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Tolpar - Kuznetsk Bears: betting tip for the MHL play-in match
On March 25, at the Ufa Ice Palace, Tolpar will host the Kuznetsk Bears in the 1/16 finals of the Kharlamov Cup. The rivals showed brilliant hockey in the last face-to-face match and again intend to present the fans with a considerable number of abandoned pucks. Let's see how the opponents' coaching staffs prepared their players for the first battle in the series. Who will be the winner in the confrontation and what bets should I place? The answer is in our betting tip
Command Analysis
Tolpar
Russian FederationCurrent form
After an unsuccessful last season, Tolpar appointed Evgeny Yesaulov as head coach, who was supposed to return Ufa to the Golden Division. From October to December, Tolpar played a series of 16 matches with points scored, and in mid-November, Ufa rose to first place in the Silver Division and never dropped below it again. After the new year, the squad lost only three matches in regular time and deservedly became the winners of the Silver Division and secured a place in the Gold for the next season. It is worth noting that Tolpar took the second place in the MHL in terms of the number of goals scored (234), passing only SKA 1946 (240) ahead. But in terms of goals conceded, he was only fifth in his Silver Division (165). It's worth remembering that the Kuznetsk Bears knocked the Crowd out of the playoffs twice in the MHL. It happened in the semifinals of the first MHL championship in 2009 and two years later in the quarterfinals of the Eastern Conference. The current confrontation between the rivals will be the first since 2012 in head-to-head matches.
Interesting betting trends
- The team has been averaging 4.3 goals per game since the start of the season.
- In the last 10 games, the club has won seven victories.
Kuznetskie Medvedi
Russian FederationCurrent form
The Kuznetsk Bears started the last regular season under the leadership of Sergey Chubykin. At the start of the championship, the squad suffered five defeats in a row and, due to an unstable game, ended up in the basement of the Eastern Conference Gold Division standings. At the end of December, the management decided to change the head coach. At the moment when Fedor Polishchuk took the place of the steering team, the young forge occupied the last place in the division. After the new year, the club beat its direct competitor Siberian Snipers twice, then lost five matches in a row, but then the situation for the Kuznetsk Bears began to improve - ten wins with three defeats, which allowed the Novokuznetsk team to take eighth place in the standings and reach the play-in. As for personal matches with Tolpar, the rivals met twice in the regular season and exchanged away wins with the same score (4:3).
Interesting betting trends
- On average, the team scores 2.8 goals per game.
- In the last five face-to-face matches, the club has not scored less than two goals against the opponent.
Trends
Bet 1st period: total more than 1.5 pucks
In 3 of the last 5 meetings of the opponents, more than 1.5 goals were scored in the first period.
1.70Bet period 3: Tolpara wins
In 2 of the last 4 matches, the hosts won in the third period.
1.82Tip and bets
In this confrontation, the bookmakers make the hosts the favorites, and we fully agree with this. Tolpar has returned to Gold, is holding a meeting in his arena and intends to win the first victory in the play-in, having mastered all the shortcomings of the last full-time match. The Ufa team has worked on the mistakes, and we believe that they will take revenge on the opponent for the last defeat on their ice from the bears.
Prediction – Tolpara wins with a coefficient of 1.55
Bet on the total
In this match, the opponents will play openly from the first minutes and intend to once again throw a lot of pucks at each other. It is worth paying attention to the fact that in the last five face-to-face matches of the rivals in the MHL, more than five goals were scored, and we believe that in this confrontation the scoring extravaganza will take place.
The betting tip is a total of more than 5.5 goals with a coefficient of 1.62
Betting on an individual total
Tolpar has no problems attacking against the Kuznetsk Bears. The team has not scored less than three goals against the opponent in the last five matches in a row. We believe that the guests will be able to upset the goalkeeper of the Novokuznetsk team more than three times.
The betting tip is an individual total of more than 3.5 goals per 1.75
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