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A typical bet when these two teams are playing, and it's even more obvious today for a number of reasons. The stats tell you this will be a tough game. Siena concede 71,3, and Reggiana 72,6 points per game, and Reggiana also concede 76,3 per away game. Siena are at 77,3 offensively, and Reggiana 76,9, but Siena scored only 70,3 per game in the last three matches. It's clear how much of a blow Hackett's leaving was, since he left, they score really low (66, 68, 75, 56, 69 in the last five). Reggiana failed defensively lately, and they've lost the games right away, so it's clear they have to play defense. Considering this is a play-offs battle, both had defeats lately, and they base their game on tough defenses, I see about 140 points being scored here. The locals set the 146,5 margin, which is also worth taking for the same stake. Details

Rarely have I been so sure about a bet since I started working on EBEL. The importance of the game, the system and the game styles of both teams, head to head games, their last games, stats, and everything else are leading towards this game being an under. In the four Graz and KAC's head to head games, not once were more than three goals scored. KAC have four unders at this margin in the last ten games, Graz as well. Both teams' last games ended at this margin exactly. Graz are a home team, they do better home, but powerful forwards like Kinasewich, Picard, and Scalz are missing. KAC, on the other hand, have all the players at their disposal, but they're feeling a bit down after losing positions in the table and the two defeats in the last games. This game is extremely important for both teams, because Graz will be left with almost no chance to get though to play off in case they lose, while KAC can lose one of the places that lead into play off in case they lose. They're struggling to stay in the play off zone even now, and each point can be crucial. Both teams are better in defense, they're defense oriented and have similar systems. I would not be surprised if this game turns out to be a goalless draw in regulation time. According to the stats, this game should be under as well, even at 4,5. The book makers are offering odds over 3 for it, and I think that's good even with lower stakes. This game, I think, has no chance of being any kind of over, that can be caused only by some miracle - not one thing is suggesting the game will be over. Details

Different predictions about the Slovakian league games can be found on two Slovakian portals specialized for hockey, and both agree on one thing - Kosice will win. I can't do anything but agree with them. Not only are Kosice are a better team when it comes to quality, that's not even that relevant now because the better ones don't always win. What's a lot more important is the state these two teams are in. Kosice come to this match after two consecutive wins, and Skalica have four defeats in a row. Even more than the defeats, the coach can be worried because of the way they lost those matches. Zilina scored six goals against them three rounds ago, they had luck and scored for a tied result against Zvolen half a minute before the end, and they were crushed in Poprad without hitting once, it was a real disaster. Kosice lost their first match this season against Skalica, but then got three new wins. Skalica have problems with the defense, Kosice have an explosive offense, but also a tough defense who can stop the home team's forwards. Too many things are on the guests' side, and these odds are not realistic at the moment. Details

Even though Panionios have a lot of problems with the finances, the players' paychecks are more than ten months late, and so on, and the players didn't go to strike even once (there were rumors about it before a few games, but they didn't do it in the end), and they're playing like everything's fine. They're in a very good shape at the moment, they defeated PAOK 2-0 in the last round, and they also celebrated in the Cup when the coach rested some players. They aren't really making it in the away games, but I think that could easily change today. Panthrakikos had a lot of problems with them lately, they only managed to get a tie once in the last three matches. No doubt Panthrakikos are the favorites on their own pitch, but I expected the odds to be about 2.20 for them, so any bet on Panionios has a value here. I think we'll be seeing a tough match with few chances, and the Panionios' chances to leave Komotini undefeated are much better than the odds would suggest. Details

Since the Portuguese expert Sa Pinto took over the guests, their game improved significantly. He brought them to the middle of the league table from the bottom where they were, and what he managed to do, and his predecessors didn't know how to, was that he managed to completely tighten the defense without the offense suffering at the same time. Only two teams defeated them convincingly, Atromitos and Olympiakos, and Asteras aren't nearly as powerful offensively. I think they're overestimated here, so much so that I question their win, let alone a convincing celebration. They get points against the teams who come to outplay them, and we won't be seeing that here. Asteras will hardly crush the guests' defense, and even if they do, I doubt they'll win with two goals difference. If the odds were higher for Asteras, even x2 would have value, but this way, I'll go for the safer bet - that OFI can lose with one goal difference, and we get the void. Details

