Olympiacos at Barcelona

BARCELONA (Interstat) — Olympiacos will visit Barcelona on Friday at Palau Blaugrana in Barcelona, Spain, in a matchup of two clubs in their early-season schedules. Olympiacos enters with a 7-1 record, while Barcelona is 5-4. The game is Barcelona’s home contest, with Olympiacos as the visiting team.

Olympiacos most recently earned a 102-97 overtime win at Valencia. Evan Fournier, Aleksandar Vezenkov and Nikola Milutinov were the most productive players for Olympiacos in that game. Olympiacos has won seven of its first eight games, with its only loss coming at Virtus Bologna by a 96-94 score. The club also has home wins over Kolossos Rodou 99-83 and Anadolu Efes 89-66, road wins over Iraklis 78-68, Zalgiris 93-91 and Baskonia 106-89, and a home win over Fenerbahce 92-90.

Barcelona most recently defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv 90-87 at home. Joel Parra, Tyrese Martin and Aleksander Balcerowski were the most productive players for Barcelona in that game. Barcelona has won five of its first nine games. Its other results include home wins over Valencia 89-86, Leyma Coruna 119-101 and Anadolu Efes 89-82, and a road win at Besiktas 95-82. Its losses came against Zalgiris 88-81 at home, Murcia 100-94 on the road, Dubai 94-87 on the road and Badalona 101-87 on the road.

Olympiacos has won six of its last seven games. Barcelona has won three of its last five. Both teams enter Friday after victories. The victory over Valencia improved Olympiacos to 7-1. The win over Maccabi Tel Aviv moved Barcelona to 5-4. Olympiacos has scored at least 99 points in three of its last seven games. Barcelona has scored at least 89 points in four of its last five games.

The game is scheduled for Friday at Palau Blaugrana. Barcelona will be the home team. Olympiacos will be the visiting team. The teams will meet in Barcelona, Spain. The date of the game will be Friday. Olympiacos will continue its schedule after Friday with games against Vikos Ioanninon, Fenerbache Koleji, Promitheas Patras, Besiktas, Olimpia Milano, Peristeri, Crvena Zvezda, Maroussi, Dubai and Aris. The upcoming schedule for Barcelona includes Badalona, Olimpia Milano, Basket Zaragoza, Bayern, Valencia, Unicaja, Hapoel Tel Aviv, Breogán, Panathinaikos and Obradoiro. Both clubs continue their schedules after Friday.

Interstat’s game simulator projects a final score of Barcelona 83, Olympiacos 76. Olympiacos has been installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of -3.5. The over/under for the game is 176.