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Ak Bars — Lada: forecast for the KHL match
On February 23, Ak Bars and Lada will play their fourth match this season in Kazan. The Leopards broke a series of defeats and returned to the fight for leadership in the East. Tolyatti's team is unlikely to be able to compete for the playoffs, because now they are 13 points behind Siberia, which is on the eighth line. Will the hosts be able to earn important points? Or will the "owls" make another sensation? This is stated in the forecast for the match
Command Analysis
Ak Bars Kazan
Russian FederationCurrent form
Ak Bars remains on the fourth line in the Eastern table and is still counting on the first place in the conference. The team led by Anvar Gatiyatullin has earned 74 points in 57 games and is only three points behind the second-placed Avtomobilist and only one point behind Salavat Yulaev. The hosts returned from the break in bad shape and lost four meetings in a row in regular time. Before returning home, they were defeated in Ufa (0:3), Omsk (2:6) and Nizhnekamsk (2:3). On the eve of the "bars" interrupted a series of failures and with great difficulty beat "Neftekhimik" (3:2, OT), having missed the advantage of two goals during the confrontation.
The Badgers are playing very poorly offensively at this stage of the season and in the previous five games they scored only seven accurate hits. The leaders of the attack in the person of Artem Galimov (29+22), Dmitry Yashkin (30+18) and Alexander Barabanov (19+28) have lost their former form and have rarely helped their partners to win lately. On average, Kazan players score 3.09 goals per match during the regular season.
Timur Bilyalov almost always took to the ice at the start during February. The 29-year-old goalkeeper lost three out of four meetings with the team, and during the regular season he reflected 92.29% of shots. Amir Miftakhov is making a lot of mistakes this winter, although he still has very strong statistical indicators. The goalkeeper made 93.27% of his saves and scored four shutouts.
Disqualifications and injuries
Ilya Safonov, Egor Babenko and Mitch Miller will not be able to take part in the upcoming confrontation.
Interesting betting trends
- Ak Bars gets 7.05 minutes of penalty time per match
On average, Kazan players are eliminated about four times per game.
- According to statistics, Ak Bars makes 33 shots on target
Kazan are distinguished by their high throwing activity and try to threaten the opponent's goal from any position.
Lada Togliatti
Russian FederationCurrent form
Lada occupies the tenth place in the East and is unlikely to be able to rise above the ninth position, but it certainly will not fall below. Pavel Zubov's team earned 35 points in 56 starts and recently lost their real chances of making the playoffs, although they could well have played there. The Owls failed in the second half of January and lost 11 consecutive matches in regular time, which adversely affected the final position of the guests in the table. In mid-February, Dmitry Kugryshev's squad interrupted a series of setbacks with a victory in Astana (4:2), and then unexpectedly beat Salavat Yulaev at home (3:0). The current guest tour began with a crushing defeat in Chelyabinsk (1-4) from the local "bears".
The guests are playing poorly offensively at the current stage of the regular season. They scored more than twice per game in only three of the previous ten matches. Dmitry Kugryshev is still the club's top scorer and is not even among the hundred most productive hockey players in the league. The Lada forward scored 27 goals (11+16) and looks better than the other attackers of the hosts.
The first number of Lada remains Alexander Trushkov, who cannot make up for the departure of Vladislav Podyapolsky. This season, the 28-year-old goalkeeper has deflected only 91.28% of shots and made two shutouts in matches against Barys, and more recently he also dried up Salavat Yulaev. Konstantin Volkov, who recently transferred from Kunlun, is still polishing the bench and rarely gets a chance to prove himself.
Disqualifications and injuries
Evgeny Groshev, Egor Chernikov, Mikhail Fisenko, Pavel Koltygin and Vladislav Chervonenko will not be able to help their team in the game against Ak Bars.
Interesting betting trends
- Lada makes 27 shots on goal per game
The hosts don't throw much, trying to miss as little as possible, so they have a fairly modest performance on offense.
- Tolyatti players earn 7.71 minutes of penalty time on average per match
The "owls" are moving away a lot, but they neutralize 80.6% of the opponents' attempts to implement the excess.
Trends
Bet 1st period: total less than 1.5 pucks
In six of the nine matches involving Ak Bars, the first period was not productive.
1.80Bet period 3: Ak Bars will score
Kazan scored in the third period in 8 out of 11 games.
1.32Tip and bets
Ak Bars has finally broken its losing streak and should now feel more confident. Anvar Gatiyatullin's team has a very difficult trip ahead, before which it is impossible to lose points in a duel against an obvious outsider. This season, the Leopards have beaten the Owls three times in regular time and should show a good game with the support of their stands. Lada has already lost its tournament motivation and is just finishing the season. It is unlikely that the team from the Samara region will try very hard in the Republic of Tatarstan. We offer a bet on a confident Victoria of "cats".
Prediction - Ak Bars win with Asian handicap (-1.5) goals in 1.87
Betting on an individual total
The hosts have lost their status as the most reliable team in the conference and have been missing quite a lot lately. Now they need to get ready and prepare for the playoffs, where every mistake is very expensive. Lada is scoring only 2.23 goals per game this season, and we don't think the Tolyatti team will be able to score even twice in Kazan. Let's place a bet on the individual total number of guests.
We bet on an individual total of "Lada" less than 1.5 pucks with a coefficient of 2.12
Bet on the total total
The teams began the history of face-to-face meetings this season with an extremely productive duel in Tolyatti, but after it they had two rather private meetings. Ak Bars will try to make as few mistakes as possible, but right now the Cats' offense is not in the right shape to throw too much. We are not waiting for the brightest match and do not believe in more than four accurate shots from the opponents.
We take a total of less than 5.5 goals for 1.75
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