Sochi - SKA: betting tip (cf 1.65) and bets on the KHL match

Current form

Sochi has risen to the penultimate place in the conference table and wants to gain a foothold in the tenth position in the West. Dmitry Mikhailov's team scored only 26 points in 36 starts and is unlikely to qualify for the playoffs this season. The Leopards are in good shape and have managed to win three out of seven meetings. In the last away series, Pavel Dedunov's team beat Barys (5:1) in Astana, but then failed to win in Nizhny Novgorod (1:4) and did not put the squeeze on the opponent in Cherepovets (3:4, OT).

Dmitry Kagarlitsky and Noel Hofenmaier twice led their team ahead during the first period of the meeting against Severstal, but the opponent constantly fought back. At the equator of the match, Max Ellis scored an important goal, but the Southerners failed to keep the desired result. Already in overtime, they conceded almost immediately and lost.

Daniil Seroukh ranks hundredth in the list of the league's top scorers. The forward scored 20 points (7+13) in the regular season.

Disqualifications and injuries

Danil Bashkirov, Dmitry Kagarlitsky, Daniil Seroukh and Igor Shvyrev will not play in the next match.

Interesting betting trends

• Sochi gets an average of 7.89 minutes of penalty time per game.
• According to statistics, Leopards win 47.4% of face-offs.

Current form

SKA remains on the sixth line in the West and is gradually approaching the leading group in its conference. The Army team scored 45 points in 37 starts and were in excellent shape by the beginning of winter. In the previous ten matches, the guests suffered only three defeats, with only one away. Igor Larionov's team won at home against the Shanghai Dragons (4:1) immediately after the break, and then took revenge on Ak Bars (3:2) for the defeat in Kazan at the end of November. At the start of the guest tour, Sergei Plotnikov's squad beat Dinamo Minsk (4:1) in the capital of Belarus.

Few people believed in the success of the guests in Minsk, but already in the sixth minute, Brendan Leipsic led his team ahead, and a few minutes later Mikhail Polyakov consolidated SKA's advantage in the score. Mikhail Vorobyov scored his goal in the second 20 minutes, and after the Minsk puck in the third period, he scored with an accurate shot at an empty net.

Marat Khairullin scored 29 points (9+20) in the goal+pass system this season and is the leader of the visitors' attack.

Disqualifications and injuries

Nikita Zaitsev, Matvey Korotky and Trevor Murphy will not be able to help their team in the upcoming meeting.

Interesting betting trends

• According to statistics, the army makes 30 shots on target
• SKA wins 47.2% of face-offs on average.