Olympiakos played his first game without  David Blatt as a coach, and they beat Valencia with 89-63.

Five players had double digit points, with the big captain Vasilis Spanoulis and the Serbian giant Nicola Milutinof scoring 17 points each.

Kemzura is still on the bench while the board is looking for a new coach. The Lithuanian has his chance and he stated that his team can beat anyone in Euroleague.

The fact that Olympiakos does not participate in the Greek league allow to his players to have more days of rest than their opponents.

Zenit lost at home from Barcelona with 63-87. It was a really bad performance. Only Evgeny Voronov managed to score double digit (10 points).

That was the second defeat in Euroleague. In both games, the score difference went up to more than 20 points.

In the VTB League, Zenit beat CSKA in Moscow with 82-79, which is a great achievement.

However, in their last league game they lost at home with 69-76 from Nizni. Plaza's players are not familiar in playig two high competitive games in a week.

Since Plaza made his debut as a head coach in the EuroLeague, Joan Plaza has played 8 times in Piraeus against Olympiacos and only managed to win one of those duels. With Real Madrid, Plaza played three times at the Reds' home and lost all of them. With Unicaja, Plaza fell at Peace and Friendhsip a total of four times with no wins at all. The only win for Plaza in Piraeus was with Zalgiris Kaunas  seven years ago.

Let's take a look at main and special odds markets offered at bet365 website :

• FullTime Result : 1.19(Olympiaco) - 5.00(Zenit St.Petersburg)
• Over/Under 155.5 points : 1.90 (Over) - 1.90 (Under)
• Race to 20 points: 1.43 (Olympiacos ) - 2.65(Zenit St.Petersburg)

*bet365 odds as offered at  17/10, 15:00CET (subject to change without prior notice) | 18+, T&Cs Apply, BeGambleAware.org

Georgios Printezis and Will Thomas are two forwards who will clash in and outside the paint in this game.

Printezis is still one of the main players for Olympiacos, as he had a great start to the season with averages of 14.0 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.0 assists.

Thomas is also one of Zenit's main weapons with 11.5 points, 6.0 rebounds and 1.0 assists. These two players will be protagonists of one of the main duels we will be able to see on the court.