Avtomobilist vs Severstal Cherepovec Prediction 22 February 2025
🔊 Will the winning streak of the Yekaterinburg team come to an end? Avtomobilist continues its victorious march. The home team has made only two missteps in the last month and confidently seized the second spot in the East. Severstal has been looking no less impressive lately. The club, historically not among the favorites in the West, is not only in the leading group but also contending for home-ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs.
Head-to-Head
In the current regular season, the opponents have met only once. In the last decade of December, the team from Cherepovets barely managed to secure a victory on their home ice (3:2). The game was extremely hard-fought, and in the third period, neither team managed to score. The most productive player of the encounter was Severstal forward Danil Aimurzin, who scored a brace. The player is still in excellent form and managed to achieve an assist hat-trick in the last match.
Head-to-head statistics Avtomobilist - Severstal Cherepovec
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg Team Overview
The team under Nikolai Zavarkhin has gained phenomenal momentum by the end of the regular season. In the last 15 matches, they lost only once in regular time, to Kazan's Ak Bars (1:4). In all other cases, the home side consistently earned points and achieved a total of 13 victories. Now the team is just two steps away from the top spot in the East, and there is a strong sense that they will conquer this milestone. The main weapon of the team is their excellent defensive play. Only Lokomotiv, the undisputed leader of the league, has conceded fewer goals (106) in the KHL than Yekaterinburg (133).
Match Results: Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
Severstal Cherepovec Team Overview
The team from Cherepovets continues to surprise. Rare setbacks do not throw the team off track, and they confidently move towards their goal. In the last 10 matches, Andrey Kozyrev's squad suffered only three defeats and ended up in fourth place in the West, surrounded by the conference's absolute favorites. The team has a good chance of starting the Gagarin Cup on their home ice, which would certainly become the main sensation of the playoffs. Moreover, the club is quite capable of making some noise in the spring; CSKA and Spartak have already fully felt their strength.
Match Results: Severstal Cherepovec
📌 Tentative Lineups
Avtomobilist: Alikin - Ebert, Zhuravlev - Macek, Da Costa, Golyashev
Severstal: Samoylov - Barberio, Burenov - Mukhanov, Abrosimov, Liska
🥅 Goalkeepers
Avtomobilist's goalkeeper Yevgeny Alikin returned to the ice after an injury and consistently maintained a 90% save rate in the three matches he played. Moreover, the goalie secured a "shutout" in the matchup against Sibir. There is reason to believe that the Russian will approach the decisive playoff matches in top form.
Severstal's goalkeeper Alexander Samoylov has been quite unimpressive lately. The goalie failed twice in the last three games and was even substituted in the match against Lokomotiv. The game against Barys was particularly successful for the Russian (92.6%), but the Kazakh club is too weak to draw far-reaching conclusions.
Editorial Prediction
Most of the recent matches involving the Yekaterinburg team have been quite high-scoring, and the team is clearly increasing its level of attacking efficiency ahead of decisive encounters. The visitors are not lagging behind in this aspect at all. The latest head-to-heads of the Cherepovets team consistently delight fans with a huge number of goals. We are convinced that the upcoming game will be no exception. Our key bet is on a total over 4.5 pucks.
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