Greek League
2007-02-11 - Atromitos vs Egaleo
A Sports Betting Pick by Dimitri
Atromitos have a golden chance to beat Egaleo in this derby, for Egaleo have almost hit rock bottom...ATROMITOS
Atromitos managed an unimaginable away win at Iraklis in the last round, when they found themselves behind at 87 minutes, but escaped with the three points with gals at 90 and 92 minutes.
This is their golden chance to grab a win and stay clear of the relegation zone because the situation in the opposing team is worse than ever.
For this game however they will miss their creative midfielder Merino, as well as striker Lazanas. Defender Sanoko was already known to miss the game.
EGALEO
After three consecutive defeats, with bad performances in all three of them, coach Hatzaras resigned from the club, in an effort to turn things around by creating a shock. The morale is extremely low in the team, and for this derby, assistant manager Poulos will be on the bench.
However there are some good news regarding players coming back from injury and punishment. The backbone of the midfield and natural leader of the squad Skopelitis is returning, new signing Tournas is back from injury and Nedelkovic is set for debut in this match.
After the recent unfortunate results, Egaleo are in danger of relegation.
HEAD TO HEAD
THe clashes between the two teams go a long time in the past, unfortunately i only have recent stats.
Note that Atromitos played as Chalkidona until 2004-2005 season, then the two clubs merged retaining the name Atromitos. While Egaleo never lost to Chalkidona they have never won Atromitos in the recent years.
01.10.2006 Egaleo:Atromitos 0:0
11.03.2006 Egaleo:Atromitos 0:1
30.10.2005 Atromitos:Egaleo 0:0
15.05.2005 Egaleo:Chalkidona 2:1
08.01.2005 Chalkidona:Egaleo 1:1
18.04.2004 Chalkidona:Egaleo 0:1
23.11.2003 Egaleo:Chalkidona 2:1
VERDICT
This is the worst time i can recall for Egaleo in the last decade. They play bad football, make unreasonably lot of mistakes in the defense and now go in this important game without a coach.
On the other hand Atromitos are strong in their home ground and i believe they will not waste this chance to thrash their arch-rivals.
Egaleo have important returns in the squad but i don't know if this will be enough to take something from this game.
Everything points strongly to the home win, priced at a very generous 1.85 at www.interwetten.com.
However because this is a derby and every result is possible personally i will probably be on unders, best price I could find was 1.65.
