Novosibirsk "Siberia" has not won in regular time at the "Tatneft-Arena" since March 2014. Will the wards of Pavel Zubov be able to interrupt the unsuccessful series?
2 October. 19:30. Hockey. KHL. Regular Championship. "Ak Bars" - "Siberia". Stadium "Tatneft-Arena". Live broadcast on Match TV channel.
Many experts admire the start of Ak Bars Kazan in the KHL regular season. However, if you look at the Bars calendar, you can understand that there is nothing supernatural in leadership in the East. The team of Zinetula Bilyaletdinov almost never played with the giants. The first really serious test for the Tatarstan hockey players was the away match against Metallurg MG.
In the match with Magnitogorsk, Kazan looked very solid, which is confirmed by an almost two-fold advantage in shots on target. Success in the confrontation with the vice-champion became the fourth for Ak Bars in five recent matches. Despite this, the club's management announced a new development strategy for the club. Under her, Rafik Yakubov was appointed to the post of general manager.
Considering this fact, Ak Bars will continue to strengthen the roster. It is possible that a new goalkeeper will be signed. Still, the club, claiming the title, can not count on two pupils of the local school at the last frontier. Yes, and off-season transfers are still fully justified. Kazanians look much better when selling too much, and the average performance has increased to 3.33 goals.
"Siberia" solves much more mundane tasks. Pavel Zubov's team is trying to break into the top eight in the East. The start of the season shows that it will not be easy for the Siberians to do this. Yes, Novosibirsk act selflessly, giving battle even to the giants. However, on one character to pass so long distance fail. Well, no one is going to look for reinforcements for the team, apparently.
The head-to-head statistics do not bode well for Sibir. In ten previous duels with the Bars, the team from Novosibirsk won only two victories. In Kazan, Siberians do not win in regular time for five meetings. Does not add optimism and the absence due to injuries of two attackers - Artyom Artyomov and Gleb Zyryanov. The status of a clear favorite for Ak Bars is quite fair.
Suggested line-ups:
"AK Bars": Goalkeeper: Emil Garipov
Defenders: Andrey Markov, Roman Abrosimov, Vasily Tokranov, Mikhail Sidorov, Albert Yarullin, Atte Ohtamaa, Rafael Batyrshin, Stepan Zakharchuk;
Forwards: Justin Azevedo, Dmitry Obukhov, Stanislav Galiev, Artem Lukoyanov, Fedor Malykhin, Andrey Popov, Anton Glinkin, Alexander Svitov, Vladimir Tkachev, Anton Lander, Maxim Lazarev, Jiri Sekach;
"Siberia": Goalkeeper: Alexander Salak
Defenders: Artyom Vladimirov, Ivan Vereshchagin, Vladislav Naumov, Maxim Ignatovich, Fedor Belyakov, Adam Polashek, Konstantin Alekseev, Nikolai Demidov;
Forwards: Patrick Zakrisson, Vladimir Pervushin, Sergey Konkov, Andrey Sigarev, Igor Levitsky, Sergey Barbashev, Dmitry Lukin, Stepan Sannikov, Alexei Sopin, Ilya Shipov, Ignat Zemchenko, Jonas Enlund, Alexander Bergström, Vyacheslav Osnovnin;
Conclusion:
"Ak Bars", of course, surpasses "Siberia" in terms of the level of individual skill of hockey players. However, the start of the season showed that the "leopards" periodically present surprises in confrontations with outsiders. That is why, instead of the outcome, it is better to refer to the total under 4.5. In eight of the nine previous duels, the teams played on the bottom. As a prediction for the Ak Bars - Sibir match, we recommend TM 4.5 in regular time. Bookmaker Leon evaluates this event with odds 1.70.
Novosibirsk "Siberia" is the only club in the league that has not yet won a single victory. Will Alexander Andrievsky's team be able to score their first points in the tenth match of the season? We think not.
Team Form
The Kazan club finally interrupted the series of matches, when victory alternated with defeat. In a five-match away tour, Zinetula Bilyaletdinov's wards scored points in each game: a loss from Avangard Omsk in shootouts - 1: 2, a strong-willed victory over Salavat Yulaev Ufa - 5: 4, a loss in shootouts from Barys - 3: 4 , after which "Ak Bars" scored two victories in a row over Nizhny Novgorod "Torpedo" and Nizhnekamsk "Neftekhimik" - 4:2 and 2:1, respectively. After not the best start to the season, when it was noticeable that the club from the capital of Tatarstan was in a bad physical condition, things are starting to improve noticeably for the team. On this moment The Kazan team is on the fifth line of the Eastern Conference standings.
In "Siberia" everything is hopelessly bad. Nine consecutive defeats at the start of the season already make the team's chances of reaching the playoffs minimal. While the general manager of the club, Kirill Fastovsky, is trying to explain why he was not pleased with the former Main coach Vladimir Yurzinov and the players that Sibir refused, the current actors continue to suffer one defeat after another. Three meetings were played under the leadership of Alexander Andrievsky: home against the Nizhny Novgorod "Torpedo" (2:3) and Omsk "Avangard" (1:3), as well as away against the Ufa "Salavat Yulaev" (1:3). No changes in the quality and results of the team can not be noticed. Ahead of the club from Novosibirsk is the exit along the route "Kazan - St. Petersburg - Minsk - Podolsk", where to earn the first points in standings will be extremely difficult.
