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In this game, the motivation and the quality are largely in favor of the home team. Ventspils still haven't secured round two. Theoretically they could even reach it if they lose against Vienna, depending on Tartu's game in Sweden. The Latvian team will certainly not allow themselves to have such Luxury and there will be no compromise here. They beat Austria in Vienna in the first game by 7 points. It could have been even more had they not started the game so poorly, perhaps even underestimating their opponents to a certain degree. Today, they can't allow themselves to do so. A crucial information is that Vienna have traveled to Latvia without three very important players. These are their top-scorer Predrag Miletić, center Nenad Šulović and their first-team player Lorenzo O'Neal. Just how important these players are is reflected in the fact that Šulović scored 15 points and had 6 rebounds in the first game against Ventspils, while Miletić had 17 points and 7 rebounds. The Austrians emphasize their team is very tired as it is not accustomed to playing on two fronts and they have two games in the league coming soon and they seem as if they just want to get this game over with without any care about the result. This is not surprising since they have no chance of reaching round two. In the two away games in the Eurochallenge cup, they got 2 defeats. They lost by 9 points against Sodertale and by 23 against Tartu when they had their full squad available.