This is a big handicap, but the difference in quality between the two teams is obvious. Pyrint are the leading team in group A of the Baltic League with eight wins, only one defeat and +209 point difference. Tarvas are on the other hand, at the very bottom with three wins and six defeats, with the point difference of -109. Those initial pieces of information show that this game should have a predictable outcome. Tarvas lost all four away games in the Baltic League while Pyrinto won all five home. Just to compare, Norrkoping beat Taras home by 43 points, and Pyrinto beat the same team by 13 points. Tarvas lost to Rapla by six points away, and Rapla lost to the Finnish team by 53 points. The home team says they'll try to win by as many points as possible, which means there will be no relaxing. What happens when Pyrinto stay focused all the time could be seen in their first two head to head games, when the Finnish team beat Tarvas away by 36 points, with 117 points scored in the game. Details

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When Parma and Udinese are playing, we can expect a lot of goals. In the last four matches between the two, there were at least three goals in each. Add to that the fact that Udinese's defense seem confused lately, and they conceded three goals per game in the last three matches. On the other hand, both teams have extremely dangerous offenses, Amauri woke up for Parma and he'll play with Biabiany and Cassano, while on the other side, Di Natale will be joined by the young goalgetters Nico Lopez and Muriel. Besides, both teams will start the game without their key center backs. Details

Gaziantep's wins in Europe lately proved they're a much better team than they seemed to be in the first part of the season. Zdovc turned everything upside down, ordered the team to focus on defense, and Ermis' signing is just the final touch. He managed to get their game to the next level, and I think they're the better team today. I think the game will be tied, and there's no reason to believe the home team will win with less difficulty, even though Usak did play well against teams at their level. But, Ermis can handle Warren, Bremer is there as well, there are a lot of options with Lorbek, White, Borovnjak, and Stevic. Usak, on the other hand, don't have that many options, and the defense is currently not at Gazintep's level either. Details

Aris' destiny seems clear this year. They're still announcing the fight, they're not where they are without a reason, being behind that much. Their team is a typical "kindergarten", and personally, I think they're facing AEK's destiny. To remind you, AEK dropped to the second league last year, but the club asked to be dropped to the third so they would have time to recover financially. Right now, Aris are coming to this game without a lot of players. First-team absences aren't numerous, only a few are missing, but there are ten players on the absent list, so the already narrow roster was limited all the way. In the home team's lines, who play decently at home (6-1-2), only the first striker Mantzios is missing, but the offense should be strong anyway because a few days ago, the offensive player Simon Vukcevic came, who played in Sporting and Blackburn. His experience will definitely contribute Levadiakos to defeat the young guest team and push them one step closer to the second league. Details

Hibs are having troubles with their offense since the duo Doyle-Griffiths left last summer - the two of them scored 33 out of the team's 49 goals. In the 23 rounds this year, Hibs scored 21, which only makes them one better than the future second league club Hearts. Lately, they've been doing a bit better, but today, they're hosting Celtic, who won't allow them to cross the center often. They played four times with the future champion of 2013, and shook the net only once. The guests have ten consecutive league wins, and didn't concede a goal in the last eight. This helped them break a Premiership record of a number of saved nets, and their new goal is the historical record of the Scottish football - it's their own record, a hundred years old (13 in a row).
The same starting eleven who defeated Motherwell will run out, the back Matthews is still out, but that's not a critical problem. The midfield reinforcement Stefan Johnson will sit on the bench, as well as the recovered forward Samaras. The home team will be without the two injured defenders, and the suspended midfielder Stevenson. Details

Let's start with the most important thing about this game. Kvarner have the 'weapons' to stop Zagreb's best players. Skific and Radic might as well be the best front court duo in the league, and they can definitely limit Halilovic and Zganec. For example, Halilovic was sent of in the first head to head game in Rijeka, he scored 11 points and played only 23 minutes. I won't even talk about Zganec's efficiency - he got injured after only 2,5 minutes. Skific and Radic were Kvarner's best players in that game. Krivec, Kvarner's point guard is very good and won't give in to Zagreb's defense. All that leads me to believe this will be one tied game in which Kvarner will stand a chance as well. They can certainly at least cover this handicap margin. They won the last four games against Zagreb, and only Jolly managed to beat them by more than six points in the six games they played away this season. Zagreb covered this handicap in four out of 6 games (five in championship, one Cup game), but against whom? Split, Darda, and Brod, teams from the lower part of the championship table, and Jolly at the very beginning. Details