History of personal meetings
As part of KHL teams spent among themselves 31 face-to-face meeting. In 20 matches, the Kazan team turned out to be stronger, and in 11 games, the victory went to the club from Novosibirsk. The puck difference is also on the side of the hosts of the upcoming meeting - 88:72. Last season, the rivals met twice: in Kazan, the players of Ak Bars were stronger - 3:2, and in Novosibirsk, the players of Siberia celebrated the victory - 4:1.
Bet Options
Sibir and Ak Bars rank third and fourth among all teams in the league in terms of penalties earned in the championship. The Novosibirsk club received 125 penalty minutes in nine matches (13:53 on average per game), while the Kazan team in the same nine matches only had seven penalty minutes less (13:06 on average per game). In addition, both head-to-head meetings between these teams last season were very rough: in the Novosibirsk game, the clubs earned 42 minutes, and even more in the Kazan match - 61 penalty minutes. Based on this, in the upcoming game it is reasonable to bet on the "top" of the penalty. BC "1xBet" offers to bet that there will be more than 16.5 minutes of penalty in the match with a coefficient of 1.85.
As for the winner of the match, the undisputed favorite is Ak Bars, which is gradually groping for its game, and the Novosibirsk club is in a severe crisis. If in home games "Siberia" is still trying to resist, then in five away meetings the minimum difference in the score was only starting game season with Severstal. In all other games, there were defeats by two goals or more. Based on this, good option is
On Monday, October 22 at 15:30 Moscow time, in Novosibirsk at ice arena"Siberia-Arena" Siberia will host Ak Bars in the next game of the Continental Hockey League.
The experts of BC "1xStavka" bet on the victory of guests from Kazan. The coefficient for the victory of Siberia is 3.68. The odds for a draw are 4.40. Bookmakers bet on the victory of Ak Bars - 1.80. Interesting and high odds for the total of the match, in the match of the outsider and the leader of the Eastern Conference, the bookmaker offers the following quotes: TB5 - 2.17, and TM5 washers - 1.66.
Siberia is gradually getting out of the hole it fell into at the start of the season. AT 6 recent games season Novosibirsk scored points in 5 fights, though they could only win in three meetings. In the last round, Siberia did not notice the Minsk Dynamo, having won a crushing victory 6:0. In that game, 11 hockey players from Siberia scored points at once, among them Bodrov 1 + 1 and Taylor who played to zero, reflecting 32 shots, should be singled out. After 20 matches, Oleksandr Andrievsky's wards have 10 points, with a goal difference of 37-63 and 12th position in the East table. Siberia averages 1.9 goals per game on offense and 3.1 per game on defense. In 8 games on home ice, the team from Novosibirsk scored 5 points, scoring 20 and conceding 21 goals. In the upcoming match, the owners of the ice due to damage will not be able to help Pervushin and Zyryanov.
Ak Bars won 4 wins in the last 5 matches of the season. Bilyaletdinov's wards turned out to be stronger than Severstal 2:0, Spartak 1:0, Sochi 5:1, and Salavat Yulaev 3:1. Kazan only lost to Jokerit 2:3. In the last round, Ak Bars defeated Salavat 3:1 in the Green Derby, best player in that match, Garipov became, reflecting 28 shots on target of his goal. Powerful game in recent meetings allowed Ak Bars to rise to the 3rd position in the East table with 28 points in the asset and a goal difference of 54-44, after 20 matches played. On average, Kazan players score 2.7 goals, missing 2.2 shots into their own net. Bilyaletdinov's team played 8 away matches, scoring 12 points, scoring 20 and conceding 16 goals. In the attack Ak Bars solo legionnaires, Swede Lander 6+10 and Czech Cleaver 7+10. For a series of 4 matches on the road, Bilyaletdinov is carrying 26 hockey players:
Goalkeepers: Emil Garipov, Artur Misbakhov, Vladislav Podyapolsky;
Defenders: Roman Abrosimov, Rafael Batyrshin, Nikita Lyamkin, Andrey Markov, Andrey Pedan, Paul Postma, Dmitry Yudin, Albert Yarullin;
Forwards: Justin Azevedo, Alexander Burmistrov, Stanislav Galiev, Mikhail Glukhov, Danis Zaripov, Vladislav Kara, Rob Klinkhammer, Anton Lander, Artyom Lukoyanov, Fedor Malykhin, Artyom Mikheev, Andrey Popov, Alexey Potapov, Jiri Sekach, Vladimir Tkachev.
Ak Bars beat Siberia this season on September 24 3:2 on home ice. In the upcoming match, Kazan, although they play away, have excellent chances of success, now they look stronger, more well-played and the owners of the ice are balanced.
