Women's Volleyball European C'ship Qualifiers, May 21-25

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Austria vs Slovakia @ 20:15 CET, May the 21st Wednesday Women's EC Qualifiers 2nd leg to be played in Austria. Slovakia could barely beat Austria 3-2 in Poprad last year when they were with their ideal selection. Now Slovakians are missing a couple of key players (Kosova, Brambarova) and playing in Austria won't help them. Austria looks in good shape, having beaten Slovenia and playing a close match with Azerbaijan prior to this tournament, which are a class above Slovakia at the moment. Slovakia lost both friendlies to Slovenia last week and didn't give out good signals. In light of all, I believe Austria deserves to be small favorites, so ML and +1.5 sets odds on the Austrians are just too good to be true.

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Re: Women's Volleyball European C'ship Qualifiers, May 21-25 Montenegro W vs Slovenia W @ 15:00 CET Women's EC Qualifiers 2nd round 3rd gameday in Spain. We have two equal teams here with similar results vs other opponents of the group in first two days. I really don't see any sense in having Montenegro set as such huge underdogs, which isn't justified at all. MNE have a compact team oriented on two star players Bokan & Ivanovic, who are very experienced at this level. Slovenia are not world beaters by any means, as they have a modest team oriented on role players like Hutinski, Potokar, Cvetanovic etc. Overall, I see a balanced matchup here, with Montenegro having more chances for a win. I believe odds are missed and will try to take advantage of this situation. Montenegro +1.5 sets for high stakes and Montenegro to win for smaller stakes are my choices here.