of their rotation in Sergio El Darwich, but stil managed to prevail thanks to their superb ball movement and team play.
Today, Lebanon will be missing even more firepower so Gilas have a golden chance to gift their loyal fans a win over one of the Asian heavyweights.
Lebanon Team News
Basketball is a team sport. Lebanon are well aware of that because in just a couple of years they have become one of the main frontrunners in Asian basketball courtesy of their smooth ball movement, defensive effort and impeccable execution of their gameplan.
However, this Friday and in this final FIBA window they will be facing a challenge since two of their key players and an integral part of their team, Wael Arakji and Ali Haidar, are both unavailable along with their import Jonathan Arledge.
They have already played a couple of games in these qualifiers without one key piece, but overcoming the absence of three starters should be too much even for a team of their pedigree.
Philippines vs Lebanon H2H
25.08.22 – Lebanon – Philippines 85:81
13.07.22 – Lebanon – Philippines 95:80
19.08.17 – Lebanon – Philippines 106:87
01.10.15 – Philippines – Lebanon 82:70
15.09.12 – Lebanon – Philippines 68:78
Philippines vs Lebanon Prediction
With the prodigal son Justin Brownlee finally set to make his debut and with Lebanon entering the match heavily shorthanded, we have to back the Philippines to win and to cover the spread at home.
Early lines were slightly favouring Lebanon, but at the moment we have the Philippines as clear favourites. After all the staking, we think that the current -4.5 line still holds solid value and should be a couple of points higher.
Tip-off Time: Friday, 24.02.2023. 06:00 PM Local Time(GMT+8)/ 11:00 CET
Prediction: Handicap (incl. overtime): Philippines (-4.5)
Odds: 1.81
