Zagreb is in a lot of problems and maybe it is best to start with absences and departures. PF May left the team and joined Montegranaro in LEGA A .Simon and Morovic are still out with injuries and they have not traveled with a team. Babic and Markota have some problems (Babic with his back, Markota with illness) but they will be in the team. Mulaomerovic is still struggling to find a rhythm after that injury that kept him sidelined for a while, and some players like Ozbolt are clearly unsatisfied with their status in the team (Heytvelt does not look happy also). Coach Androic does not seem to have everything under control in this team and chemistry on the court is absent for most of the time. I feel this is the nice chance for Zvezda to extend their fine streak but I will cut the line and buy a point this time, GL!

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Zlatorog is like a busy bus station as the players are coming in and out weekly for a several months now. Mahalbasic have brought some quality under the rims but he’s not a difference maker and this team is still thin in the paint with him and Omic. Against Zagreb, two weeks ago, they remained close for 35 minutes, but that was mostly because the home team had one of those days, and not because this team raised their level significantly. Coach Sunara, with his modest knowledge of the game, is not a person that will make this team work and I will keep going against this project once again.

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Zadar struggled against Zabok in sunday, more than majority expected, and it was visible once again how limited this team really is without SG Vrbanc. Vrbanc will probably play against Sibenik after a while, but PG Vragovic could be sidelined, SF Batur is still out, and some important players like Ivanov and Krapic seem to have cooled down lately. Zadar is shooting the ball poorly, they have problems in organization on offensive end, and they could be a little tired with this unusually busy schedule in a last couple of weeks. This is not exactly a match only for prestige, but it is not the most important match either, knowing that the both teams with qualify for Croatian playoffs, and that means no-one will force anything in this one. I like Sibenik to stay close at least, GL!

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Borussia Monchengladbach are second in the standings, three points behind Dortmund, but a point ahead of Bayern Munich. Their defensive has been the strongest point for a year or so, but lately they have increased their offensive potency, being the 5th biggest scoring team to add up to the best defensive team of the league record. Gladbach are 5-1-0 in their last six games, with wins against Bayern and Schalke at home, while the only draw came against revitalized Wolfsburg. Against Schalke they were magnificent, winning 3-0 and it could have been more, while the 2-1 win at Kaiserslautern also seemed easy. Coach Lucien Favre will have to do without important Patrick Herrmann, but Gladbach will have Marx, Stranzl and Hanke in the starting line-up. Reus has been constantly good this year so far and he will once again be a great danger up front.

Hamburger started the season horribly, but they are now much better under Thorsten Fink. They have escaped the relegation zone, standing now on 11th place, eight points above the danger line. The fact that they have seven games in a row while playing away without a defeat does not worry me. Except for Leverkusen and Hannover, all the other teams were bottom teams, while the really hard games of this year were lost badly at home against Dortmund 1-5 and against Werder 1-3. We have to recognize that Hamburg had more chances than Werder, but against the top table teams you need more than that. Gladbach will be defending very well as usual, so Hamburg will have to be very careful and play organized. I doubt that they will be able to resist in-form Gladbach though. For Hamburg, Gokhan will be absent, while Jarolim is a doubt due to fitness. This means Hamburg will be defending with Kacar and Rincon, which is not a very good plan against the likes of Reus and Co.

Monchengladbach won at Hamburg 1-0 early in the season, but back then the current visitors were struggling. Two teams on a positive trend here, but Gladbach have home ground advantage so i they will create more chances probably and even score more in my opinion. Hamburg’s series of positive results in travels is about to come to an end and even if the odds are not great, the better team should prevail here and preserve their title chances.

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Valencia squad: Diego Alves, Guaita, Bruno, Barragán, Dealbert, Rami, Víctor Ruiz, Mathieu, Jordi Alba, Albelda, Topal, Parejo, Feghouli, Pablo, Bernat, Piatti, Jonas, Aduriz, Soldado.

Probable eleven: Diego Alves – Bruno, Rami, Victor Ruiz, Jordi Alba – Albelda, Topal – Feghouli, Jonas, Piatti – Soldado.

Finally a win for Stoke away to Crawley Town (0-2) which ensured qualification for the next phase of the FA Cup. Although the match did not start well at all for Stoke, who went down early with 10 players, they got the victory with a goal at the end of the first half and another one to the start of the second half. Tony Pulis was satisfied for the victory and the appearance, and stated that Crawley showed a good team. In Europe, Stoke lost against Valencia at home to the first game with the score of 0-1, and in overall at Europa League in 11 games this year, they count seven wins, two draws and two defeats, both defeats to their last two matches. Speaking on the current match, the Tony Pulis admitted that he left some players back and that it is very difficult to qualify. Pulis left many players in England and took only 15 players. Ryan Shawcross, Glenn Whelan, Marc Wilson, Dean Whitehead, Matthew Etherington, Jon Walters and Peter Crouch all left behind.

Stoke Squad: Begovic, Sorensen, Huth, Collins, Shotton, Woodgate, Diao, Pennant, Delap, Arismendi, Palacios, Dawson, Jones, Fuller, Jerome.

