Polar Bears - Steel Foxes: betting tip for the MHL match
Polar Bears will host Steel Foxes from Magnitogorsk in Chelyabinsk on March 19. The owners of the ice have recently slowed down, but the guests on the contrary. The Bears have suffered three defeats in five games, and the Foxes have won four victories in as many matches. Will Chelyabinsk residents be able to outplay their opponents and what bets can they win? The answer is in our betting tip

Command Analysis

Belye Medvedi

Current form
Last season, the club reached the semifinals of the Kharlamov Cup, but could not break the resistance of the winner of the 1946 SKA trophy. In the current regular season, Traktor's youth are playing well, but at this stage they have stopped fighting for the top three, where they are already 10 points behind the Mammoths of Ugra. Since the start of the championship, the team from Chelyabinsk has won 33 victories and lost only twice outside 60 minutes of the game. At this stage, the Polar Bears have 68 points to their credit, ahead of the catching Car by six points. In the last match against the youth of Salavat Yulaev, the club was defeated. Chelyabinsk very often lost the puck and created few scoring chances at the opponent's goal, the guests took advantage of the opponent's weak game. In general, the game was held under the control of Ufa residents and ended 2:5 in the end. The club scored 190 goals, which is the best record in the Eastern Conference Gold Division.
Interesting betting trends
- On average, the club concedes 2.3 goals per game.
- The team has been defeated by the opponent in the last four face-to-face games

Stalnye Lisy

Current form
Magnitogorsk Metallurg's youth team became the first Kharlamov Cup winner in the 2009/10 season and has never won the honorary trophy since. The Steel Foxes have good prerequisites to prove themselves in the Kharlamov Cup playoffs this season, and they look good in the final stretch and show excellent hockey. In the last calendar match, the team was able to cope with the Omsk Hawks on someone else's ice and won a much-needed victory. The squad played on equal terms with the opponent from the first minutes, followed the instructions of the coaching staff and eventually outplayed the opponent from Omsk (3:2 OT). At the same time, the young steelworkers retained their positions in the league. This victory was the 28th of the season for the Magnitogorsk team, with 147 goals scored. The game before, the club had lost to the same hawks with a minimum score of 0:1. Stanislav Shumik's team has 61 points and is in seventh place in the standings, one point behind the Car in front.
Interesting betting trends
- On average, the team scores three goals per game.
- The team has been defeated only twice in the past eight games.
Trends
Betting period 1: victory of the Steel Foxes
In 2 of the last 3 meetings, the hosts lost in the first period.
3.50Bet period 3: total more than 1.5 pucks
In the last three matches of the Chelyabinsk team, more than 1.5 goals were scored in the third period.
1.63Tip and bets
In this confrontation, we will give preference to the club from Magnitogorsk. The Polar Bears are holding a meeting in their arena and do not claim anything in the regular season and will not leave their fifth place, but the guests of Victoria need more in the dispute for the sixth place with Cars. The Steel Foxes will take to the ice motivated only to win and leave the Polar Bears out of business, as they did in the last three face-to-face games in a row.
Prediction – the victory of the Steel Foxes in the match with a coefficient of 2.40
Bet on the total
In this pair, a game is planned on opposite courses. The Steel Foxes will try to score quickly and control the course of the match, preventing the opponent from creating scoring chances. It is worth paying attention to the fact that in the last three face-to-face matches of the opponents, less than five goals were scored, and we believe that there will not be too many of them today.
The betting tip is a total of less than 5.5 goals with a coefficient of 1.72
Betting on an individual total
The Steel Foxes have no problems in attack, in the last four face-to-face matches the club scored 16 goals to its opponent. We can assume that the guests will score more than two goals.
Betting Tip - the individual total of the Steel Foxes is more than 2.5 goals in 2.15