Slovakia vs Finland: betting tip for the World Cup match

Current form

Slovakia is currently in the sixth position of the Group A standings and has scored a total of only seven points. Even before the start of the tournament, the national team did not have much chance of getting into the playoffs, since this year it has a rather weak squad and a priori cannot qualify for something serious. Let's remind that before that she suffered three defeats in four duels.

The Slovaks scored their only victories in matches against clear outsiders Slovenia (3:1) and France (2:1), but they also experienced a lot of difficulties in those matches. After a successful duel with the French, Vladimir Orsaga's squad suffered a crushing defeat from Canada (0:7), and then they could not cope with Latvia (1:5), although they were considered a slight favorite of that confrontation.

Recall that in the match with the Latvians, the Slovaks completely failed in the second half of the game, during which they missed three unanswered goals, after which they could not fully return to the game. In general, goals are given to the team in this tournament with great effort, and usually it remains in the asset with no more than two goals scored.

Disqualifications and injuries

Michal Ivan will not be able to participate in the match due to injury.

Interesting betting trends

• Slovakia wins 51.4% of face-offs
• According to statistics, Slovaks make 27 shots on target.

Current form

Finland is by no means represented in the best squad at this tournament, so it cannot be considered one of the clear favorites for the championship. Despite this, the national team looks more than decent, and at the moment it is on the third line of the standings and has 13 points in the asset. The team scored a good move during the championship and won three victories in a row.

She literally defeated Slovenia (9:1), after which, not without problems, but still dealt with Latvia (2:1), and in the final confrontation she completely beat Canada with a score of 2:1 in shootouts, being the outsider. In the last match, Juusa Saros had to work hard, who parried 37 shots in total. Then the Finns played, in general, their usual indoor hockey, in which they felt extremely comfortable, and therefore brought the matter to a victorious end.

However, Suomi has big performance problems and scores very little in return. So, for the entire tournament, the Finns scored only 18 goals, and this is considering that they scored as many as nine goals in the match against the Slovenes.

Disqualifications and injuries

Sund and Ruohomaa will not be able to help the team in the upcoming meeting.

Interesting betting trends

• According to statistics, Finland gets 6.67 minutes of penalty time.
• On average, the Finns make 30 shots on target.