In France, in Group B, the tournament will open with a confrontation between Finland and Belarus. Although it would be a stretch to call this match a confrontation.

Finland, largely thanks to our specialists, has achieved tremendous success at the international level over the past 20 years. A large number of local students play in the NHL. The national team competes for medals at almost every major world tournament. The 2017 World Cup was no exception. Once again, the Finns have assembled a combat-ready team that is capable of competing for medals, although in many ways the result will depend on the playing tone of the other favorites. We assume that Finland may stumble in the first round of the playoffs.

Belarus in last years has sharply given up and is mostly fighting for survival. Our neighbors achieved a good result last time, only Olympic Games 2002, since then, the team has slowly entered a crisis. Today Belarus cannot boast of world-class players; the coaching staff also raises questions.

Let us note that Finland won Belarus in the last 13 matches, this says a lot. We believe that today Belarus will lose again, and will do so with a big score, so the handicap is minus 2 for Finland.

Place a bet Finland - Belarus May 5

According to experts, the favorite in the Finland-Belarus match is the Finnish hockey team. The odds for Finland to win are 1.27, for a draw 6.90, and the odds for Belarus to win are 8.40. That is, if you bet 10,000 rubles on Finland’s victory, you can win 12,700 rubles if they win.

Our forecast for the match Finland - Belarus: Finland wins by two or more goals (handicap -1.5)- coefficient 1.70.

Place: AccorHotels Arena, Paris, France

Tournament: Ice Hockey World Championship. Group stage. Group B.

Analytics and review of the match Finland – Belarus

On Friday, May 5, as part of the group stage of the World Hockey Championship, a match will take place between the national teams of Finland and Belarus. Both teams are in Group B. The game will take place in Paris, at the AccorHotels sports arena. The match starts at 17:15 Moscow time.

Finns – silver medalist previous championship. During preparation for the current season, the team played six matches with their future rivals. According to the results of the Swedish and Czech games, Finland had three victories and three defeats.

The Belarusian national team did not advance beyond the group stage last season, losing five of seven matches. During preparation for the current season, the team participated in ten friendly matches, losing seven of them.

Forecast and bets on the match Finland – Belarus

The head coach of the Belarusian team publicly stated that the team is determined to fight for medals. The leading scorer of the national team, Andre Kostitsyn, does not agree with this statement. The Belarusians may win some individual matches, but it is unlikely that it will be a game with the Finns. The core of the team is 15 hockey players from Dynamo Minsk, Kostitsyn, Denisov, and Canadian Charles Lingle.

The Finns are also unlikely to count on the main prize of the world championship. For Lauri Marjamäki, this is the first championship of this level in her coaching career. The team's goalkeeper, Jonas Korpisalo, is not one of the top players, but he can spring surprises.

In general, the outcome of the match is predetermined. The Belarusians have little chance of winning, even though the Finns are not in their best shape.

The best bets for the match Finland - Belarus, in our opinion, will be a victory for Finland 1.30 and a total over 4.5 (TB 4.5) 1.74.

Finland – Belarus

World Cup 2017 05.05.17 17:15 Moscow time

Bet: Finnish victory

Finland – Belarus

World Cup 2017 05.05.17 17:15 Moscow time

Bet: total over 4.5 (TB 4.5)

Interesting facts before the match Finland – Belarus

• The teams held nine meetings during the various seasons of the World Cup. The Finns won seven times in regulation time and one in shootouts. Belarus won once, in May 2009, in shootouts.

Bookmaker odds for the match Finland – Belarus

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Announcement

The main hockey event of 2017 will be the world forum. Due to the absence of the Olympics and the World Cup (resumed) this season, this third most important hockey event becomes the first and most important. Naturally, this fact raises high expectations among fans. And forecasters are already rubbing their hands in anticipation of unpredictable matches, a month before the start.
As you know, matches of the next 81st world hockey forum will be held in two countries, and, accordingly, in two different cities. Cologne on May 5, 2017 at 17:15 Moscow time will host participants in the Sweden-Russia match, and at the same time the French capital will welcome hockey teams from Finland and Belarus. This time we decided to take a closer look at the second match, in which one of the favorites meets a “dark horse”.

History of team performances

We propose to evaluate the results of the meeting teams over the past decade.

There is also nothing encouraging in these statistics for the Belarusian team. Only 3 times did they advance from the group to the quarterfinals, but each time they stopped there.
As for their rivals, the Finns have never misfired in 10 years, they have always consistently reached the playoff stage, and won medals of various denominations 5 times. It is obvious that the squad, made up of the leaders of NHL teams, and in this particular in this match is the favorite.

