10/30/2018 16:30 (MSK)

Russia. KHL
Barys Arena (Astana)

On October 30, at 16:30 Moscow time, within the framework of the KHL, Barys will host the Admiral on its ice. The meeting is scheduled in the city of Astana at the Barys Arena. Bookmakers give their preference to ice owners.

This season the Kazakhs show a very strong game and have every chance of getting into the playoffs of the Gagarin Cup. In the last campaign, the team performed unsuccessfully, eventually finishing in 10th place in the Eastern Conference.

In the current draw, the situation has changed in better side... Barys scored 30 points in 20 played rounds and is on the 5th line standings... The team is inferior only to the giants - Avtomobilist, Avangard and Ak Bars, and with Salavat Yulaev they have equal points.

Kazakhs play very entertaining and aggressive hockey. In 20 games, the team hammered 75 goals, this is one of the best indicators, only Avtomobilist has more - 79, which tops the table. The infirmary is empty, and all the leaders are ready for the upcoming meeting.

The Sailors are among the worst teams in the entire league. Admiral is the worst team of the current season, along with Siberia.
The team also had a bad last season, taking 11th place.

At the moment, "Admiral" in 23 played rounds scored 13 points and is located on the penultimate line of the Eastern Conference. At the start, the team failed in full, and only in the last rounds shows more or less good result... In the last 3 rounds, the "sailors" won two victories. Team Defense - vulnerability... In 20 games, "Admiral" conceded 77 goals, which is worst result among all representatives of the league.

V upcoming game due to disqualification, Zakharchuk will not take part, it is also possible to recover from injuries Sirotkin, Korolev and Patrikeyev.

Statistics and facts:

• The winning streak of "Barys" has 5 games;
• In the last 5 matches, "Admiral" won two victories;
• In the last 10 head-to-head matches, the hosts lost only three times.

Forecast

Both teams are in two opposite forms. "Admiral" - is an unconditional outsider, but the Kazakh club claims to the playoffs of the Gagarin Cup. Now Barys is in good shape and is the favorite in the upcoming meeting. We think that the Kazakhs will be able to win a landslide victory. Our prediction for the game is as follows:

Today in the framework of the KHL a number of matches will take place, and the game day will open the match between Barys and Admiral. In this game, the hosts are the favorites and there is no doubt about their victory, because we all know about what is happening in the Admiral and their problems. At least most people know and I have noticed this more than once. And today there is reason to believe that Barys will be able to win this match without problems and let's try to figure out why I made this choice of bet.

Barys typed good move and is in a great mood. And all because in the last 10 matches they lost only 2 times and then to very strong rivals in the person of CSKA 2-2 and defeat in overtime, as well as to Avangard 5-3. In the other 8 matches, they achieved victories, and only Traktor survived in regulation time and was defeated in additional time... They won 3 matches in a row at home and today they will strive to win the fourth game, because ahead of them is a confrontation with Traktor on November 1. In that game, it will be harder for them to win.

Roman Starchenko (Barys) scored more points in 20 matches than last season (10 goals, 14 assists)

Andrey Skabelka's team plays quite confidently and efficiently, and most importantly, they have recently improved their reliability at their gates. Indeed, in the last 8 matches, they missed a 0-1 puck 5 times, which probably began to delight their fans. After all, at the moment Barys Conceded 57 goals. And this is a lot for a team that claims to get into the playoffs. Only Torpedo has more among the teams from 1 to 9 places (13 in total) in the Eastern Conference. So this is undoubted progress and over the last 10 matches they have 24 conceded goals, and for comparison, in the first 10 rounds - 33.

So we can say that Barys gained speed and adjusted his game. On their ice, they have not yet lost in regulation time and in 10 matches they have 6 wins, and 4 games have moved into extra time, of which only 1 time they were able to emerge victorious. It is noteworthy that the last 5 matches won in regulation time at their stadium:

But if you look with whom the matches passed into extra time: CSKA, Ak Bars, Avangard, it becomes clear that Barys is really very good this season. Of course there was also a match with Neftekhimik, which ended 4-4 and lost after overtime.

On the other hand there will be Admiral, who suffered a financial collapse and was forced to dissolve all its leaders and collect essentially new team from mediocre players to cut costs. This could not but affect the results. For most of the Admiral's players, this is the biggest chance to get a chance to play in the KHL, and they showed their character as best they could. It is for this reason that the Admiral pulled out a number of matches in character, as was the case with Neftekhimik and CSKA - both matches ended 1-1 in regulation time. And they fought and if they lost, then with a minimal advantage.