Astana and Oktjabr are among the most efficient teams of this competition, but the margin set is really huge. When Triftunovic came to the bench, Astana started putting more accent on the defense, which could best be seen in the last away game against Samara. Astana went over this margin in only two games this season, against Samara and Oktjabr, both times when Bonichiolli was on the bench. On the other hand, Oktjabr played almost all of their games with a big number of points, and went over this margin six out of eleven times. However, they lost their best striker Culpepper, and that left the offense struggling. This is a very important game for the play-offs fight, the defeat would leave both of these teams far behind their goal, and I simply don't see this game ending with a lot of points, as this margin suggests. They'll play the defense tougher than at the beginning of the season, the stakes are much higher now, and they don't have as much time to fix things. Details

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Odds for this match are inexplicably high. Marathon and other bookmakers offer over 5,5 at about 1,70, the odds at 5Dimes, Bet365 and 188bet are over 2 for over 6 goals with the overtime, and Bet365 has 1,80 for over 5,5, which is the bet I like the best, even though all of them are worth it.
These two teams tend to go over, with weak defenses and goalies, but with brilliant offenses. Penguins are one of the most reliable over teams of the league, and Dallas mostly go to over with teams like that (Edmonton, NY Islanders, Toronto in the last match), and they go to under with teams who play under more often. Both teams are complete, and Dallas have a really week defense full of re-convalescents. Pens often play run'n'gun hockey, and they're strong offensively even with a big number of injured players. None of those tend to control the game, and in Texas, Crosby, Malkin, Jokinen, Neal, Kunitz, Letang will be playing. Four out of six Pens' forwards from the two offensive lines are in their national teams for Sochi, and in the defense, there are great Letang, Maatt, Niskanen, who score often. Dallas also have big talents in the offense - Benn, Seguin, Nicuskin... Also, Pens have four overs in a row with this margin in eight out of the last ten matches, Dallas have five of them in the last ten games - they defeated Toronto 7-1 in the last match, and scored at least one or two goals in each of the previous games, often even four.
It's a fact that Pittsburgh can go over this margin even without Dallas helping them, they proved it in the last match by defeating the Islanders 6-4. Details

This is a typical match where there's a clear favorite. The Jackets are the hottest team of the league with eight wins in a row, and Buffalo lost five in a row. The home team are fighting for the play-offs, these points are important to them and they'll do anything to win, while the guests are stuck at the bottom of the league table and they don't really need to win, sort of. The motivation is on the home team's side for sure, and I think they'll easily solve this with a positive result for themselves. Details

It seems like a rule - as soon as we're talking about Emery's Sevilla, the bookmakers give low odds for over. It makes sense in a way because he's an offensively oriented coach, but we have to draw the line here. A very defensively oriented team are coming to Sanchez Pizjuan today, and they'll close off hard, you can see it from the players' statements, and they'll be looking for their chances using counterattacks. At the beginning of the season, home's team defense playing unevenly, and numerous absences, worked well for Sevilla's over, but the situation is dramatically different now. If you take a look at the goal stats, you can see Sevilla didn't concede more than one goal since October. On the other hand, Levante conceded over one goal only against the strongest teams (Valencia, Atletico, Villareal).
I'll bet on under 3 goals, which means we'll get back the stake if three goals are scored on the game, while the bet will be a full win if under three goals are scored. I expect a tough game here, and a typical Levante, a match that will be just like those that these two teams played before. In the last five games between Sevilla and Levante were these: 0-0, 1-0, 0-0, 1-1 and 1-0. Something like that could happen today, as well. Details

Artland defeated Telekom right before the two-weeks break in the away game, and showed how much of a better team they are when they're complete. Injuries and illnesses troubled the Dragons for the most of December and the beginning of January, but now they're healthy and have no European commitments, so they can focus on the national championship fully. In the first match against Frankfurt they lost both main centres, King and Frease, and you could see how many problems they had in the defense. Things will be completely different today. Frankfurt come decimated. They won't be able to rely on the captain Jacob Burtschi, and according to the latest info, they won't take any chances with the main player and striker Rautins who's still dealing with the calf injury. He scored +20 points against Artland in the first match, six three-pointers, and Burtschi added three. The last matches showed how much they were missing this duo. They scored 43 points in the away game against Brose, and 54 at home against Alba. Artland concede 73 points per home game, they can play a good defense, and we can expect lots of problems on the guests' side. Details