China vs Greece

Handicap +7.5 : -7.5

Absolutely no reason for this handicap imo.

A seemingly pointless fixture this one, with China and Greece theoretically ''fighting'' for the third place of the group. With current situation the fourth one will most probably face undefeated Lithuania in the QF while the winner of this task will have to oppose probably Argentina. I don't know about Kaslauskas, but Yiannakis rarely choses to win or lose in order to face a selected opponent, his mentality is taking every single game apart and try to win it and then see what happens in the next game.

I don't think something will change here, thus this pick is not based on a possible relaxation of the Greek team to face Lithuania (whose style is closer to our players and tradition is not as bad as with Argentina). Rather than that i think we will see a good match, with enthusiastic hosts trying to get a first win against their rival and Greece getting ready for their traditionally problematic stage, the QF.

This is an early pick, thus no real team news are of interest, but mainly my intuition about the match being a real derby and the score line kind of low for a match of diminished importance. I will go for both bets, having in mind that in the day to come some things might change and affect the final outcome. Hoping not. GL!