On Friday, September 28 at 19:00 Moscow time, in Nizhnekamsk on the ice of the Neftekhimik Arena, Neftekhimik will host Admiral in the next match of the Continental Hockey League.
The experts of BC "1xStavka" are betting on the home success of the team from Nizhnekamsk. The coefficient for the victory of Neftekhimik is - 1.69. For a draw in regular time, the quotes are 4.60. For Victoria Admiral, the coefficient is 4.52. The odds for the total of the match are interesting and high, in the confrontation between teams that score an average of 2 goals per match and concede more, the bookmaker offers the following quotes: TB5 - 1.92, and TM5 goals - 1.92.
Neftekhimik will play 4 games in a row on home ice, the first two "wolves" lost to Ak Bars 1:2 and Kunlun RS 0:2, but interrupted the losing streak with a victory over Amur 2:1. Andrey Nazarov's team played 10 league matches, scoring 10 points, with a 20-25 goal difference, and occupies the 8th position in the east. Attack averages are 2 goals per game, while defense averages 2.5 shots per game. At home, the "wolves" play poorly, in 6 matches only 2 wins, 4 points scored, with a goal difference of 6-13. Finns Puustinen 7+3 and Ruohoma 1+7 solo in the attack of Neftekhimik. In Nizhnekamsk, they understand that the team needs to be strengthened and they are doing it. Avtomobilist defender Nikolai Timashov moved to Neftekhimik. This season, Timashov played three matches in the regular season and scored one assist. The hockey player earned six penalty minutes with a utility indicator of "0". Timashov played for the club from Yekaterinburg from the 2015/16 season, before that he defended the colors of Metallurg Magnitogorsk. The defender went on the ice in 164 matches of the Continental Hockey League, scored 14 goals and gave 30 assists with 80 minutes of penalty time. His utility score is "-21". Plus, Ak Bars striker Pavel Padakin was exchanged for Neftekhimik. Players of the Nizhnekamsk club system - Reaktor forward Islam Khasanov and HC CSK VVS forward Razat Timirov went in the opposite direction. This season, the 24-year-old striker has not played a single match in the regular season. After the injury, Pavel got in shape in the VHL Bars team. For the Ak Bars farm club, Pavel played three matches and failed to score points. Last season was the best of Padaquin's career. Pavel played for Sochi and was one of the main leaders of the Black Sea team. He scored 31 (9+22) points in 53 games of the KHL regular season with a +21 utility indicator, becoming the Leopards' second scorer. In 5 playoff matches, he made 1 assist, earning a "-3" utility indicator. Also last season, Padakin received a call to the Continental Hockey League All-Star Game.
The admiral approaches the next exit with a series of 4 defeats: CSKA 3:4, Dinamo Riga 2:3, Slovan 4:5 and Torpedo 1:5. The defense of sailors does not stand up to scrutiny. After 10 matches of the season, Admiral has 6 points, with a goal difference of 21-33 and 12th place in the East table. The Marines average 2.1 goals on offense and 3.3 shots per match on defense. In 7 away matches, Admiral won 2 wins, earning 4 points, with a 12-21 goal difference. The leaders of the attacks of the guests are the Streltsovs Alexander 1+7 and Vasily 4+3. Defenders Yegor Antropov and Mikhail Patrikeev, as well as forwards Alexander Mereskin and Yegor Yakovlev, will not help the guests in the upcoming match, they are injured.
Last season, Neftekhimik won two labor victories over Admiral 3:2 and 2:1. This season, the "wolves" look more solid than the "sailors", plus they play in front of their stands, which means they should succeed.
Prediction for the match Neftekhimik – Admiral:
Neftekhimik win - P1 (odds 1.69)
It’s strange to see such odds at Neftekhimik, yes, the team didn’t play the last matches very confidently - losing to Kunlun and winning by one goal over Amur, but the composition of the Nizhnekamsk team is very good, and of course, the hosts are obliged to score easy two points in this meeting ...