Only recently, this factor has started to let the team down. Players lose confidence, physics sags. So they failed in a game with a mediocre opponent like Slovan Bratislava. In that game, Admiral was leading 2-0, then 3-1, but eventually lost 4-3. Of course, then Torpedo won, but the team from Nizhny Novgorod going through a restructuring and in that game failed, in fact, only a small segment for which she paid with 3 missed washers.

Admiral's defender Stepan Zakharchuk is disqualified

It should be noted that Admiral in the last match played at home against Ak Bars and lost 5-1. This game was on October 28th. And then they had to overcome half of the earth's hemisphere, namely, almost 7 thousand kilometers from Vladivostok to Astana. And therefore the physical state will not be the best. And here we smoothly come to the reason why I made such a choice.

Admiral he is much inferior to his rival in the class, but from the first minutes he always includes a tough fight and fights for every moment, for every puck on every area of ​​the ice. And gradually their forces begin to leave and traditionally the Admiral fails the last part of the game - the third period, and also sags closer to the middle of the second. Now the physics of the team leaves much to be desired and they have recently failed the 2nd period. Of course, the exception is the match with Torpedo, but that's another story. But Ak Bars won 1-0 in the first period, but lost 2-0 in the second. With Neftekhimik, only a miracle and incredible success of their goalkeeper made it possible to avoid conceded goals in the 2nd period, but in fact there should have been 3-4 goals. And this again after the Admiral was leading the score. Lokomotiv scored all of his 4 goals in the 2nd period, Dinamo Riga, as well as Neftekhimik, had to score in the 2nd period, but no luck.

Today I am waiting for a similar scenario because Barys he harnesses himself hard in the first period. They are often played in the first period and then added. For example, above the 5 last home matches of Barys and here are the results in the 1st and 2nd periods in brackets: Siberia (2-0, 2-2), Vityaz (1-1, 2-0), Dinamo Minsk (0-0, 2- 0), Dinamo Riga (1-0, 1-0), Slovan (1-0, 2-0). As you can see, in all games, except for Siberia, they added in the 2nd period. And I have no doubt that this game will be added exactly in the second twenty minutes.

The admiral, at the moment, is the most worst team continental league, having only 20 points, having lost 23 games out of 35. Over the last 10 games, only three ended in victory for this team, while gaining only 9 points out of 30 possible. Also, the hosts for already as many as 29 meetings do not leave the site without conceding goals, but throw 11 games in a row. As you can see, the Admiral is far from the most reliable defense, but the attack often pleases with abandoned washers. Outsiders really look very weak in all directions and even in terms of the tactical equipment of the coaching staff.

Barys

The Kazakh team looks much better in the championship, taking a position in the playoff zone. Barys has conceded 12 meetings in a row, while scoring 17 goals in the last 6 games. I personally remember this team, which is able to impose a fight on a favorite, primarily due to its attacking style of play, which hockey players do well. Such a team is unlikely to be able to win the Gagarin Cup, but to show a beautiful, and most importantly productive game.

Forecast

In personal meetings, these teams almost always score more than 4 goals, and only sometimes they fail to break through TB ​​4.5. Collectives experience differently last times... The admiral is clearly in a great decline, while Barys looks very strong, except for a misfire against the Motorist. In this meeting, I personally have little doubt that the teams will not be able to break through the total goals.

In the last six face-to-face meetings in Vladivostok, "Admiral" beat "Barys" five times. Will Astana residents be able to beat such an inconvenient opponent this time? We think so!

Betting and Predictions

At the moment, Barys continues to claim victory in Chernyshov's division. Lagging behind Avangard is three points, but Astana residents have three games in reserve. One of these games is against "Admiral", who is the main outsider of the Eastern Conference and is on the last line of the tournament table. Sergei Svetlov's charges no longer count on getting into the playoffs, 14 points behind the eighth place. In such a fight, gaining two points for Andrey Skabelka's team is a must. In the absence of legionnaires, the local players of the Kazakhstani club took the leading roles, who, by their own efforts, decided the fate of several meetings in their favor. The Kazakh team has historically played hard in Vladivostok, but now they have everything to win. You can place a bet on the victory of "Barys" in the bookmaker "1xStavka" for 1.80.

Admiral is one of the most correct clubs in the league. In 35 meetings, Sergei Svetlov's wards made only 430 power tricks (12.29 on average per game). Astana residents have significantly more hits - 499 power techniques in 34 fights (14.68 on average per game). The difference is small, but in favor of the guests of the upcoming confrontation. However, bookmakers see the Far Eastern team as favorites for this statistic. We will dare to disagree with them and