Sweden vs Latvia. Prediction and Betting Tips for Olympic Games Beijing 2022 (February 10, 2022).

Sweden

Olympic Games Preliminary Round Grp. C

9 February 20:10

Finished3 : 2

Latvia

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Sweden and Latvia face off in the men's tournament in ice hockey at the 2022 Winter Olympics. We assessed the teams' chances and made a prediction for this match.

Command Analysis

Sweden

Sweden got in a difficult group: aside from Latvia, their opponents are Finland and Slovakia. Tre Kronor don't have a very powerful team, and their results in recent years are unimpressive: Sweden gave a poor performance at the 2018 Winter Olympics and won only 1 out of 3 games at the 2021 Channel One Cup. In December in Moscow, the Yellow-and-Blues lost to Russia (0:1) and Canada (1:3), but celebrated success over the Czech Republic (3:2).

Note that all three goaltenders (Reideborn, Hellberg, Johansson) play in the Kontinental Hockey League.

Latvia

Latvia rarely achieve excellent results at big tournaments like the WInter Olympics or World Championships. Their best result at the Olympic Games in 8th place in 2014. The Latvian national team has many Dinamo Riga players, and some men were invited from different European leagues.

The chances of Latvia to qualify for the playoffs are slim. In their last two games back in December, the Latvians lost to Slovakia (2:6) and Switzerland (1:2).

Tip and bets

TipHandicap (-1.5) to Sweden

1.77

Sweden are a better team on paper, and Latvia haven't been able to beat the Yellow-and-Blues in a long time. We think that Sweden will get the upper hand here.

Our prediction - Asian handicap (-1.5) to Sweden

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TipTotal under 5.5

1.68

Sweden play a very pragmatic brand of hockey: they concentrate on their defenses and score few goals. We suggest playing the total under.

Second bet - total under 5.5 goals

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