In a friendly match, Sochi will face off against CSKA. On whose side will luck turn out to be?
"Sochi"
Sochi will have to hold the first test match after the end of the previous season, which turned out to be, to put it mildly, not the best for the team. It did not work out to get into the playoffs, and this became known in advance, because at the end of the regular season, the Sochi club was located in the tenth position with 37 points. To understand how much there was a significant gap from the playoff zone, it is enough to note that Spartak, which finished in eighth place, had 63 points.
CSKA Moscow
Despite the fact that the Army team became the best at the end of the regular season, scoring 91 points, and even reached the playoff finals, losing 2-4 in the series to Avangard, there is nothing to rejoice about. And the thing is that CSKA considers the one in which they managed to take the Gagarin Cup to be a successful season, and if not, then the team does not care about any other achievements. The upcoming game will be the first friendly for the Moscow club, in which it will try to return to the winning path and cover three defeats in a row that happened in the playoff final.
Statistics and figures:
- Sochi has a 7-match losing streak;
- CSKA has lost in the last three games;
- CSKA won against Sochi in the previous 17 games.
Forecast
Despite the fact that the match is a friendly match, the Army team will still play only to win, so that the new season and its preparatory part can start with a positive result. I bet that CSKA will win with a handicap of -1.5.
