National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's FC Ostrovets or Baranovichi that keep their silverware dream alive.
The hosts FC Ostrovets saw competitive action as recent as three days ago, playing in the Second Division. That game was an away game at Oshmyany, so at least FC Ostrovets are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
4-3-10 (wins/draws/losses). These are the numbers for Baranovichi when playing away games on artifical turf, which is not the surface they have on their own home stadium (which has grass). Their goal statistics from those 17 matches are 30-46 (scored/conceded).
FC Ostrovets form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Belarusian Cup for FC Ostrovets, as the manager S. Krot led his troops to eliminate HCS-Olympia and Slonim City, and reach the 2nd Round. Last season their Belarusian Cup adventure ended in the 16th finals.Ostrovets haven’t lost a league-game in ten attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus DYuSSh-3 Pinsk, 273 days ago.
A good away victory last time out for FC Ostrovets, who won 9-2 against Oshmyany. As indicated by the result mentioned above, FC Ostrovets played a great game against Oshmyany and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.
A strong away win before that one, visiting HCS-Olympia and winning 2-0.Baranovichi form and stats
Last season their Belarusian Cup adventure ended in the 16th finals.There's been little loot from Baranovichi's travels as they have only collected 1 point from 7 away games in the First Division. Baranovichi only have 0 wins to counter their 6 defeats and 1 draw. Baranovichi are desperate to end a ten-game winless run, as they haven't won a game since the Osipovichy fixture.
It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Gomelzheldortrans in their previous outing. The First Division match ended in a draw 1-1.
Preceding that game, the 1-2 loss visiting Shakhtyor Petrikov's place.Many goals are not expected from the visiting Baranovichi as they have only managed to score 5 times from 7 away games in the league. Baranovichi have conceded 17 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
As for the last two games between these two teams, there's one Ostrovets victory, zero draws and one Baranovichi win. Over/under statistics; one of these games ended with three goals or more, one match with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Artykh 3 goals |   G. Zakharen 2 goals | S. Krot 2 goals |
FC Ostrovets missing players
Baranovichi missing players
| FC Ostrovets | Baranovichi | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 20 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 6 | Won | W | 7 | 8 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Lost | L | 11 | 13 | ||
| 81 | 35 | Scored | S | 36 | 46 | ||
| 34 | 15 | Conceded | C | 44 | 59 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 90% | 92% | ||
| 80% | 92% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 70% | 72% | ||
| 52% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 55% | 60% | ||
| 40% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 40% | 44% | ||
| 40% | 42% | BTTS | BTTS | 60% | 64% | ||
| 40% | 42% | Clean Sheets | C S | 5% | 4% | ||
| 20% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 35% | 32% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2.1 | 3.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 2.1 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 6.8 | 9.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.7 | 8.6 | ||
| 3 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.6 | 3.4 | ||
| 54% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 35% | 40% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Krumkachy | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 17 |
| 2 | Arsenal | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 16 |
| 3 | Volna | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 13 |
| 4 | Shakhtyor Petrikov | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | Gomelzheldortrans | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | Dnepr Mogilev | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
| 7 | Belshina | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| 8 | Lida | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | -7 | 7 |
| 9 | Slonim | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -5 | 5 |
| 10 | Naftan | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -6 | 5 |
| 11 | Orsha | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -6 | 5 |
| 12 | Baranovichi | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 17 | -12 | 1 |