Tolpar vs. Chaika: MHL Match Forecast
On December 25, Tolpar will host Chaika from Nizhny Novgorod at its arena in Ufa. The hosts have suffered defeats from their opponents in the last three matches and today they intend to end this series and win against an opponent who is fighting for high places in the Golden Division of the Eastern Conference. How will the confrontation end and what bets should be made? The answer is in our forecast

Command Analysis

Tolpar

Current form
The youth team of the Salavat Yulaev club has never won the Kharlamov Cup in its history, but is a three-time bronze medalist of the MHL and a silver medalist of the World Cup among youth club teams in 2014. In the last championship, the club took the last place in the Golden Division of the Eastern Conference and thus lost its place in it. Tolpar has been showing excellent play in the current draw and intends to move up a class by the end of the season. In the last match against Ladya, the team showed poor play in defense and suffered a defeat with a score of 2:5, scoring their goals only in the third period. In the previous game, Evgeny Esaulov charges failed to beat their opponent today. Since the start of the championship, the team has looked confident, causing many problems for opponents and fulfilling all the instructions of the coaching staff. At this stage, the team is in first place in its division with 40 points, three points ahead of Lokomotiv-76 and five games less.
Interesting trends for betting
- The team has averaged 3.8 goals per game since the start of the season.
- The club has not lost to its opponent in five of its last six home games

Chaika

Current form
The club from Nizhny Novgorod failed to defend the title of the Kharlamov Cup winner in the last championship, and it will be very difficult to do so in this MHL tournament. The opponents are showing an excellent game and look much stronger than Chaika, but the playoffs will be a completely different game. The team looks confident this season and acts selflessly on the court. After 30 matches, the team was able to win 19 victories, scored 93 goals, but suffered 11 defeats and conceded 75 goals. The Nizhny Novgorod team occupies fourth place in the standings of the Golden Division of the Eastern Conference and has 43 points, eight points behind the leader Irbis. In the last match, the team led by Alexei Isakov beat Loko-76 on the road (3:2), scoring one goal in each period. The club played at home against Tolpar the previous game and managed to win a hard-fought victory. The Nizhny Novgorod team was losing 0:1 after the first 20 minutes, but they were able to show character and scored two goals, winning 2:1 in the end.
Interesting trends for betting
- The club has lost only twice in its last 10 games.
- The team averages three goals per game
Trends
Bet 1st period: total under 1.5 goals
In 3 of the last 5 meetings, the home team scored less than 1.5 goals in the first period.
1.88Bet 3rd period: Tolpar victory
In 2 of the 5 recent matches, Ufa won in the third period
2.35Tip and bets
In this confrontation, we will give preference to the hosts. Tolpar is playing on its home ice and has already proven its worth. The home club intends to end the unsuccessful series and will try to play strictly in defense. The team from Ufa is set only for victory, will go out on the ice again motivated and will win.
Forecast - Tolpar win with odds of 2.00
Bet on total
"Tolpar" will fly forward again and attack a lot, and "Chaika" will show excellent hockey today. It is worth paying attention to the fact that in the last four matches of the hosts, at least six goals were scored out of five, and we believe that in this confrontation there will be quite a lot of them.
Forecast - total over 5.5 goals with odds of 1.83
Bet on individual total
Tolpar has no problems in attack. In the last five matches, the team was able to score 20 times, and in the same number of head-to-head games, they scored 15 goals. We can assume that the hosts will still score more than three goals.
Forecast - individual total of "Tolpar" more than three goals for 1.95