Sochi - Avangard: betting tip (cf 1.75) and bets on the KHL match

Current form

In 2026, the team's problems not only did not find a solution, but rather, on the contrary, worsened. In 24 matches played since the beginning of the year, the Southerners scored 38 goals, or 1.6 goals on average per game, and conceded 84, or an average of 3.5 goals. Defensive problems negate the efforts of the attackers, even in those few matches when attacking actions bring success. 13 matches on home ice brought the team only eight points, 11 matches on the road – six points. The results of the game are far from satisfactory by period: in the first periods, the difference between goals scored and missed was 8-21, in the second 18-31, and in the third 12-30.

Sochi lost the last five games in February, earning only one point for going into overtime with Lokomotiv (1:2, OT) and then losing to Avtomobilist (1:4) and twice at home to Dinamo Minsk (2:7 and 2:3). The first March game brought the Southerners a convincing victory over Torpedo (5:1), and in the next game on March 4 against Lokomotiv in Yaroslavl, the audience witnessed a kind of deja vu, watching Sochi forward Daniil Seroukh hit the gates of the Yaroslavl team with an accurate throw – exactly the same situation took place during the previous one. The meetings of these teams will be held in Sochi on February 14. However, the final score (2:3) recorded Sochi's fourth loss of the season to Lokomotiv. 

Disqualifications and injuries

Jean-Christophe Bodin, Denis Vengryzhanovsky, Cameron Lee and Ilya Nikolaev will miss the upcoming match due to injuries.

Interesting betting trends

• According to statistics, Sochi holds 24 power moves per match.
• Leopards win 48.3% of face-offs on average.

Current form

Guy Boucher's team enters the final phase of the regular season with 90 points in 62 games among the leaders of the Eastern Conference. Magnitogorsk Metallurg is seven points away, with six remaining matches it is hardly an insurmountable distance, but Avangard is quite capable of defending second place from Ak Bars. Having guaranteed themselves a place in the playoffs among the Gagarin Cup contenders, Omsk slightly slowed down the pace of scoring, and in the second half of February, victories over Siberia (2:1, B), over Metallurg (3:2, OT), over Spartak (4:1) began to alternate with defeats from Ak Bars (2:5), from Amur (3:4), from Motorist (1:5). 

The game on March 4 in Moscow against CSKA took place for two periods in a stubborn and equal struggle, which did not bring results, and in the third period the Avangard hockey players managed to tip the scales in their favor. Omsk's Canadian forward Michael MacLeod was rewarded for his active actions in the Muscovite zone and hit the goal twice, defended by Dmitry Gamzin, bringing his team two points, and goalkeeper Nikita Serebryakov the fourth zero game of the season.

Disqualifications and injuries

Alexander Volkov will not come with the team to Sochi.

Interesting betting trends

• Avangard makes an average of 34 shots on target per match.
• Omsk residents perform 23 power moves per game