Russia – Kazakhstan: Maxim Lebedev’s prediction for the Channel One Cup match
Russia – Kazakhstan: Maxim Lebedev’s prediction for the Channel One Cup match
Hockey observer Maxim Lebedev gave the match of the First Channel Cup Russia – Kazakhstan.
Bet: victory for Russia and TB 5.5 for 2.12.
“You can, of course, talk about the fact that the Channel One Cup has now become completely uninteresting. And the Swiss stage of the Euro Hockey Tour, which is being played in parallel, you might think, is of interest to someone. Alas, there will be no return to the old life with the old tournaments in the usual formats. Yes, it’s unpleasant, but we didn’t start it. Therefore, they have what they have, but they have a match between the teams of Russia and Kazakhstan. A new era in world hockey that begins here and now.
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It is clear that the Russian team is head and shoulders above their rivals. Our team is from the “weight category”, which annually fought for medals in any tournaments in which they participated. Whereas the Kazakhstan national team at the World Cup has only one goal: to maintain a residence permit in the elite. And Kazakhstanis cope with this task every other time. Therefore, objectively, in the game of the Kazakhs there can be no chances in the match with the Russian team, with the exception of one thing: for them this will be the second and last match of the tournament. Only the first. And what is the first match of the national team in any tournament, we have long and well known. Sometimes, however, half of the matches in the search for participants with the involvement of partners. Only in this aspect, the Kazakhstan national team will have some advantage, and even then only in the initial stage of the match. And then we have to squeeze the Kazakhs and squeeze them, because we will be fresh and superiority cannot be put anywhere.
On this, in fact, with the lyrics, you can finish. The Kazakhs, of course, well done, have gathered today almost their strongest line-up. But after all, there is no one for us to especially protect at the home tournament. Whoever didn’t want to or who, for some reason, couldn’t, they didn’t drag anyone in the team by force. In fact, somewhere the second composition of the Russian national team from among the KHL players will play against the “one and a half” composition of the Kazakhstan national team.
Therefore, my forecast is unlikely to correspond to some kind of novelty. Taking into account the defense of Barys, among the players who occupy the links of the Kazakhstan national team, you can count on a decent number of goals. I think the total will be at least 5.5. In the end, the Russian team, of course, is obliged to win, and to do it in regular time and with the advantage of difficult goals and more. “Suddenly it will be incomprehensible, for all this garden they fenced and surround people from their clubs,” Lebedev said.
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