Severstal - Torpedo: betting tip (cf 1.70) and bets on the KHL match

Current form

A promising young team is having a bright season under the leadership of Andrey Kozyrev. The focus here is not so much on power actions as on a high-speed matching game. In terms of performance, the steelworkers are the second in the West after Dinamo Minsk. After the break for the All-Star Match, the team sagged a little, having suffered three defeats in a row – from Spartak (1:5), from SKA (1:3), from Dinamo Minsk (4:7) - but soon rehabilitated itself in the guest series, beating SKA (3:2, OT), Barys (3:2, FROM) and Metallurgist (4:3, FROM).

The game with the season's leader in Magnitogorsk on February 24 was dramatic. By the middle of the match, Cherepovets led 3-0 after shots from Danil Veryaev, Ilya Kvochko and Mikhail Ilyin, but they could not withstand the onslaught of the hosts, who, through the efforts of their snipers Sergei Tolchinsky, Nikita Mikhailis and Roman Kanzerov, equalized the score – 3:3 and seemed to seize the game initiative. However, the Cherepovets did not flinch, and a brilliant solo pass by defender Ioannis Kaldis ended with a goal against Ilya Nabokov two seconds before the end of overtime and brought victory to Severstal. After the game with Torpedo, the Northerners expect two consecutive matches at home and away against Lokomotiv, the outcome of which will have a serious impact on the distribution of places in the top 4 of the West before the start of the cup stage. 

Disqualifications and injuries

Nikolai Chebykin and Timofey Davydov will not be able to help their team in the upcoming meeting.

Interesting betting trends

• Severstal conducts an average of six power moves per match.
• According to statistics, Cherepovets make 30 shots on target.

Current form

The Nizhny Novgorod team has 74 points after 60 games and intends to retain its place in the top four teams of the Western Conference in the final matches of the regular season. It will not be easy to do this, bearing in mind the small gaps from the pursuers – CSKA, Dynamo Moscow, SKA, Spartak. Torpedo scored 9 points in 8 matches in February. Having won a hard-fought victory on February 21 over Ak Bars in a series of free throws (3:2, B), Torpedo lost at home to Dinamo Minsk (3:4) in the next game. Maxim Letunov opened the scoring in the first period, but four missed goals in the second period tipped the scales in favor of the guests (3:4).

The main attacking force of the Avtozavod team is the fast forwards Vasily Atanasov and Egor Vinogradov, who scored 20 goals each, as well as Sergey Goncharuk with 15 goals. Goalkeeper Denis Kostin is reliable at the last turn, having won 22 out of 37 matches with the team, five matches to zero, and an impenetrability coefficient of 2.06. According to the results of the matches played in January-February, the throwing efficiency index is 11.3.

Disqualifications and injuries

All the guest leaders will play in Cherepovets.

Interesting betting trends

• Torpedo conducts an average of 21 power moves per match.
• Nizhny Novgorod residents, according to statistics, win 49.9% of face-offs