Dominican Republic vs Croatia Prediction: The Islanders are able to put up a fight

Prediction for the match between Dominican Republic and Croatia which will take place on July 6. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

The Dominican Republic is not a real team at the moment, but rather a number of talented youngsters who can pass and shoot from distance. Streetballers, basically. When Duarte, Montero, Liz and Feliz get things going, they can score a lot and even win.

But wins are rare - the islanders have a poor defence. Egypt hit 48 per cent of their shots in the game. The other thing is that they didn't take very many of those shots - only 58. The Egyptians lost the rebounding battle to the Dominicans and committed more turnovers. A team that loses less often, rebounds better and shoots 68 shots (e.g. Croatia) instead of 58, will score exactly 90 with the same percentage of realisation as Egypt. But the Croatians have better individual skills than the Egyptians.

The team's defence isn't great - they've never allowed less than 90 points. Croatia's starting five plays too much, and the players get tired, while the Dominicans are not very creative on the offensive end, but they are skilful and very fast.

The Greeks allowed the Dominican Republic only 54 shots on their own basket. The Croatians can't boast such defence - the islanders are almost certain to take 60 plus shots. With their field goal percentage, scoring 82 points is a piece of cake.

So, we expect a high-scoring match in which there is no clear favourite. Bookmakers, on the contrary, rate the Dominican Republic's chances extremely low, so we are interested not only in totals, but also in handicaps.