Lida vs Belshina preview

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Competition: Belarus Pershaya Liga
Competition: Sat 04.September
Match begins: 00:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadyen GSK Junatstva (3000 seats)

This season has been grim for Lida up to now, while Belshina have enjoyed success. Will the guests get another win at Stadyen GSK Junatstva?

Insights:
  • Lida have the fewest points (5) at home in Pershaya Liga
  • Belshina have the most points from losing position (12) in Pershaya Liga

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

Lida's stadium, Stadyen GSK Junatstva, has a artifical turf surface. Belshina have grass 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 Belshina when playing on artifical turf; 4 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses from nine matches. They have scored 11 goals in these games and conceded 15.

Lida can neither be promoted or relegated from Pershaya Liga. Belshina are still fighting for top positions and their benefits.

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Lida form and stats

Lida's results here at Stadyen GSK Junatstva in the Pershaya Liga have been very modest with 0 victories, 5 draws and 5 defeats. Lida are slowly digging their own grave here at Stadyen GSK Junatstva with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in ten attempts. The last victory here came in the Slonim match.

It's back home for Lida, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Baranovichi away with the result 4-0. A. Mikhalchuk and M. Loiqov (2) found the net in that victory. As mentioned above, Lida "killed" Baranovichi in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency.

Prior to that, an away loss at Gomelzheldortrans.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Lida here at Stadyen GSK Junatstva in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (6 from 10 games). Lida have conceded 16 from these games.

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Belshina form and stats

4-2-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Belshina in their Pershaya Liga matches away.

Belshina are travelling after their nice 2-1 home win in the Pershaya Liga against Orsha (placed 9th).

Prior to that match, the Belshina manager V. Pavlov faced defeat when travelling to Arsenal and losing 1-4.

Belshina are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 12 away goals from 9 games (in the league). As for defending, Belshina rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 15 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Belshina - Lida 4-2 was the result in these contenders' previous H2H match, earlier this season. Stats for the former ten meetings involving these two contenders are: zero wins for Lida, one draw and nine wins for Belshina. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.

Top Goalscorers

BelshinaI. Vasilyev
I. Vasilyev
6 goals
BelshinaR. Isaev
R. Isaev
6 goals
LidaM. Loiqov
M. Loiqov
5 goals

Lida missing players

Belshina missing players

Lida Belshina
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
20 10 3 Played P 2 9 20
3 0 0 Won W 2 4 12
8 5 3 Drew D 0 2 4
9 5 0 Lost L 0 3 4
20 6 2 Scored S 3 12 36
35 16 2 Conceded C 0 15 25
90% 80% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 78% 90%
85% 80% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 67% 80%
50% 40% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 56% 50%
35% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 35%
10% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 33% 30%
60% 60% 67% BTTS BTTS 0% 56% 60%
15% 20% 33% Clean Sheets C S 100% 44% 35%
35% 40% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 22% 15%
 
4.8 4.3 4.7 Corners for (avg) C F 5.5 5.3 6
6.8 6.8 6.3 Corners against (avg) C A 5 4 4
1.9 1.8 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.3 2.5
3 2 0 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
7.6 7.4 6.7 Shots (avg) S ( 6.5 7.4 9.3
3.2 3.1 2.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 3.1 4.5
34% 21% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 60% 43% 40%
Key stats in Pershaya Liga this season:
  • Belshina have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Belshina have the most matches under the total-line (10) in Pershaya Liga
  • Belshina have the most points from losing position (12) in Pershaya Liga
  • Lida have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
  • Lida have the fewest points (5) at home in Pershaya Liga
  • Lida have yet to win a game at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Arsenal 20 12 5 3 37 16 10 6 2 2 21 6 10 6 3 1 16 10 21 41
2 Belshina 20 12 4 4 36 25 11 8 2 1 24 10 9 4 2 3 12 15 11 40
3 Krumkachy 20 10 5 5 35 17 10 8 1 1 25 6 10 2 4 4 10 11 18 35
4 Volna 20 10 3 7 29 24 10 5 0 5 17 16 10 5 3 2 12 8 5 33
5 Gomelzheldortrans 20 8 6 6 32 22 10 5 3 2 22 12 10 3 3 4 10 10 10 30
6 Dnepr Mogilev 20 8 6 6 31 22 10 4 4 2 19 11 10 4 2 4 12 11 9 30
7 Shakhtyor Petrikov 20 9 3 8 30 34 10 3 3 4 11 16 10 6 0 4 19 18 -4 30
8 Naftan 20 7 6 7 28 28 10 4 2 4 13 14 10 3 4 3 15 14 0 27
9 Orsha 20 6 5 9 24 32 10 3 4 3 12 13 10 3 1 6 12 19 -8 23
10 Lida 20 3 8 9 20 35 10 0 5 5 6 16 10 3 3 4 14 19 -15 17
11 Baranovichi 20 4 2 14 16 43 9 3 1 5 8 19 11 1 1 9 8 24 -27 14
12 Slonim 20 2 5 13 17 37 10 2 2 6 6 12 10 0 3 7 11 25 -20 11

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The Belarusian First League is the second division of football in Belarus. The season runs from April to November and has usually has 16 teams playing 30 fixtures each to create the final league table. The two top teams are promoted while the bottom team is relegated.