Bet: Valencia -1.5 Asian Handicap @1.97 with Bet365

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Armani Jeans had some changes, Hairston is back in rotation, there is new PG JR Bremer who was brought to their coach Scariolo’s will (they have worked together before) and SG Nicholas was released two days ago. The team will need to learn how to play together but some improvements were already incorporated and a team looked better in a last few games. The weakest link of this team could be their coach, who is a high profile basketball employee with an impressive biography, but his team does not look healthy on the court and he seems to struggle to find a chemistry with his team for a longer period of time. Pana needs a W to qualify to QFs,and after showing some weaker editions at home in EL, I believe they will get the job done in style.

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Unics Kazan coach Pashutin spared SG Lyday and PG Samoylenko over the weekend’s action due to the illness, but they are back in the roster for this match and there is no other absences. This team is playing to their strengths and that brings them success. I mean they are aware they could not run and they are not trying to, they prefer to kill the clock. Domercant is playing like a 20 year old and this team will go far if he continues in that fashion. Lyday and McCarthy are experienced pair of wingmen that can still make a difference on this level and this team has many weapons on offensive end. Where they look thin, or in a lack of quality, is under the basket where they have Jawai and Savrasenko but that was not something where they have suffered to be honest. This team is very good, they are even more serious now with Nachbar in rotation, but I will give an advantage to the home team in this one. Unics can even lose by 4 and still qualify and knowing that can be dangerous for the visitors.

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Atletico have been very impressive after the arrival of Simeone on the bench. He is undefeated so far and although the draws at Racing and Gijon in the league were not that great, the 3-1 win over Lazio in Rome was an amazing performance. Miroslav Klose opened the score in that game, but a great comeback by Lazio was made even from the first half with the goals of Adrian and Falcao, with Falcao scoring the third goal in the second half. It was not a very open game and there weren’t many scoring chances, but Atletico were effective and that is what matters.

Lazio, after that humiliating defeat, went on a hard travel at Palermo and were destroyed with the score of 5-1. Lazio were a bit better in that game but their defense seems like a joke lately, conceding 5 goals from 6 shots versus a team with pink T-shirts. That has to hurt. Under these circumstances, i believe Lazio’s players are demoralized and their coach will probably rest the starters in this travel. Italian teams have never been interested in this competition and considering the first leg home defeat, their chances are just too low to be worth risking fatigue or injury ahead of the next round in Serie A.

Atletico Madrid are in very good form and morale is high. Even if Diego and Suarez will be out for this return leg, they have enough quality to replace them. As for Lazio, they will be surely without Klose, Brocchi, Rocchi, Biava, Stankevicius and even Konko, not to mention the changes in the line-up Edy Reja will probably make. The odds are not great but in this situation they are more than fair and Atletico should comfortably win this one. Odds of 1.55 are still worth taking at Pinnacle Sports. Good luck.

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Steaua Bucharest came into the first leg with high morale, pushed from the start, had some good chances, better possession, but eventually lost after GK Tatarusanu’s positional mistake.Coach Stan is under pressure now and if he were to lose this qualification, it would mean the end of his contract as head coach. He declared that he will make at least three changes to the starting line-up. On a personal note, the thing he should change was striker Tatu, as he ruined at least 4 good attacking chances with bad ball control and pathetic shots.

Twente’s advantage in the first leg was the physical strength of their players in comparison to Steaua’s. The frozen pitch helped the Spaniards even more as they won most of the air duels and that kept their goal area a bit safer. For Steaua, there are good news coming since important defensive midfielder Bourceanu will return after the suspension and his task will be to ruin De Jong’s game. Coach Ilie Stun should really boost the midfield as that was Steaua’s problem during the first leg. Steaua’s best passer in the first half of the season, Brandan, was used as a left defender and that ruined some of the creativity. Secondly, Tanase cannot play as bad as he did in the first leg, neither can Rusescu. The pitch will be in better condition and that favors the team with smaller and faster players, which is Steaua in this case.

Twente are stronger at home and it is hard to believe that they will lose the game. Still, Steaua were a bit better in the first leg and the correct result would have been a draw, while for this game their line-up will be stronger and their stamina level will be higher. Therefore, i can’t see them losing with more than a goal here. Twente do not need a big win and they will not risk anything. A 1-1 is a likely result in my opinion so i will take Steaua AH +1 at 2.20 with Pinnacle Sports.

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The basques will be returning home where they are much stronger with the steaming fans behind them. Bilbao will be missing Javi Martinez and Gabilondo, but it was not a problem in the weekend 3-0 win over Malaga for example. Athletic will go for the qualification here and they need to score at least twice for this to happen, as Lokomotiv will probably get on the scoreboard too.

Lokomotiv were very good in the first leg considering that they were in the winter break of the local championship. They have a good chance here but they cannot play defensively as a goal from Bilbao would mean elimination. In the group stages, Lokomotiv have been excellent travelers, playing open football and scoring a lot: 2-1 and 3-1 wins over Sturm and AEK Athens, but also a 3-5 defeat at Anderlecht. Considering Bilbao have a big striking power, i can see the Spaniards netting some goals, so Lokomotiv will be eager to score here themselves.

