Greek League
2007-02-17 - Egaleo vs Ionikos
A Sports Betting Pick by Dimitri
This is a do or die situation for Egaleo who are now below the relegation zone versus Ionikos in this local derby.EGALEO
Another bad streak result of 3 consecutive defeats and one draw brought Egaleo fron 6th place under the relegation zone. The good news is that they are only 4 points from the 6th place so they have to keep fighting for the best.
Egaleo for this game will miss regulars Tsatsos and Popov (midfielder and left full back respectively) as well as defender Koubaroulis and striker Petropoulos. But most importantly Egaleo are missing a coach, after Hatzaras left the club. It seems that former assistant Poulos will be on the bench until the end of the season.
Home support is not going to be very strong because the basketball team is playing a very important game at Patras and many will take the short trip to support the basketball team.
IONIKOS
Ionikos are already relegated but that makes them dangerous because they play the est they can in every game and they have nothing to lose.
In the last round they managed to stop their 6 defeat streak, drawing at home against Kerkyra, but they have not won for 18 games now.
For this game they will miss defenders Fangueiro, Natsouras and Kotitsas as well as their reliable forward Gutman. Ioniko's coach stated midweek that he is happy with the efforts if his players (many of them are quite young) and that if they keep on trying like that they will win again.
HEAD TO HEAD
As one can observe from recent past results most games are unders and the most favoured result is the draw
21.10.2006 Ionikos Nikaia:Egaleo 0:1
15.04.2006 Egaleo:Ionikos Nikaia 1:1
11.12.2005 Ionikos Nikaia:Egaleo 4:1
13.02.2005 Ionikos Nikaia:Egaleo 1:1
03.10.2004 Egaleo:Ionikos Nikaia 1:0
24.01.2004 Ionikos Nikaia:Egaleo 0:0
14.09.2003 Egaleo:Ionikos Nikaia 2:0
02.02.2003 Egaleo:Ionikos Nikaia 0:0
01.09.2002 Ionikos Nikaia:Egaleo 0:0
17.03.2002 Ionikos Nikaia:Egaleo 1:1
25.11.2001 Egaleo:Ionikos Nikaia 2:2
VERDICT
Things here are pretty much clear : if Egaleo don't win this one, against already relegated Ionikos they are into big trouble. As i said before Ionikos play freely because it can't get any worse for them so it won't be easy.
Odds for home win are 1.15-1.25 which is utterly laughable, but most bookies are quite generous with the unders price.
Egaleo are a typical one-goal-win team, they never tend to thrash their opponents, no matter how weaker they are, so i don't expect something more than 1-0 or 2-0 win.
That's why UNDER 2.5 goals at 1.90 at Globet seems incredibly high to me (9 out of 11 recent games were unders as well).
BEST BETTING TIP :
Take UNDER 2.5 GOALS at 1.90 @ www.globet.comMaybe you want to try your luck with 1-0, 2-0 correct scores.