Neftekhimik did not start the season well - in the first four matches they managed to win only once, which threw the Nizhnekamsk team into the basement of the standings, but then the team gradually began to gain momentum. In the match against the Chinese Kunlun, there were problems with conversion, and Neftekhimik created a lot of chances, well, it's understandable, the squad is very good. I am sure that in the match against Admiral there should be no problems for the hosts
Admiral
The admiral is fighting, we must pay tribute to the Far East, but there is little desire, this is the current KHL, no matter how the guests fight and give their best - to take even a point in Nizhnekamsk is an impossible task. Yes, and recently the Admiral has ceased to get the game ...
The “Sailors” looked good in the last match, well .. in the first two periods, and then the “Nizhny Novgorod nightmare” began. In the third period, Torpedo simply tore the Admiral into small pieces, scoring four unanswered goals in 20 minutes of playing time, and outplaying the “sailors” in all respects ... It’s very hard for the Far East players - it’s clear that they don’t have enough strength to fight throughout the match. I don't think that the players themselves hope for something in this match...
Forecast
Of course, now Neftekhimik is far from showing the best game, but it seems to me that even this is enough to defeat Admiral, who has already begun to crumble ... The victory of the Nizhnekamsk team for a very excellent coefficient!
In six home matches of the season, Neftekhimik won only two victories. Will Andrey Nazarov's wards be able to beat one of the main outsiders of the season? We think they have a good chance.
Team Form
Neftekhimik hasn't been impressive this season yet. This is especially true of home matches, in which the Nizhnekamsk club won only two victories in six meetings. In the only away series, Andrey Nazarov's wards won three wins in four matches: over Salavat Yulaev Ufa - 3:1, Sibir Novosibirsk - 4:3, and also over Barys Astana - 5:4. After this series, the team returned to the Neftekhim-Arena, where the results worsened again: defeats from Kazan's Ak Bars and Chinese Kunlun, as well as a forced victory over Khabarovsk's Amur. The performance of Nizhnekamsk players in the game on their court is especially upsetting: in six matches, the hockey players of the Tatar club scored only six goals. At the moment, "Neftekhimik" is located on the eighth line of the Eastern Conference, having ten points in its asset.
Before the start of the season, "Admiral" was called the main outsider of the championship. Since last season, the team from Vladivostok has had financial difficulties, so the line-up for the season is far from being the strongest. The results are almost in line with expectations: "Admiral" is located on the penultimate place of the conference, ahead only of the Novosibirsk "Siberia", which in this championship decided to break the record for the number of lost matches in a row. On account of Sergei Svetlov's wards, there are only two victories in ten meetings, but in every match the "seamen" resist, strive to show a good game and do not give up.
History of personal meetings
Within the framework of the KHL, the teams played 10 face-to-face meetings with each other, in which each of the clubs won five victories. The goal difference is on the side of the Nizhnekamsk team - 31:27. Last season, the rivals met twice, and both times Neftekhimik's players were stronger - 2:1 and 3:2.
Bet Options
The undisputed favorite of the meeting is the Nizhnekamsk club. Andrey Nazarov's wards have already managed to lose a lot of points that they were supposed to score, so in the confrontation with one of the weakest teams in the league, replenishing the piggy bank with two points is a must. You can bet on the victory of "Neftekhimik" with a handicap (-1.5) in the bookmaker "1xBet" with a coefficient of 2.17.
Andrey Nazarov is famous for the fact that all his teams play hard and aggressive hockey. Neftekhimik is no exception. In ten matches of the season, the Nizhnekamsk club made 180 power moves (18 on average per game). Translated into cultural language, the main rule of the mentor of Nizhnekamsk is as follows: if you can’t beat your opponent in class, you need to fight in every game episode. Given that the last matches for Neftekhimik are not going well, there will be a lot of struggle in the match with Admiral. In addition, the Admiral players themselves do not make so many hits: in ten meetings they have 134 power moves on their account (13.4 on average per game). As a result, in the upcoming match we can expect