"Diesel" - "Ryazan": forecast for the VHL match
On December 20, Diesel will host Ryazan at its arena in Penza. The season for the Ryazan team is going much better than the last championship, and today the club intends to fight for victory. However, an unexpected surprise can be expected from the Diesel players, since the club plays confidently at home. How will the confrontation end and what bets should be played? The answer is in our forecast.

Command Analysis

Dizel Penza

Current form
In the last VHL championship, Diesel failed to make it to the playoffs, as it only took 22nd place in the standings. This season, the team is led by Albert Loginov, and the game has become more attacking. The Diesel players had a bad start to the VHL championship, but they have improved their position and are fighting for a spot in the Petrov Cup playoffs. Recently, the Penza team has started to spoil the fans with results and has won six victories in the last 10 matches. The team game has started to improve, and we will see how much enthusiasm the team has in pursuit of the TOP-16, where the gap is only three points. Since the start of the championship, the team has won 17 victories with 20 losses and scored only 88 goals. In the last match, the team lost to Torpedo-Gorky (1:2), and the game before that, they suffered a defeat in Neftekamsk from Toros (2:4). Diesel is in 22nd place in the league table with 37 points and intends to play in knockout matches this season.
Interesting trends for betting
- On average, the club has scored 2.4 goals per game since the start of the season.
- The team has lost to its current opponent in four games in a row

Ryazan

Current form
The Ryazan club cannot put the results of the past season down as an asset, as it did not make it to the Petrov Cup playoffs and took a place in the second twenty. The team did a lot of work in the off-season, rotated its roster and intends to fight for the highest places. The team led by Anatoly Fedotov has shown excellent results in the current VHL draw and there is no doubt about it. The club faces the task of reaching the Bratina Cup playoffs. The team is fighting at the proper level in the regular championship and is in second place in the standings, lagging behind the leader St. Petersburg Dynamo by only six points, but the ones catching up have come close and are not far behind. In the last game, the Ryazan team beat Moscow Unison (2:0), and in the previous game they suffered a crushing defeat from the season leader 2:3, having conceded a puck in each period. It is worth noting that Ryazan has suffered only one defeat in the past five matches and today intends to get on the nerves of the club from Penza.
Interesting trends for betting
- The club concedes an average of two goals per game
- The team has not lost in the third period in six of its last seven games.
Trends
Bet 1st period: total under 1.5 goals
In 3 of the last 5 meetings, the visitors scored less than 1.5 goals in the first period
1.51Bet 3rd period: victory of “Ryazan”
In 1 of the 3 recent matches, the visiting team won in the third period
2.85Tip and bets
In this confrontation, Ryazan will again play only to win. The guests have recently looked much stronger and more powerful than Diesel and intend to win another victory in the championship. The team from Ryazan will use the developed game plan, and we can assume that experience and a more balanced team composition will become decisive factors in the match.
Prediction: Ryazan wins the match with odds of 1.85
Bet on total
This pair is expected to play on counterattacks with a small number of scoring opportunities. The opponents have been doing well in attack in recent games, but they have not been able to score many goals. In the last seven face-to-face matches of the opponents out of nine, there was no scoring extravaganza, which we expect today.
Forecast - total under 4.5 goals with odds of 1.66
Bet on individual total
Ryazan has no problems in the final stage and since the start of the championship the club has scored an average of 2.5 goals. We can assume that the hosts will score more than two goals, as in the three previous face-to-face games.
Forecast - individual total of "Ryazan" more than two goals for 1.83