National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Naftan or Minsk that keep their silverware dream alive.
3-2-10 (wins/draws/losses). These are the numbers for Minsk when playing away games on grass, which is not the surface they have on their own home stadium (which has artifical turf). Their goal statistics from those 15 matches are 19-35 (scored/conceded).
The visiting Minsk played their last game only four days ago, a Vysshaya Liga match. That game, against Slavia, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Minsk.
Naftan form and stats
Naftan was eliminated in the 16th finals last season in the Belarusian Cup.3-1-0 (win-draw-lost) are the First Division numbers at home for Naftan so far this season.
It's back home for Naftan, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Molodechno-DYuSSh 4 away with the result 5-3. Kozlov (2), Galuza, Kats and Suchkov found the net in that victory. A goal frenzy last time out for Naftan, with a total of 8 goals in the match against Molodechno-DYuSSh 4. Fun stuff to watch!
Previous to that game, a First Division home match hosting FC Ostrovets in a game that was won 3-0.Naftan can score goals in their home matches. After 4 league matches they have found the net 10 times. Naftan have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 1 goal.
Minsk form and stats
Last season their Belarusian Cup adventure ended in the 16th finals.1-1-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Minsk in their Vysshaya Liga matches away.
Minsk lost away at Slavia (2-4) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. As you can tell from the result, the match against Slavia was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today?
That result followed a home victory 2-0 versus Arsenal in the Vysshaya Liga.After this away game Minsk return home for a Vysshaya Liga game against Belshina. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Minsk have scored 7 goals in 5 league games away. Minsk have conceded 11 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Last ten meetings involving these squads: Naftan won two, Minsk triumphed in five and we saw three draws. four games with over 2,5 goals, six matches with less than 2,5 goals.Top Goalscorers
  Y. Kozlov 6 goals | A. Suchkov 5 goals |   V. Khvashchinskiy 5 goals |
Naftan missing players
Minsk missing players
| Naftan | Minsk | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 7 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 5 | Won | W | 1 | 12 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 4 | 7 | ||
| 46 | 20 | Scored | S | 8 | 38 | ||
| 29 | 10 | Conceded | C | 13 | 30 | ||
| 88% | 91% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 88% | ||
| 80% | 82% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 86% | 68% | ||
| 56% | 45% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 29% | 36% | ||
| 36% | 27% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 29% | 32% | ||
| 20% | 18% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 29% | 24% | ||
| 44% | 45% | BTTS | BTTS | 57% | 36% | ||
| 36% | 36% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 40% | ||
| 32% | 27% | Failed to Score | F T | 43% | 36% | ||
| 4.6 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 6.3 | ||
| 6.2 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.7 | 4.8 | ||
| 1.6 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 0.8 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 10.4 | 10.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 3 | 7.4 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.7 | 3.6 | ||
| 31% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 60% | 30% | ||
| 7.3 | 6.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.3 | 8.3 | ||
| 3.2 | 2.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.2 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Shakhtyor Petrikov | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 31 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 3 | 22 | 19 |
| 2 | Naftan | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 17 | 19 |
| 3 | FC Ostrovets | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 17 |
| 4 | Volna | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 15 |
| 5 | MKK-Dnepr | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | -1 | 14 |
| 6 | Gomelzheldortrans | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 13 |
| 7 | Smorgon | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | -1 | 13 |
| 8 | Baranovichi | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -3 | 11 |
| 9 | Orsha | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -9 | 9 |
| 10 | Molodechno-DYuSSh 4 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 9 | -7 | 7 |
| 11 | Lida | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | -8 | 6 |
| 12 | Osipovichy | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 12 | -15 | 2 |
| 13 | Slonim | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | -19 | 2 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Ynergetyk-BDU | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 16 | 25 |
| 2 | BATE | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 14 | 23 |
| 3 | Dinamo Minsk | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 22 |
| 4 | Shakhtyor | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 21 |
| 5 | Minsk | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 19 |
| 6 | Isloch | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 18 |
| 7 | Neman Grodno | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 17 |
| 8 | Slavia | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 17 |
| 9 | Slutsk | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 15 |
| 10 | Gomel | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 14 |
| 11 | Belshina | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 4 | -4 | 11 |
| 12 | Torpedo BelAZ | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -5 | 11 |
| 13 | Vitebsk | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | -9 | 7 |
| 14 | Dnepr Mogilev | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 23 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 14 | -14 | 5 |
| 15 | Arsenal | 11 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | -11 | 4 |
| 16 | Dinamo Brest | 11 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 19 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 10 | -12 | 4 |
