Avangard vs SKA. Prediction and bet on the match of the regular KHL championship

The next game week of the KHL regular championship for Avangard hockey players opens with a home game against SKA. The meeting with the St. Petersburg team will take place on October 11 on the ice of the Omsk Arena G-Drive.

• Expert Predictions Analysis
• Game Totals Prediction

Our Expert Predictions & Analysis on Avangard vs SKA

Avangard

The problems of the Omsk club, which have haunted the team from the first days of the championship, have not gone away yet. The long-awaited return to action of Reed Boucher has not changed the situation radically; Avangard is among the three worst teams in the championship in terms of the number of goals scored. Just the other day, the Omsk club signed forward Nikolai Prokhorkin, which should add variability to the Omsk team's attack. Prokhorkin has already scored a goal in the match with Amur, which allowed Avangard to win the much-needed victory. This victory was only the eighth for Avangard this season, while there have already been 14 lost matches. It is not surprising that with 18 points scored, Avangard is only tenth in the East, four points behind the coveted eighth place.

SKA

The St. Petersburg club is also continuing its bad streak. Four defeats in a row, including from teams from the bottom of the standings, Kunlun and Sochi, can only be called a sensation. At the same time, even a series of unsuccessful matches did not particularly affect SKA's standing in the standings. The army men are currently third in the West, with 32 points. In the upcoming match, Evgeny Kuznetsov, the main star of the St. Petersburg club, should return to action. Kuznetsov missed the last home match of the army men against HC Sochi due to illness, which ended in a 2-5 defeat for the St. Petersburg team. At the moment, SKA only has defenseman Artem Zemchenok on the injured list, which is not a critical loss for the defense of the St. Petersburg club.

Game Totals Prediction

Avangard's main problem this season is their attack. The loss of Vladimir Tkachev was fatal, and Avangard's coaching staff has not yet been able to find an equivalent replacement for the injured forward. Avangard's average scoring rate this season barely exceeds two goals per game. In contrast, SKA from St. Petersburg is the most productive club in the League, but at the same time it concedes quite a lot. Now, after four defeats in a row, the army team's coaching staff will try to minimize the risk by playing in Omsk with an eye on defense. Too much is at stake, so we can expect cautious hockey from both teams. Our prediction is Total Under 5.5 with odds of 1.76, 1xbet. Download 1xbet to your phone and place a bet on the favorite!