Betting tips for Sporting vs Olympiakos Piraeus - 22.11.2017

The Lions receive in the Olympiacos Alvalade in the match of the fifth day of Group D. Sporting CP had to advance their set-up to get in the best conditions to the qualifying round for this group stage, which got rid of the Romanian Steaua Bucharest, who thrashed at his stadium by 1-5. Jorge Jesús continues to lead the Alvalade team, which last year finished third after SL Benfica and FC Porto. For this season, the Lions will have more than 196 million budget to return to compete for the three titles in Portugal and dream of going one step further in European competition. To do this, they have reinforced with 11 players: from Racing Club arrives the Argentine end Marco Acuña (9.6 million); from Sampdoria, the Under-21 international midfielder Bruno Fernandes (8.5 million); from Real Betis, Italian right-back Cristiano Piccini (3 million); from Estoril, midfielder Mattheus (2 million); and from Atlético Nacional, the Colombian forward Leonardo Ruíz (500000 euros). In addition, come free André Pinto (former SC Braga) and Jeremy Mathieu (FC Barcelona) and goalkeeper Guingamp Romain Salin. Finally, they get the Portuguese international Fabio Coentrao, loaned by Real Madrid.

The Lions are second in the NOS League, four points behind FC Porto. The Lions started winning their first six games against Desportivo das Aves (0-2), Vitória Setúbal (1-0), beating Vitória Guimarães (0-5), Estoril Praia (2-1), Feirense (2-5) 3) and Tondela (2-0), conceding two draws in their next two games, against Moreirense (1-1) and at home against FC Porto (0-0). In the last three, the team thrashed Chaves (5-1), won the Rio Ave (0-1) and drew two against SC Braga (2-2).

In the Champions League group, the team is third, with four points out of twelve possible, so in case of winning and a Juventus defeat, it could reach the last day with options to be second.


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Olympiacos ended up dismissing coach Besnik Hasi after uniting a long series of poor results, both in the Greek Super League and in this group stage of the Champions League.

The eternal Greek champion had to get rid of the Serbian Partizan of Belgrade and the Croatian Rijeka in the two previous qualifiers that led them to share a group with FC Barcelona and the European runners-up, Juventus.

The Athenian team has 81.2 million euros in budget, enough to present a team of guarantees, which has been reinforced with the arrival of Emmanuel Emenike, from Fenerbahçe in exchange for 2.5 million; the Belgian midfielder Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe; the Serbian center of Konyaspor Jagos Vukovic; Croatian left-back Hrvoje Milic, from Fiorentina; and the Greeks Panagiotis Tachtsidis (coming from Torino), Leonardo Koutris (Gianina), Spyros Risvanis and Manolis Siopis (both from Panionios). In addition, the Granada gives them to the far right Moroccan Mehdi Carcela-Gonzalez. In the chapter of losses, the team made definitive the sale of the Dimitrios Siovas plant to CD Leganés for 3 million euros. In addition, the midfielder Dimitrios Kolovos goes to the Belgian Mechelen in exchange for 700000 euros. Also leaving the team are center-back Mark Asigba, who is going to PAS Lamia, and Paraguayan center forward Óscar Cardozo, sold to the Paraguayan Libertad.

After losing the first three matches of the group (2-3 at home to Sporting CP, 2-0 against Juventus in Turin, 3-1 in Barcelona), the team drew against FC Barcelona, ​​so that if they win I could still dream of playing the Europa League.

Sporting vs Olympiakos Piraeus  Prediction: 1/1 3.00

Sporting vs Olympiakos Piraeus betting tip: Over 2.5 Goals @ 1.80

Sporting vs Olympiakos Piraeus  final score recommendations: 3-0 10.00