Khimik vs. Bars: VHL match betting tip
Khimik will host Bars from Kazan in Voskresensk on February 1. The hosts won the Petrov Cup in the 2022/23 season and would not mind lifting the coveted trophy over their heads once again, having all the prerequisites for this. Let see what the farm club of Moscow Spartak has prepared for us in the game with the Kazan team. Will the hosts be able to win another victory and what bets will play in the match? The answer is in our betting tip

Command Analysis

Khimik Voskresensk

Current form
Since the start of the regular championship, the team has shown a good game and has been fighting at the proper level throughout the season. At this stage, Khimik is in the group of leaders, claiming victory in the regular championship. The blue-yellows have played 47 matches and were able to score 62 points, which correspond to seventh place in the standings. In the last five matches, Voskresensk has won only two victories and was able to earn four points. In the last confrontation, the team met with Norilsk. The match turned out to be ineffective. Yegor Bashkatov charges fought with the opponent on equal terms and eventually lost with a score of 1:2. The game before, the Moscow Region team won against Krasnoyarsk Sokol (4:3), and this victory was the 28th for the club since the start of the championship, and 164 goals scored are one of the best indicators in the league. The gap to first place is eight points, but the fight for vacant places in the playoffs is still ahead.
Interesting trends for betting
- In the last five games, the team has scored an average of 3.4 goals
- In the last 10 games, the club has won only five victories

Bars Kazan

Current form
The Kazan club can count the last game period as a success. The team seems to be showing meaningful hockey, fighting at the proper level, but alternates victories with defeats. In the last five matches, the team has won only two victories and only one was in regular time. Alexander Stepanov charges lost to Ryazan (0:1) in the last confrontation on the opponent ice. The Kazan team looked good, but the missed puck at the end of the first period became fatal for the club. The team lost the game before with a crushing score of 2:7 to Torpedo-Gorky in Nizhny Novgorod. Since the beginning of the championship, Bars has won 23 victories and scored 130 goals, with 25 defeats and 145 goals conceded. After 48 games played, the team is in 19th place in the tournament table with 53 points and is only two points behind its TOP-16 rivals, which can easily be won back if you do not make ridiculous mistakes, especially in matches with weaker opponents.
Interesting trends for betting
- On average, the club concedes three goals per game
- The team has sent the game into overtime only once in its last 10 games.
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 3rd period: Khimik win
In 3 of the 5 recent matches, Voskresensk won in the third period
1.90Tip and bets
In this confrontation, bookmakers put the home team as the undisputed favorite. The Voskresensk team has gained excellent form, has been showing brilliant play lately and intends to leave the opponent from Kazan out of business again. Khimik may well beat Bars with a difference of at least two goals, as in the last face-to-face game on home ice.
Betting Tip - handicap (-1.5) puck on Khimik with odds of 1.98
Bet on total
Both teams prefer an attacking style of play. In the last face-to-face match in Kazan, the opponents scored seven goals between them. Four of the past five meetings of the Voskresensk team were productive, and we believe that a goal extravaganza will most likely take place.
Betting Tip - total over 5.5 goals with odds of 1.90
Bet on individual total
Khimik has no problems with goals scored. In eight of the last ten matches, the team has scored at least two goals and intends to score a lot against the opponent again. We expect the hosts to score at least four goals.
Betting Tip - Khimik individual total over 3.5 goals for 2.00