Bilbao with Llorente up front and with some important players rested in the weekend against Malaga are the favorites, but the odds are too poor to take at 1.40. Marcelo Bielsa’s players will be attacking from the first minute to get an early advantage and put pressure on the Russians, hoping that the later counter-attacks will be decisive for the qualification. Lokomotiv will not be a pushover in this game, but they need to score badly. They have a very good right wing with Maicon there, but Caicedo remains the big hope for the Russians.

All-in-all, i can see here at least a big scoring game, the winner being decided by the first half display. 3-1, 2-2, 3-2 are the likely results in my eyes and the odds of 1.81 offered by Pinnacle Sports are more than decent for this encounter. Good luck.

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Efes is a very good team that will easily have another disappointing season, and from all the possible reasons, I will buy that story about inexperienced coach that was not ready for such a complicated task. Coach Sarica failed to make his team to play recognizable system,there is no pattern and this team improvises where they should know what to do. In other words, a lot of individual quality but without a good cooperation on the court. Savanovic and Vujacic are scoring leaders in most of the games and their team will depend a lot on their performance once again. Kinsey is still not as good as he was before that long term injury but this athletic forward is still a danger in both directions. Beside these three, I would add Batista and Barac as this team’s main strengths and if they stay out of foul trouble they can become a difference makers in this encounter. Efes was very solid on the road in the first part of the season, but the things have dramatically changed lately and they were humiliated for the three times in a row (-39@Maccabi,-28@CSKA,-18@Olympiacos). I like the home team here,GL!

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Hemofarm showed two faces against Zvezda in the semis of Serbian cup, very bad 1st half where they were trailing by 23 points, and 2nd where they came at -4 in 39th minute. Young Gagic led his team with 14 points, Sutalo added 11. This team can finally look relaxed and without any kind of pressure in this stage of season, they will avoid that last spot (Zlatorog) and they had time to accept ideas from their new coach Bogavac. Pantic and Maras are looking good inside and with whole team healthy after a long time (Otasevic,Dangubic) their rotation will not be a short one. I like HF to take advantage of crippled visitors and to get a W here, GL!

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Bayern, on the other hand, is very big favorite in this match-up and will probably be looking to score at least a goal here, if not to win. Germans are doing good in their domestic league, but will have to build up on their latest performance when they took only one point on the road against Freiburg (0:) three days ago. That result left Bayern on the second position in Bundesliga, but this time with four points less then league leaders from Dortmund. Not only their decreased their chances winning the domestic title, but that draw also increased the importance of this match in Switzerland. Guests will miss Bastian Schweinsteiger once again due to injury as David Alaba should be the one who will take his place.

These two sides met in the last seasons Champions League edition when the Germans have won both matches, 1:2 in Switzerland and 3:0 in Munchen. Similar score is expected today too as this should be on attacking and open minded football match where Germans are also much closer to the victory.

Bet: Over 2.5 Goals @1.72 Bet365

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As said, Manchester City have won the first game with 2:1 and are awaiting this match more relaxed than they thought they will be, however they will have to make sure not to underestimate Portuguese in this leg. Citizens are doing fine in Premier League, but after a failure to progress group stage in Champions League, Europa League is one of the main goals this season for them – alongside domestic league, of course. Everyone in the team is hungry for trophies and progress here is very likely for them. Citizen’s coach has no fresh injury worries in front of this game.

Porto, on the other side, is doing very well in their league, but this seems to be the end of their European competitions campaign. They have lost first match and will now have to attack from the beginning in order to make a surprise and win in England. Narrow 0:1 victory is not going to be enough for them, which means that only higher scoring (over 2.5 goals) victory will be enough for them. Portuguese side will be without central defender Mangala who is supposed to be out injured till the end of March.

Nothing more to be added here, hosts secured victory in the first match and there is nothing left for the last season’s Europa League winner but to try to attack and see what happens. High scoring game and quick tempo are expected here, English side is full of offensive minded player and they will surely know how to use them on counter attacks as Porto will have to start attacking sooner rather then later.

Bet: Over 2.5 Goals @1.80 Bet356

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Inter is in a real mess right now and their form is giving headaches to all their fans. Not only they are on a three games losing streak, but they didn’t win in last six matches making only one draw out of these six matches. Additionally, they have scored only once (in a 4:4 draw against Palermo), meaning that they also didn’t score in last three matches (against Roma, Novara and Bologna) surely teams every expects Inter to score and win. Last game they played was a 0:3 home defeat against struggling Bologna, was a real reflection of their current form as they were simply clueless in attack and without any creative ideas. That loss saw Inter dropping to seventh position at the table and being already eliminated from the Cup, this is the only competition where guests can take the title and their coach Claudio Ranieri can regain some support from the fans. Italians will be strengthened by the return of Diego Milito and Dejan Stankovic, who missed last league fixture against Bologna.

As said, Marseille is expected to attack in this match and to be in control of the game, however, it surely will not be at any price and some under goals bet is also very probably in first leg.

Bet: Marseille Draw no Bet @1.50 with William Hill

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