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Scottish Open semifinals, on the one hand we have the confrontation between the Englishman Ronnie O'Sullivan (world number 3) against the Scotsman John Higgins (world number 7).
On the other hand we also have Scottish Anthony McGill (world number 15) against Belgian Luca Brecel (world number 18).
In our case we are left with the first semifinal, which will begin at 2:00 p.m., in another classic, which we can classify as a living history of the world of snooker, the confrontations between Ronnie O'Sullivan and John Higgins, who have played in up to a total of 74 games, with 38 wins for Ronnie, 33 for John and 3 draws.
With practically traced odds, around 2.10-2.20 in most bookmakers, we are looking for Higgins's simple victory at a current odds of 2.20 at Bet365, personally I see value up to 2.10.
The reason for seeking the simple victory of the Scotsman in a match that will be at the best of 11 frames, the first to reach 6 goes to the final, is that Higgins today can make Ronnie suffer more than the other way around and I Let me explain, we are not going to doubt the quality of Ronnie O'Sullivan, the most talented player, but as soon as a game gets 'uphill', he suffers enough to turn it around, also in the defensive section the Scotsman can 'look for the tickles'.
Throughout this week, Ronnie has had rivals who have made little demands of him on a defensive level, perhaps the one who put him in the most trouble was Jamie Jones, victory by 4-3, the rest of the rivals have left him on the field What he likes, the offensive profile, players like Li Hang, Liang Wenbo, Michael Georgiou or Dominic Dale are not exactly offensive profiles, and Ronnie was on the ropes in several of these games anyway.
For his part throughout this week Higgins has had perhaps tougher rivals, such as Alfie Burden, Noppon Saengkham, Ryan Day, Martin Gould and David Gilbert, possibly the weakest defensively would be Burden and Day.
In a match that I personally consider 50-50, I think we have value in Higgins' simple victory, to conclude by commenting that he plays at home and that last November they already played twice, with 2 victories for the Scotsman .
As always prudence and tranquility, we already know the quality of Ronnie O'Sullivan, but if he is not at a good level of concentration, Higgins can take him to his ground and make him make more mistakes than necessary.
Let's go with a stake 1.
Greetings and good luck.
