Aris BC vs Stelmet Zielona Góra Preview

It is the turn of Group D to get its Champions League campaign underway as Greek side Aris BC welcome Polish professional side Stelmet Zielona Góra to Thessaloniki. Both sides will be fully aware of the importance of getting off to a bright start in a game that is expected to thrill the Greek home fans. However, neither side has been setting the world alight recently. And the game could kick-start the winner’s season and give them the boast required to go a long way in the tournament. Never has an opening game been so important to two sides with the defeated facing an almighty uphill task.

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Aris BC vs Stelmet Zielona Góra Prediction

As with a majority of these group opening encounters, home advantage is a huge head start for Aris BC. That intense and loud Greek crowd will give the home side the added impetus needed to get the job done against a dangerous Gora side. One of our best basketball betting tips maybe for Aris to get the win but it will be close and go right down to the last-minute, meaning possession in the final quarter will be key. The defending Polish domestic champions will be no pushovers in what promises to be one of the tightest clashes in this season Champions League.

Aris BC vs Stelmet Zielona Góra Betting Tips

Greek side Aris BC look to strong on their own patch and with players such as Americans Vaughn Kwame and Keith Benson to call upon in their starting five. However, five defeats in their last six have done little to calm the nerves ahead of their Champions League campaign, they can take credence in the knowledge that their opponents have fared little better. Stelmet’s last six games have yielded two wins and four losses in which three of those defeats were on the road. Travelling has been an issue for Artur Gronek’s men and that is set to continue with Winner offering some of the best outright basketball betting odds including for this game. The game is critical for both sides to exert some authority and will be close and nervy all the way up to the final claxon. However, Aris will just do enough and will be carried over the line by their intense home support.

The away side Stelmet Zielona Gora have been slow starters of late losing the first quarter in five of their last seven matches. With Aris keen to get out of the blocks quickly to appease a ferocious home support, Sportingbet’s handicap price for the home side to be leading at the end of the first quarter is too good a price to pass up. Despite boasting far superior average points per game ratio over their rivals in the last ten games (82 to 68), the away sides problem has been in seeing out the game and inability in winning the ball back often enough to give themselves a big enough advantage. Aris BC will not let this go unpunished and will pounce on any errors by their opponents by stifling them as early as possible to make Stelmet’s heads drop and romp home to the best possible start in the group.