Announcement of the match of the fifth round of the World Hockey Championship in Division IB Lithuania – Ukraine, broadcast of the match, team chances and bookmaker estimates
May 3 in Vilnius at the Twinsbet Arena in fifth round of the Ice Hockey World Championship in Division IB The Ukrainian national team will play with the Lithuanian national team. The winner of the match will receive a ticket to Division IA, where The blue-yellows haven’t played for seven years. And today the Ukrainian national team has an excellent chance to take another step closer to the elite of world hockey.
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The Lithuania – Ukraine match is the main one of the tournament. Both teams have won four previous matches and will now determine the winner of the Division in a head-to-head confrontation. Ukraine is ahead of Lithuania in additional indicators: 27 goals scored against 15. At the same time, the blue-yellows conceded 1 goal in four previous matches, the Lithuanians – three. However, on Friday night these alignments will not matter: this is exactly the case when the winner takes all.
The Ukrainian national team last played in Division IA in 2017. Then the tournament was hosted by Kyiv, and the blue-yellows lost all five matches – Hungary, Poland, Kazakhstan, Korea and Austria, dropping in class. Then there were fourth and fifth places in 2018 and 2019, a two-year break “for Covid”, third and second positions at tournaments in 2022 and 2023.
The Lithuanian national team played the last three tournaments in Division IA, but was relegated last year without scoring a single point in matches against Romania, Korea, Italy, Poland and Great Britain.
Lithuania is the team with the highest position in the International Hockey Federation ranking – 24th place. Ukraine ranks 27th. The team has quality foreign players, as well as the youngest player in the tournament – 17-year-old Simonas Valivonis from Liepaja.
Lithuania and Ukraine met each other in a test match before the World Cup. The blue-and-yellows won a difficult victory – 5:2. And in general, Ukraine has a positive balance of matches with Lithuania – only three defeats in 12 matches.
According to bookmaker experts, Ukraine is the favorite in the match with Lithuania. Chances of the Ukrainian team to win in the match are estimated as 1×1.16. Probability of winning Lithuania – 1х5.1 Chance of victory of the blue-yellows in regular time – 1×1.31. The probability that Lithuania will beat Ukraine without overtime – 1×7.25.
Ukraine
Ice Hockey World Championship. Division IB
05/03/2024
19:30
Lithuania
At the World Championships in Vilnius, in each of the four matches played, Ukraine scored four goals or more. In 12 previous meetings with Lithuania, the blue-yellows scored 58 goals, an average of 4.8 per game. The probability that “the total in the match Lithuania – Ukraine will be more than 4.5” is 1×1.28. And the chance that “Ukraine’s individual total will be more than 4.5” – 1×2.05.
The match of the fifth round of the group stage of the Ice Hockey World Championship Lithuania – Ukraine can be viewed live online video broadcast on the Setanta Sports platform. Our team’s matches will be freely available to viewers on the Setanta Sports YouTube channel.
Setanta is the only platform where you can watch online video broadcast of the match of the fifth round of the group stage of the Lithuania – Ukraine Ice Hockey World Championship.
Source: Sportarena
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