Ak Bars - Avtomobilist: betting tip and bets for the KHL match

Current form

Ak Bars could have reached the playoffs from the first place in the conference and was very good at the start of the new calendar year. Closer to the end of the regular season, the hosts seriously slowed down in terms of results and dropped to fifth place in the East, while they could be even lower. Kazan were quite good defensively throughout the season and conceded only 2.38 goals on average. They did not always have enough sharpness in attack, although the team's top scorer Artem Galimov made 59 effective actions (35+24).

The cats arrived in Yekaterinburg with a fighting spirit and immediately got down to business. They quickly took the lead and secured a comfortable advantage by the second break and played calmly from their own goal. A day later, the team from the Republic of Tatarstan was already losing by three goals by the beginning of the second period and, despite all attempts, could not win back.

Disqualifications and injuries

Egor Babenko and Nikita Evseev will not play against the drivers.

Interesting betting trends

• On average, Ak Bars concedes 2.50 goals per match.
• On average, Kazan players make 30 shots per match.

Current form

The motorist started the season very briskly and was in the lead in the East for a long time. Then the guests had a long decline and they fell back to the second line, and after a while they left the top three in the conference altogether. Nikolay Zavarukhin's players often lacked quality in attack, because the drivers differed only 2.62 times per match on average. Vladislav Galkin and Evgeny Alikin often helped out their partners, so the red light outside the gates of the Urals was lit only 2.43 times per match. Anatoly Golyshev's squad finished in fourth place in the conference, retaining the right to start the playoffs at home.

Auto went to the home matches against Ak Bars in a great mood to win, but could not take advantage of his chances and missed several goals in the first 40 minutes of the match. The Uralians were still unable to catch up with their opponent, but they made a great start the day before, crushing the cats by the beginning of the second leg of the meeting. Evgeny Alikin conceded six goals in two games, but he remains the main goalkeeper of Yekaterinburg for now.

Disqualifications and injuries

Curtis Volk will not come with the team to Kazan.

Interesting betting trends

• A motorist on average concedes 2.50 goals per match.
• On average, drivers receive a ten-minute penalty per match.