Quotes

Bookmakers are very cautious about the Belarusian team's chances of winning the tournament. For example, BC "1xBet" offers a coefficient of 101.0 for the triumph of the Belarusians. This is the same amount as the other two teams capable of causing a sensation - France and Norway. There are 9 countries higher, so the Belarusians’ chances of reaching the quarterfinals are not that great.
Fortunately for the Slavic squad, they will not have to fight the Germans in their group “B”. It is unlikely that Germany, as one of the organizing countries, will not reach the quarterfinals, therefore, speaking objectively, in the group. “A” all aisle places are already “booked”. But in the parallel, “Paris” group, where the Belarusians compete, their main rivals are the Norwegians, the French and the Swiss. Also, of course, not gifts, but chances appear.
As for the Finns, bookmakers place them in 4th place in terms of likelihood of winning the championship title. The quote in “1xBet” for this event is 7.2. Perhaps this team is capable of providing real competition to the two hegemons - Russia and Canada.
In a personal meeting, bookmakers see clear favorite team from the country of Suomi.

Bookmaker Finland Draw Belarus

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Forecast

The expectations of fans of the Belarusian team are still based on memories of the triumphant 2002 Olympics, when the team managed to defeat the Swedes in the quarterfinals. However, 15 years have passed since then, and the Slavic squad has not been able to achieve repeated success. And this is not surprising, considering that naturalized North Americans began to play for the majority of “dwarf” European hockey states. The Belarusians represented the Dynamo (Mn) club as they were, and that is how they remained.
As a result, last year the Belarusian team ended up in sixth place in the group, and in total they only managed to achieve 12th position in the tournament. Such a failure is not surprising, but rather natural, so it would be naive to expect a qualitative leap at the upcoming championship.
And although the Belarusians now occupy a relatively high ninth place in the IIHF rankings, they have no chance against the Finns. And we can hardly expect a repeat of the success of 2014 and 2015, when the team took an honorable 7th place.
Our experts are confident that the Suomi team will win a convincing victory and recommend taking a two and a half goal handicap on it. Odds 2.08, offered by bookmaker “1xBet” on F1 (-2.5) , looks very attractive.

On May 5, 2017 at 17:15 (Moscow time) in Paris, France, on the AccorHotels Arena ice rink, the first match of the group stage of the World Hockey Championship will be played, in which the Finnish national team will play against a team from Belarus.

The Finns are one of the main favorites in Group B along with Canada. From here it is clear that the squad will qualify for further participation in the tournament and will try to complete group stage as high as possible, because in this case in the quarterfinals they will get a weaker opponent. Accordingly, they must confidently outplay weaker teams here and consistently gain points so as not to lose to their main competitors in advance. Moreover, now the white-blues are not showing very stable performance and may misfire.

The Belarusians are not among the favorites, but they can probably compete for at least fourth place. Most likely, they will try to solve this problem in games with those teams that are more equal to them in class. However, this does not mean that the team will not impose a fight on its upcoming opponent. The team doesn’t look the strongest right now, but it can perform well, just remember their home World Cup.

Finland - Belarus meeting forecast

The Belarusians have never managed to beat the Finnish team. The results of their last five head-to-head meetings look like this: 05/06/16 Finland – Belarus 6:2 05/11/15 Finland – Belarus 3:2 (after shootouts) 05/15/14 Finland – Belarus 2:0 05/04/12 Belarus – Finland 0:1 04/21/12 Finland – Belarus 2:1 (after shootouts) Bookmakers are confident that this confrontation will lead to another victory for the Finnish team. They gave the following assessment to the three main outcomes of the confrontation: W1 - 1.27 in BC Paris-Match; X - 7.50 in BC 1xstavka; P2 - 9.70 in BC Marathon.

In our opinion, this match, like most of their previous head-to-head meetings, will not be the most meaningful in terms of goals scored. We believe that the Finnish team is not at its peak now, and the Belarusian athletes will try to force competition on them. It follows that the game will be approximately equal, but with some advantage for the Scandinavian team.

Forecast from the site site – “total under (5.5)” with odds of 1.74 in bookmaker 1xBet.

Quotes for betting on the match Finland - Belarus

	1.27	6.90	8.40
	1.26	7.50	9.40
	1.25	7.50	9.70
	1.21	6.57	8.21