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Olimpia vs. Zvezda: VHL Match Prediction
VHL newcomer Olimpia will host Moscow Zvezda in a regular season match. The hosts lost their first home game in the new league to St. Petersburg Dynamo. Will they be able to make amends in the match against Zvezda on September 7? The answer is in our betting tip
Command Analysis
Olimpiya Kirovo-Chepetsk
Russian FederationCurrent form
"Olimpia" is a debutant of the VHL. Last season the team played in the NMHL, where it managed to reach only the quarterfinals. In pre-season matches the club from the Kirov region also did not impress. It managed to beat only the youth team of "Molot", "Torpedo-Gorky" in a shootout and one of the outsiders of the league, "Chelny". The start of the regular season was also unsuccessful - the Olimpiyskiy lost to "Dynamo" SPb with a score of 1:3.
Disqualifications and injuries
The team has no problems with its composition.
Interesting trends for betting
- The hosts have won just one game in regulation time in their last five matches.
- The hosts' last four official matches have ended in defeats
Estimated line-up : Golovlev, Shikun, Basimov, Drobin, Murashov, Zyryanov, Yanevsky, Shulenin, Karpov, Tarasov, Belokhonov, Fedotov, Aksenov, Shafeev, Pikov, Ponomarev, Oshchepkov, Napolskikh, Lokkoev, Martynets.
Zvezda Chekhov
Russian FederationCurrent form
The Moscow army team finished last season in 14th place and went to the playoffs. In the 1/8 finals, Zvezda faced Kurgan's Zauralye, and the battle between the clubs was no joke. It went to the seventh match, where the Kurgan team turned out to be stronger, scoring five unanswered goals into the goal of the CSKA farm club. The team began the new season with away victories over Toros and Izhstal with the same score of 2:1.
Disqualifications and injuries
The team has no problems with its composition.
Interesting trends for betting
- Last season, on average, 5.4 goals were scored in Zvezda matches
- The team managed to win three games in a row
Approximate lineup : Skotnikov, Alishlalov, Gordeev, Rozhkov, Shashlyshkin, Dronyk, Dryagilev, Belyakov, Zugan, Averochkin, Prokhorov, Rogov, Brutov, Khulapov, Vasin, Orlovich-Grudkov, Stanislavsky, Churkin, Silaev, Yapparov.
Trends
Bet 1st period: total under 1.5 goals
This bet has played in three of the hosts' last four matches
1.83Bet 3rd period: Zvezda win
The visitors have won the third period in their last three matches.
1.93Tip and bets
The guests are showing a pretty good level of play by VHL standards and should easily beat the league's newcomer. Olimpia is unlikely to be able to compete on equal terms with such an opponent, but the difference in class should make itself felt.
Our betting tip is a handicap (-1) on “Zvezda” for 1.75
Bet on total
Both teams did not really reveal themselves in attack in the first matches of the championship. The opponents prefer pragmatic hockey and are unlikely to change their strategy in a face-to-face confrontation.
Betting Tip - total under 5.5 goals with odds of 1.73
Bet on individual total
"Zvezda" scored only two goals in the first two matches, but in the match with "Olimpia" the army team's forwards will certainly show themselves in all their glory. The hosts' newcomers have not yet played together and are unlikely to be able to give a worthy rebuff to such a serious opponent.
Betting Tip - individual total of "Zvezda" more than three goals for 1.60
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