Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Shakhtyor & Dinamo Brest face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Belarusian Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
Shakhtyor's stadium, Stadyen Budaŭnik, has a grass surface. Dinamo Brest have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Dinamo Brest when playing on grass; 3 wins, 4 draws and 11 losses from 18 matches. They have scored {15 goals} in these games and conceded 32.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Shakhtyor form and stats
Last season, Shakhtyor's Belarusian Cup journey ended in the quarter-finals.6-1-0 is the performance here at Stadyen Budaŭnik so far in the Vysshaya Liga, giving Shakhtyor a total of 19 from their 7 games here. Outstanding results!
Shakhtyor are returning here after visiting Ivatsevichi in a Belarusian Cup match and winning with a 6-1 scoreline.
Ahead of that match, Shakhtyor won a home game hosting Slutsk (1-0).Shakhtyor can score goals in their home matches. After 7 league matches they have found the net 17 times. From these home matches, Shakhtyor have conceded only 5 goals.
Dinamo Brest form and stats
Dinamo Brest's mission in Belarusian Cup last season failed in the round of 16.The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Dinamo Brest so far with only 3 points returning home. The records show 1-0-6 (win-draw-lose).
Two away matches in a row for Dinamo, whose boss Yurevich could celebrate last time after the Belarusian Cup win against Bumprom.
A 0-1 defeat away at Belshina before that.The attacking power of Dinamo Brest when travelling is not overwhelming with 4 goals scored from 7 league matches away. Dinamo's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 13 goals from these trips.
Head 2 Head
Shakhtyor have managed a sequence of 8 consecutive matches without losing (6-2-0) when facing Dinamo Brest.Top Goalscorers
  M. Skavysh 4 goals |   M. Gordeychuk 4 goals |  V. Ahmedi 2 goals |
Shakhtyor missing players
Dinamo Brest missing players
| Shakhtyor | Dinamo Brest | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 16 | 9 | Won | W | 2 | 5 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 7 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 9 | 13 | ||
| 46 | 25 | Scored | S | 10 | 28 | ||
| 21 | 8 | Conceded | C | 24 | 43 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 86% | 88% | ||
| 64% | 62% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 71% | 68% | ||
| 40% | 31% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 43% | 48% | ||
| 24% | 15% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 29% | 32% | ||
| 16% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 14% | 20% | ||
| 48% | 38% | BTTS | BTTS | 29% | 44% | ||
| 40% | 54% | Clean Sheets | C S | 29% | 24% | ||
| 16% | 15% | Failed to Score | F T | 57% | 44% | ||
| 4.4 | 5.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.1 | 5 | ||
| 3.3 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.3 | 5.2 | ||
| 1.7 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.4 | 1.8 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 1.1 | 2.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.3 | 1.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0.7 | 0.4 | ||
| 141% | 138% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 100% | 233% | ||
| 1.2 | 2.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0.8 | 0.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0.3 | 0.2 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Dinamo Minsk | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 34 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 23 | 32 |
| 2 | Neman Grodno | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 17 | 32 |
| 3 | Torpedo BelAZ | 14 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 19 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 12 | 27 |
| 4 | BATE | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 22 |
| 5 | Isloch | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 21 |
| 6 | Slavia | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 21 |
| 7 | Minsk | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 18 |
| 8 | Slutsk | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 18 |
| 9 | Gomel | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 27 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 13 | -7 | 17 |
| 10 | Smorgon | 14 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 15 | 27 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 17 | -12 | 15 |
| 11 | Dinamo Brest | 14 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 12 | 24 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 13 | -12 | 10 |
| 12 | Naftan | 14 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 25 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 16 | -18 | 8 |
| 13 | Belshina | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 29 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 21 | -19 | -2 |
| 14 | Shakhtyor | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 27 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 13 | -6 |
| 15 | Ynergetyk-BDU | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 | -8 | -10 |
