In the match of the regular season of the VTB United League, the Moscow IBA will host Astana from Kazakhstan on its site.
MBAVasily Karasev's team played poorly in their last match and broke a series of two consecutive victories.
On the third of December, IBA lost to Avtodor Saratov on the road in a hard struggle with the score 68:72 (13:11; 22:17; 11:29; 22:15). In this meeting, there was no player in the IBA who could prove himself especially brightly, which ultimately affected the final result.
"Astana"Oleg Kiselyov's team, in turn, performs rather poorly in the VTB United League regular season and has been dreaming of a cherished victory for a long time.
In their last match, which was the day before yesterday, Astana played quite well against the local Zenit on the road in St. Petersburg, but still the team from Kazakhstan lost with a score 66:88 (22:23; 14:31; 15:18; 15:16). In this meeting, two basketball players played quite well as part of Astana. American Michael Myers scored 17 points, made 11 rebounds and completed one assist. Russian point guard Daniil Aksenov scored 16 points, made six rebounds and completed five assists.
Astana and IBA last played against each other on the ninth of October in the VTB United League regular season. Then the IBA in Kazakhstan won a crushing victory with a score of 103:69 (23:24; 20:9; 32:21; 28:15).
ForecastIn this match, the IBA on its site is of course considered by the bookmakers to be the undisputed favorite.
At the same time, a pretty bright basketball should turn out in Moscow, we suggest you put more than 155.5 points on the total.