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Severstal vs. Avangard: KHL match betting tip
Severstal continues its series of games on its home court and will host Avangard Omsk on January 8. The Cherepovets team quickly recovered from an unpleasant defeat to Dynamo Moscow and were stronger than Spartak in the shootout. The Omsk team intends to continue improving its position in the Eastern Conference table and is already in clear sixth place. The teams already met each other at the beginning of December and then the steelmakers were better than their opponent. How will it be this time? This is in the betting tip for the confrontation
Command Analysis
Severstal Cherepovets
Russian FederationCurrent form
Severstal has been showing weak results for a long period of time and has actually failed the end of autumn. Andrey Kozyrev's charges got down to business before the break, but have now dropped back to seventh place in the conference. At the moment, the steelmakers have 52 points after 42 matches and they can get closer to CSKA and other Western leaders. After the Channel One Cup, the Cherepovets team beat Sochi twice (4:2 and 2:1) and won a beautiful, strong-willed victory over Avtomobilist, coming back from a 0:2 score at the start of the first period (3:2). Having finished the home series of games with a victory over Neftekhimik (4:1), the club from the Vologda Region played in Ufa (0:2) and Kazan (3:2). Returning to Cherepovets in the new year, Adam Liszka's team was routed by Moscow Dynamo (2:7), but quickly recovered and beat Spartak by a large margin (5:3).
The black and yellows have not been playing their best in their own half of the ice this period of the season. They have conceded ten times in the two previous games, and goalies Aleksandr Samoilov and Konstantin Shostak have seriously improved their performance in terms of the percentage of shots saved. It was Shostak who took to the ice in the last game against Spartak, but he did not always help out his partners during the match.
Kirill Pilipenko remains the top scorer of the club from the Vologda region. The forward scored 38 points (19+19) and ranks fifth on the list of the most productive hockey players in the NHL. Daniil Aymurzin, who is in excellent shape and scored in the last three matches, has come close to him. The young forward has 36 points (23+13) in the goal+pass system.
Disqualifications and injuries
Adam Liszka will not help his teammates in the game against Omsk.
Interesting trends for betting
- Severstal gets five minutes of penalty time per match
The team is currently the most disciplined in the league.
- Severstal has 83% neutralization of the opponent's majority
The Cherepovets team is in fourth place in the championship in terms of playing while short-handed.
Avangard Omsk
Russian FederationCurrent form
Avangard is gradually gaining momentum and has already secured a good foothold among the eight best teams in the East. The club from Omsk Oblast has 43 points after 41 games. After the change of coach to Guy Boucher and the dismissal of Sergei Zvyagin, the visitors' results have become significantly better. The Hawks have won four games in a row and have seriously improved their position in the conference table, but now the Omsk team has only three wins in six starts. The red-blacks finished the calendar year with a defeat to Metallurg (1:2), and in the current away series they were stronger than Neftekhimik (5:1) and Ak Bars (3:1). The Siberians conceded first, but quickly recovered and scored three unanswered goals.
The Omsk team has improved in terms of realizing chances and has scored 16 goals in four previous matches. Damir Sharipzyanova is the guest team's leader in terms of points (6+25). He is three points ahead of Reed Boucher, who finishes the Omsk club's attacks more often than others (16+12). The team's other hockey players are performing worse and are less likely to help in the attack.
In the five previous games, Avangard has conceded 12 times, which is not a very weak result. The Hawks recently signed Nikita Serebryakov, who has fit in well with the new team. The goalie has blocked 92.71% of shots in his possession, but has not yet had a single dry match. Now he is the main goalie of the club.
Disqualifications and injuries
Emil Galimov, Vladimir Tkachev, Sergei Boykov, Alex Grant and Daniil Stepanov will not come to Cherepovets.
Interesting trends for betting
- Avangard throws 28 times per game on average
The visitors are not very active in attack and do not make many shots at the opponents' goal.
- Omsk wins 50.6% of faceoffs
Siberian centers have won more than half of their faceoffs this season.
Trends
Bet 2nd period: total over 1.5 goals
In three out of four matches involving Severstal, the second period was productive
1.67Bet 1st period: Avangard will score
The Hawks scored against Severstal in the first period in three out of four games
1.73Tip and bets
The Hawks have found excellent form, although they lost a bit at the end of December. In the current away series, Guy Boucher's charges have won two games in two and they played well on their half of the ice. Nikita Serebryakov was rightly named the best goalie last year, as he often saved his teammates in the first matches of January. Severstal lacks reliability in this part of the season, having conceded ten times in two games. In early December, Andrei Kozyrev's team took home a victory from Omsk, but we expect a rematch in Cherepovets.
Prediction - Avangard wins the match for 2.10
Bet on individual total
Severstal was very reliable in defense and did not concede in large quantities for a long time. Avangard was very charged at the beginning of January and scored eight times in two games in 2025. The black and yellow ones frankly failed at the start of the new year and conceded ten times from Dynamo and Spartak. We think that Omsk will be able to open up the hosts' defense.
We bet on Avangard's individual total of over 2.5 goals with odds of 2.00
Total Bet
The meeting between the teams in Omsk was productive and allowed the stands to see six goals scored. Severstal played the first games of the new year in Cherepovets brightly. During two meetings in the Ice Palace, 18 goals were scored. Avangard is capable of playing spectacularly, which we have seen recently. We think that the teams will make at least six accurate shots between them.
We take the total over 5.5 pucks for 2.10
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