"Stalnye Lisy" - "Sibirskie Snipers": forecast for the MHL match
On December 3, the Steel Foxes will host the Siberian Snipers in Magnitogorsk. The hosts underestimated their opponents in the last face-to-face meeting and suffered a defeat on their home ice. The Magnitogorsk team intends to take revenge and we will see if they can do it. Whose side will luck be on and what bets should they play? The answer is in our forecast

Command Analysis

Stalnye Lisy

Current form
The youth team of Magnitogorsk Metallurg has good prerequisites to get closer to the final of the Kharlamov Cup in the current season of the MHL. The Foxes look confident, act at high speed, but in some moments they lack skill. In the last calendar match, the team could not cope with the Siberian Snipers and suffered a completely unnecessary defeat. The team gave the initiative to the opponent from the first minutes, could not follow the instructions of the head coach and only once managed to hit the opponent goal. The Steel Foxes lost to their opponent from Novosibirsk with a score of 1:4 and retained their position in the league. This loss was the 13th this season for the Magnitogorsk team, with 63 goals conceded. The club beat the Kuznetsk Bears (2:1) in the previous game. Stanislav Shumik team has 32 points and is in sixth place in the tournament table, seven points behind the second-placed Irbis, but they are 12 points behind the leader, which will be very difficult to win back.
Interesting trends for betting
- On average, the team concedes 3.8 goals per game
- The team has failed to win in the second period in four of its last five games.

Sibirskie Snaipery

Current form
The Siberian Snipers are just starting to show good and meaningful hockey and can displace the Kuznetsk Bears from the eighth line of the Golden Division of the Eastern Conference. The Novosibirsk club has a task to get into the playoffs and if they do not lose points, then a place in the knockout matches is guaranteed. The team is already showing a game no worse than more famous teams, and is set for a fierce fight in the MHL. The team start to the championship was a failure, but the championship has just begun and a lot can be made up for. In the last calendar confrontation, the Siberian Snipers beat their today opponent (4:1), without losing in any of the periods. In the previous game, the club defeated Yekaterinburg Avto on the road (6:2). At this stage, they are in last place in the tournament table of their division, with 19 points to their credit and only two points behind the Novokuznetsk team, which is closing out the top eight.
Interesting trends for betting
- On average, the team scores three goals per game
- In four of the last five games, the Siberian Snipers did not lose in regulation time.
Trends
Bet 1st period: total over 1.5 goals
In 3 of the last 5 meetings, the home team scored more than 1.5 goals in the first period
1.67Bet 3rd period: victory of "Siberian Snipers"
In the last match, the visiting team won in the third period
4.60Tip and bets
In this confrontation, we will agree with the bookmakers, who put the home team as the favorites. The "Stalnye Lisy" are holding the meeting at their arena and today they intend to take revenge on their opponent from Novosibirsk. The team from Magnitogorsk is set for victory, has worked on their mistakes and will win the confrontation.
Forecast – handicap (-1.5) puck on the “Stalnye Lisy” with odds of 1.72
Bet on total
In this pair, the opponents intend to act on opposite courses. The "Stalnye Lisy" will try to score quickly and control the course of the match and not let the opponent seize the initiative, as in the last game. It is worth paying attention to the fact that in the last four matches of the guests, less than seven goals were scored out of five, and we believe that in this confrontation there will not be so many of them.
Forecast - total under 6.5 goals with odds of 1.63
Bet on individual total
The Siberian Snipers have no problems in attack, and in the past two matches the club scored 10 goals against their opponents. We can assume that the visitors will score more than two goals.
Forecast - individual total of "Siberian Snipers" more than 2.5 goals for 2.40