Avtomobilist - Metallurgist Magnitogorsk. Betting Tip (cf. 1.80) and bets on the KHL match

Current form

Avtomobilist settled into the fourth position in the East and joined the fight for a place in the top three in the conference. The machinists broke away from their pursuers and got close to Ak Bars and Avangard. Nikolay Zavarukhin's team has 35 points in their piggy bank after 29 starts and is only one point behind Kazan. The hosts had a bad start to the month, when the Urals lost four meetings in a row. In the last away series, they lost to Barys (2:3, OT), Amur (0:3) and Admiral (2:4), but then they celebrated success in Chelyabinsk (5:1). After returning home, Anatoly Golyshev's squad won a major victory over direct competitors from Nizhnekamsk (6:3).

After the first period of the game against Neftekhimik, the score was equal, but the club from Yekaterinburg managed to add in the second 20 minutes. Maxim Denezhkin scored two accurate shots, which greatly helped his partners to score two points. By the equator of the match, the hosts were leading by four goals and bringing the match to the desired result was not the most difficult task.

Jesse Blacker remains the Ural team's best offensive player. The striker from Kazakhstan scored 20 goals (6+14) in the goal+pass system.

Disqualifications and injuries

Sergey Zborovsky, Semyon Kizimov and Nikita Tryamkin will not help their teammates in the next match.

Interesting betting trends

• A motorist makes 28 shots per match on average.
• Machinists win only 46.5% of face-offs this season.

Current form

Metallurg continues to dominate in the East and does not intend to stop. The team led by Andrey Razin scored 44 points in 28 matches and is already seven points ahead of the closest pursuer in the conference in the person of Avangard. The Magnitogorsk club is doing well ahead and was the first to score 100 goals in the current regular season. The Foxes are in great shape now, and the visitors have lost only one game since the beginning of November. After the home victory over Lada (6-4), the Steelworkers went on a guest tour and were unable to return to the game against SKA (3:4) in St. Petersburg. A day later, Alexey Maklyukov's squad won the derby against Traktor (4:3), which could be the start for a new protracted winning streak.

Roman Iskhakov and Roman Kanzerov scored important goals in the first period of the game against the Bears, and Alexander Siryatsky increased Metallurg's lead over the opponent. After Valery Orekhov's goal in the third 20 minutes, the foxes relaxed somewhat and gave more free space to the Tractor, which scored two accurate shots, but could not even the score.

Vladimir Tkachev (7+29) and Roman Kanzerov (18+13) lead the list of the league's top scorers. The former is the best assistant in the league, and the latter hits the net more often than others.

Disqualifications and injuries

Andrey Kozlov did not go with the team to Yekaterinburg.

Interesting betting trends

• Magnitogorsk players block 12 shots at their own goal per game
• Metallurg performs 10 power moves per match on average