Teucro-Arrate

This Asobal season has been a bit strange so far as Ciudad Real has lost twice in the first four rounds and many teams are injury plagued because of crazy schedules of handball players, with so many championships, leagues, olimpic games.

Well, Arrate is one of the teams that defeated Ciudad Real. It was a surprise of course but not so big, and what it is strange is the rating of this team by the bookies. Arrate is a middle-top of the table team. They are even dreaming of getting into the top four (I think that's too much for them) but bookies keep on giving them big handicaps or put them as underdogs with no reason. Their start of the season was hard cause they had to play against in form Granollers (they lost 29-30 but with a bit of bad luck) and they made a bad match away against La Rioja (27-24). Then lost in Barcelona, so they have only two points from last round against current champions. They have at last full squad to play in Pontevedra today. Stefanovic and Jurkiewicz are available after their injuries and these are good news for the team, both will help in defence and specially in attack. Besides russian Kobin always plays good matches against Teucro (he is highly motivated but it is a long story)

Teucro has also full squad despite some minor injuries during the week on important players. They seem better than last year but still they are a class or two below Arrate and they'll be happy staying another year in Asobal with the lower budget of the league. Home factor could level the match a little bit but I think this is a big value. I'm sorry not to put this bet before as I saw odds on Arrate @2,30 and handicaps of +1,5 but I think Arrate will win with at least two goal margin.

Arrate to win @ 2,15 with Interwetten, stake 5 (Limits are low in Interwetten but you can also take Betcris and there are many bookmakers still offering Arrate win or good handicaps over 1,80. That's value for me despite home factor)

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