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Sibir vs. Traktor: KHL match forecast
As part of the regular KHL championship, a match between Sibir and Traktor will take place on October 21. The Chelyabinsk team is considered the favorite of this confrontation, even though they are playing away. However, this is not surprising, because the visitors remain the leader of the Eastern Conference and are in excellent shape. The Snowmen have recently alternated successful matches with defeats and could not get into the series. Plus, the last nine matches between the clubs ended in favor of the Bears. Will this trend continue? What bet should you place on this event? You will find out from our forecast
Command Analysis
Sibir Novosibirsk
Russian FederationCurrent form
Sibir is currently in third place in the Eastern Conference and has 19 points. The team showed poor results at the start of the season, but eventually recovered and began to earn points on a regular basis. However, recently the team has not been able to find stability, and it alternated successful matches with defeats.
Let us recall that Novosibirsk lost to Lada (3:4 OT) and beat Neftekhimik (2:1) on the road, but suffered a 2:4 defeat at home against Severstal. At the same time, before the match with Cherepovets, Epanchintsev team had a full week to recover after the away series, but they were completely unprepared for this meeting.
Let us emphasize that the "snowmen" have the most problems when there are more than two pucks in their net, because they themselves are often not very productive. With the support of home stands, the team, in any case, scores more than on the road. The club is also currently the best in the majority and has 31.7% of the extra man conversion rate. Much depends on the defenders, who take an active part in the attack. It is no coincidence that Trevor Murphy remains the club leading scorer and has already scored 18 points in the goal + pass system.
Disqualifications and injuries
Beck and Martynov will not take part in the match due to injuries.
Interesting trends for betting
- On average, Sibir takes no more than 26 shots per match
Novosibirsk players spend a lot of time on defense and shoot very little compared to other clubs
- Novosibirsk players receive 5.75 minutes of penalty time per game
The "Snowmen" play quite disciplined and try not to break the rules out of the blue
Traktor
Russian FederationCurrent form
Traktor is in first place in the East and has a good lead over its closest rival, being four points ahead. The team has completed a long series of home games and has won four out of five. It stumbled only in the match against Avangard (1:3), but after that it dealt with Ak Bars (3:1) and Salavat Yulaev (4:2). As a rule, Benoit Groux team wins most of its victories by a few goals and deals with its opponents within 60 minutes. The Chelyabinsk team also continues to demonstrate extremely high-quality play in defense and usually does not allow its opponents to score more than once or twice.
Of course, the "bears" themselves rarely score a large number of goals, but despite this, they are the most productive club in the Eastern Conference at the moment. Of course, Chelyabinsk does not have such a crazy percentage of power play implementation as "Sibir", but on average they use every fifth attempt, which is also a good indicator. Ahead of "Traktor" there is not the most difficult series of away games, so it can extend its winning streak. Plus, this season Chelyabinsk has lost in regulation time on the road only once. On foreign rinks they play even more closed hockey than at home, and mainly play defensively.
Disqualifications and injuries
There are no injured or disqualified players on the team.
Interesting trends for betting
- According to statistics, Traktor concedes 1.25 goals per game away from home
At the same time, at home, the Chelyabinsk team concedes an order of magnitude more - 2.44 goals per game
- Chelyabinsk residents have 85.1% of excess neutralization
Traktor plays well in the minority and ranks fifth in the league in this indicator.
Trends
Bet 1st period: total under 1.5 goals
In the last five games involving visitors, the first period was unproductive
1.65Bet 3rd period: Chelyabinsk win
In four out of five meetings against Novosibirsk, Chelyabinsk won in the third period
2.60Tip and bets
Traktor currently looks stronger than its opponent in many aspects. The Chelyabinsk team is in excellent shape and is winning match after match. Earlier, they suffered only one defeat in regulation time on the road, and the Novosibirsk team did not have time to recover after a long break and lost to Severstal the day before. In previous face-to-face meetings with Sibir, the visitors achieved success either in regulation time or beyond 60 minutes. Stylistically, Gro team is a very inconvenient opponent for the "snowmen", so, in our opinion, it makes sense to bet on its success again.
Prediction - Traktor win with handicap (0) for 1.75
Bet on individual total
Traktor does not concede more than two goals on average, and before this, it rarely conceded even twice on the road. Sibir also spends more time on defense and scores few goals in matches with the championship leaders. In addition, in four previous matches out of five against Chelyabinsk, the Snowmen could not score three goals. We think that this time even the support of the stands will not help them.
We bet on the individual total of "Siberia" under 2.5 goals for 1.65
Total Bet
Most of the games involving the guests are not particularly productive and end up being "low-scoring". The last three games between the clubs also ended with fewer than five goals. Most likely, the teams will be wary of each other this time and will act with an eye on their own goal, so we will not see any open hockey.
We take the total under five goals for 1.74
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