CHAMPIONS LEAGUE BETTING PICK - OLYMPIACOS V SHAKHTAR DONETSK

Champions League

2006-12-05 - Olympiacos vs Shakhtar Donetsk

A Sports Betting Pick by RedLine

Very important game tonight for both teams.

Olympiakos needs only the win in able to go on the Uefa cup, Shakhtar can be happy with the draw also that qualifies them at least for the UEFA cup, and possible defeat of Roma from Valencia and at the same time a Shakhtar win qualifies the Ukraine team.

So it's a complex senario.

1) Valencia 13
2) AS Roma 7
3) Shakhtar 5
4) Olympiacos 2

Olympiakos coach Trond Sollied hopes his team can win the most important match of the year as said, his only problem will be head striker Michalis Konstantinou who still isnit 100% fit after injury.

On the other side Shakhtar coach Mircea Lucescu stated out that his team gained experience the last years from European games and that tonight his team won't lose, since from his side Olympiakos is not a better team then Shakhtar.

The spirit in the Ukraine team is very high.

Line ups

Olympiakos
Nikopolidis, Zewlakow, Kostoulas, Cesar, Domi, Stoltidis,Jordjevic, Rivaldo, Castillo, Okkas, Konstantinou (Babakita)

Shakhtar
Shust,Srna, Chygrynskiv, Hubschman, Rat, Tymoschuk, Duljaj,Matuzalem, Rodriguez, Mrica, Brandao

Referee is Stephen Bennett from England, and never a Ukraine team has lost or won with this referee, 3 games, 3 draws all with the same score, 2-2.

Weather in Athens is sunny, tempature tonight will be 11 celcius. Tickets are sold out.

On the Uefa list Olympiakos holds 47th place with 43,587 points - while Shakhtar the 69th place with 33,777 points.

TEAM FORM

After 30 games at home for the CL Olympiakos has 16 wins, 7 draws, and 7 defeats.

Shakhtar on the other hand after 8 games away for the CL has 0 wins, 0 draws, and 8 defeats.

THE VERDICT

Olympiakos is very powerful at home games, and Shakhtar is a team that Olympiakos can beat at home.

From my point of view Olympiakos will win tonight, and we will see many goals, Shakhtar are poor travelers and also have bad defense, they might be happy with the draw but I can't see any way they can avoid losing tonight.

BEST BETTING TIP :

Take the home win for Olympiakos.

or the over 2.5 goals looks like a wise choice
Best price is 2.13 at Canbet

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