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Avtomobilist vs. Dinamo Minsk: KHL match betting tip
Minsk Dynamo will try to improve its tournament position in Yekaterinburg on January 12. Dmitry Kvartalnov charges have gained excellent form and are now engaged in a real fight for the leading positions in the conference. Avtomobilist used to be in first place in the East, but now the hosts are very far from it. The Urals team does not play well at home and mainly has to rely on the reliable play of their goalkeepers. Will the Zubrs be able to score against the Machinists? Look for the answer in our betting tip for the match
Command Analysis
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
Russian FederationCurrent form
Avtomobilist remains in fifth place in the Eastern Conference and has 52 points. The team was recently on a long winning streak, after which it is quite expected to be on the decline. In December, the hosts won only two victories, while they lost seven out of 13 previous matches. After an unsuccessful long series of away games, Nikolay Zavarukhin charges returned home and played against Traktor (3:1), Metallurg (1:2, B) and Lada (2:3, B). The machinists returned to the Urals having lost in Chelyabinsk (0:2) and taken two points in Astana (3:2, B). Returning to the ice of Uralets Arena, the Yekaterinburg team won a strong-willed victory over Admiral (4:3). They added at the end and made the result in the final five minutes of the match.
Anatoly Golyshev team is still very dependent on the play of their goalies. Vladislav Galkin and Evgeny Alikin have lost their former form and have not been helping out their partners lately. The younger Galkin brought important victories from a psychological point of view in Yaroslavl, Yekaterinburg and Astana, and now he has better statistics. The Ural alumnus has reflected 92.49% of shots this season and made three shutouts in 24 games.
Stefan Da Costa was recently the league top scorer. The Frenchman currently has 36 points (8+28) in the goal+pass system and continues to provide large amounts of assists to his teammates. He is followed by Brooks Macek, who has 30 scoring actions (15+15) and has been the most successful finisher of Avtomobilist attacks. The other players cannot yet boast of a strong offensive game.
Disqualifications and injuries
Curtis Wolk and Nick Ebert will not play in the next game.
Interesting trends for betting
- Avtomobilist wins 46.8% of faceoffs
The Yekaterinburg team looks weak at the point and often loses to its opponents in this indicator
- The average car gets 7.52 minutes of penalty time.
The team is usually sent off at least four times per match
Dinamo Minsk
BelarusCurrent form
Dynamo is in fifth place in the West, but the Minsk team is ready to fight for a place in the top three of the conference. At the moment, the club from the capital of Belarus has 55 points after 44 games. At the beginning of the new calendar year, the Zubrs confidently won in Nizhny Novgorod (3:0), but were unable to beat Torpedo in Minsk (2:4). After an unpleasant defeat, the capital hockey players did not relax and beat CSKA (2:0) and Sibir (3:2, OT) on the ice of Minsk Arena (3:2, OT). In the match against the Siberians, the then hosts had to come back twice during regular time. Already in the first minute of overtime, Vitaly Pinchuk brought his partners an important victory.
Dynamo have been playing well in attack in January and have scored 13 accurate shots in their last five games, but only twice have they been able to score more than two goals in a game. Vadim Shipachev has gained excellent form and continues to prove his high level of skill, leading the club list of scorers. The Russian has scored 35 goals for his team this season (6+29).
The visitors have been good defensively at the start of the year. They have conceded seven times in their last five starts, and in their last two games the red light behind the Minsk team’s goal has only come on twice. Vasily Demchenko has had a great start to his performances for the Dynamiks and has three shutouts in nine starts for the new team, stopping 95.59% of the shots they have faced.
Disqualifications and injuries
All the visiting leaders will play in Yekaterinburg.
Interesting trends for betting
- Dynamo has a 55:35 ratio of goals scored and conceded in the second period
The Minsk team plays powerfully in the second twenty minutes and often scores goals in it.
- Dynamo averages 35 shots on target
The team is one of the best shooting teams in the league at the moment.
Trends
Bet 1st period: Dynamo will not lose
Minsk residents have not lost in the first period in four out of six games
1.40Bet 2nd period: Dynamo will score
The Zubrs have scored in the second period in their last five games.
1.70Tip and bets
Dynamo continues to move forward and is now one of the strongest teams in the league. The Minsk team can well fight for second place in the conference, from which Dmitry Kvartalnov team is separated by only two points. Avtomobilist is unstable and demonstrates a rather weak level of play in Yekaterinburg. The hosts are playing without two attack leaders and with great difficulty beat not the strongest teams in early January. We think that in this match the Zubrs will dominate on the court and achieve success. We suggest betting on the victory of the guests with a zero handicap.
Prediction - Dynamo win with Asian handicap (0) for 2.20
Bet on individual total
Avtomobilist scores only 2.43 goals this season. In the last five matches, the Urals team only managed to score more than twice per game, and two of the four goals scored against Admiral came in the final five minutes of the match. The Dynamo team is good in defense, and Vasily Demchenko is experiencing a second youth. We don’t expect more than two accurate shots from the hosts.
We bet on the individual total of Avtomobilist under 2.5 goals with a coefficient of 1.82
Total Bet
Matches involving the Urals team are rarely bright and pleasing with their scoring. Approximately the same can be said about Minsk. Dmitry Kvartalnov has put quality hockey from defense, and in the last five games the Zubry have conceded only seven times. We believe that both teams will try to play as strictly as possible in defense and there will be no more than five goals in the game.
We take the total under five goals for 1.72
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