At the end of 2023, the regular season of the Kontinental Hockey League will delight fans with another army derby. The Sport24 editors analyze the teams’ chances and offer a forecast with a high odds.
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When does the CSKA-SKA match start, where to watch it
Regular season match KHL CSKA – SKA will take place on Wednesday, December 27, in Moscow at the CSKA Arena. The start is scheduled for 19:30 Moscow time. The live broadcast will take place on the Match TV channel.
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Bookmakers’ odds for the match CSKA – SKA
Betsity analysts consider the Muscovites the favorites for the upcoming meeting. CSKA’s victory in the match is estimated by the coefficient 1.79 (53% probability). It is proposed to bet on the success of the St. Petersburg team with a possible overtime and a shootout series with a coefficient 2.03 (47% probability).
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The victory of the reigning champion within regular time is valued for 2.37 (40% probability), and the success of Roman Rotenberg’s team is for 2.75 (34% probability). Quotation 3.70 and 26% of the probability is allocated to a draw.
About five goals are expected in the match. The total is set at 4.5 goals with a coefficient 1.75 for more and 2.08 for less.
Before the match
While both army clubs started the season equally unevenly, SKA was able to recover by the beginning of November. A kind of starting point for the team from the banks of the Neva was a home game against Traktor – during the game, the St. Petersburg team twice lost their advantage in the score, but in the end they still put the squeeze on the Chelyabinsk team in a shootout. After that, they were unstoppable – the next time SKA lost in regular time was only on December 23 – an amazing series that returned Rotenberg’s team to the list of the main favorites of the season.
Yes, the cup prospects of the two-time Gagarin Cup winners are still viewed with skepticism by many. And the main reason here is not some gaming problems or, for example, an insufficiently strong roster. Experts and fans are wary of excessive expressiveness in the head coach’s decisions, which can be very costly in the playoffs. But over the long haul of the regular season, the methods of Rotenberg and his staff work, and this is not the first time the novice coach has proven this.
Sergei Fedorov, unlike his colleague from St. Petersburg, cannot pull off the trick of instantly transforming the team. As soon as CSKA plays a couple of decent matches and wins them, many people begin to think that they are now the best club KHL the last few years will definitely come to his senses and start winning consistently. But after a short period of success, a new failure invariably follows. It is clear that the Muscovites have long established themselves as a cup team and everyone expects the maximum from them in the spring, but there are more and more doubts that the pumpkin will turn into a carriage again.
Fedorov and his assistants probably expected to work effectively with the hockey players during the long pause associated with the KHL All-Star Game and the Channel One Cup. But after it, CSKA’s results became completely disastrous – 1:4 from Dynamo Moscow, 2:6 from SKA, 1:2 from Lokomotiv. It cannot be ruled out that the hockey players were overloaded and are now in far from ideal shape. But fans of the capital’s army team have only become more reasons for concern. There were rumors that the champion could pull off a couple of powerful transfers, considering forward Sasha Khmelevski and goalkeeper Alexander Samonov from Salavat Yulaev. But all this remained just talk. It looks like Fedorov will go for the third Gagarin Cup in a row with long-proven fighters.
Forecast for the match CSKA – SKA
No matter how unexpected it may sound, a game with an opponent of the level of SKA, and even with such a principled one, should be an excellent opportunity for CSKA to come to its senses. The Muscovites are definitely not used to losing so often, and then the unsuccessful series against the St. Petersburg team dragged on – this season they lost to them in three out of three matches. This time everything will definitely be fine with the hosts’ motivation, and they certainly haven’t forgotten how to switch on at the snap of a finger.
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Our forecast for the match CSKA – SKA: CSKA win in regular time for the odds 2.37.
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2023-12-25 22:11:00
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