Sakhalin Sharks vs. Amur Tigers: MHL Match Prediction
On December 27, Sakhalin Sharks will host Amur Tigers from Khabarovsk in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The visitors suffered defeats in the last two matches and were unable to fight back their opponents, both on their own and on the away ice in Vladivostok. But the hosts intend to beat their opponent from Khabarovsk once again today. Whose side will fortune be on and what bets should they play? The answer is in our forecast

Command Analysis

Sakhalinskie Akuly

Current form
The team has not been showing great results this season and has no chance of making it into the top three of the Western Conference Silver Division. The opponents fighting for play-in spots have already pulled ahead by 10 or more points, and the club does not have a strong roster to compete with for high spots in the MHL. In the last match, Sergei Bazhukhin men were able to beat their opponent from Vladivostok. The match against Typhoon was an equal fight and ended 3:1, and this victory broke a series of three defeats. The club suffered a defeat to Admiral youth team (4:5) in the previous game. In the Silver Division of the Western Conference, the team is in seventh place in the standings and has only scored 24 points, and in 27 games played, only 10 victories have been won and 75 goals have been scored with 83 goals conceded. Let see if the coaching staff has prepared their players for today confrontation.
Interesting trends for betting
- The club has not scored less than two goals in its last nine out of ten games
- The team has not lost in the second period in the last three games.

Amurskie Tigry

Current form
The Amur Tigers are not showing a very confident game this season and are unable to break into the top eight teams of their division. Compared to the last championship, the team is completely unpredictable and, most likely, the Khabarovsk team will go back to the Silver Division based on the results of the MHL championship. In the last match, Konstantin Bogdanovsky charges suffered another defeat this season and were unable to fight back their opponent from Vladivostok. The match with Typhoon ended with a victory for the Far Eastern team with a score of 3:0. The game before, the club from Khabarovsk was unable to beat Dynamo-Shinnik from Bobruisk, losing with a score of 1:4 in the end, scoring their goal only after four goals were missed. The team scored 22 points in 27 matches and is in the last line of the tournament table. Khabarovsk has 10 wins, 17 losses and 78 goals conceded. The gap from the eighth line is only two points, which must be made up to get through to the play-in.
Interesting trends for betting
- The team has failed to win in either period in the last two games.
- The club has suffered defeats in eight of its last ten matches
Trends
Bet 1st period: total over 1.5 goals
In the last two meetings, the hosts scored more than 1.5 goals in the first period
1.85Bet 2nd period: Sakhalin Sharks win
In 2 of the 3 recent matches, the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk team won in the second period
2.50Tip and bets
In this confrontation, we will give preference to the Sakhalin Sharks, and the favorite of the match is the home team. The team is playing at its arena, and we hope that it will defeat its opponent again. The home team is set only for victory, will use a more balanced lineup and will not leave a chance to the opponent from Khabarovsk.
Forecast - victory of "Sakhalin Sharks" in the match with a coefficient of 1.70
Bet on total
In this pair, the hosts will have the advantage. The teams are absolutely different in terms of the level of play and selection of players. It is worth paying attention to the fact that in the last four matches of the Amur Tigers out of five in the MHL, less than six goals were scored, and we believe that in this confrontation there will be no goal-scoring extravaganza.
Forecast - total under 5.5 goals with odds of 1.80
Bet on individual total
Sakhalin Sharks have no problems converting scoring opportunities. In the last five games, the team has scored an average of three goals, and we believe that the hosts will be able to upset their opponents more than twice.
Forecast - individual total of "Sakhalin Sharks" more than 2.5 goals for 1.67