Lokomotiv - Severstal: betting tip (cf.1.80) and bets on the friendly match

After a great performance last season and a second championship, Lokomotiv retained the core of the team. However, there were still some losses. A significant change is the departure of defender Gernat, who finished the season with a score of +34 and also scored 31 points. It is impossible not to mention the players who joined in the person of Fiore and Kraskovsky.

There was no doubt that Yaroslavl would start their pre-season training with a victory. However, there were difficulties in the opening match with Torpedo. The team was far from the most optimal composition, which caused performance to suffer. Fiore made a huge contribution to the success, realizing the majority and equalizing the score. It came to a shootout, where they managed to snatch Victoria with a final score of 2:1.

Last season was one of the best in the club's history for Severstal. Indeed, few people could have expected that the residents of Cherepovets would be able to climb so high. According to the results of the regular season, they took the third place in the Western Conference table and, it would seem, reached a comfortable opponent in the playoffs. However, in the very first episode, huge problems arose with the Torpedo. The club was able to win only one victory over Nizhny Novgorod and lost with a final score of 1:4, which was a big surprise for all the fans.

Severstal's performance problems were observed throughout the season, and in the offseason, the club completely lost two attack leaders in the person of Ilyin and Aimurzin, who scored 87 points between them. They were replaced by Graf and Kizimov, and in the very first match of the preseason they justified the trust of the coaching staff. In the duel with Spartak, Graf scored a double, and Kizimov also scored a goal, but in the end it did not help to win. Due to frequent defensive failures and goalkeeper Korolyov's unsuccessful play, he had to be defeated (4:6).