Euroleague: Olympiakos - Barcelona Betting tips

Another Euroleague week, another great game as two playoff teams Olympiakos and Barcelona meet up in Greece!

Totals

Olympiakos are 2^nd best at covering total point overs at home this season at 70% (7-3). The closest that they’ve been to a pre-game 156.5 total which is given for this match was in the last match against Khimki when the 156 point total ended up being an under as the game was very low scoring ending 71-57. In fact Olympiakos are interestingly 1-3 when the totals are in 150s and 6-0 when it’s in 160s at covering the overs.

Barcelona are also decent at covering overs on the road at 54.5% (6-5) which is 6^th best in the Euroleague. The closest that they’ve been to a 156.5 total was when it was 155.5 against Darussafaka and Buducnost which both resulted in an under (71-79, 67-64) and there was also a 157.5 total against Maccabi which resulted in an over as the game ended 99-83.

Handicaps

Olympiakos have been decent at covering Handicaps at Home at 60% (6-4) which is 5^th best in the Euroleague. They’re tipped as 5.5 point favourites here and the previous time that they were 5.5 point favourites they covered it with an 88-81 win over Efes. They also covered a 5 point favourites handicap against Panathinaikos winning 79-65. Olympiakos in fact have covered 6 of their last 7 handicaps at Home after failing to cover each of their first three.

Barcelona are dead in the middle at covering Handicaps on the road at 45.5% (5-6) which is 8^th best in the Euroleague this season. They’ve been 5.5 point underdogs against Baskonia which they covered quite comfortably winning the game 70-77.

Recent H2H in Piraeus

Olympiakos have won 4 of last 5 matches at Home against Barcelona.

However, the most recently last season Barcelona came to Piraeus and absolutely thumped Olympiakos smashing them 63-90. Barcelona came to that game as 8 point underdogs which they covered with an absolute ease. The pre-game point total was 155.5 which resulted in an under as total points scored was 153.

 

Injury News

Olympiakos: Dimitrios Agravanis returned to action during the weekends league game and could see game time. Kostas Papanikolaou is a game time decision meanwhile.

Barcelona: There are no injuries in the Barcelona camp. Everyone is available to play.

 

Match Start – 31^st January 2019 – 7pm UK Time