The visiting Shakhtyor Petrikov side should be favourites in this visit to Polotsk, as the away team holds a 30 point advantage from their 18 league games this season.
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Polotsk form and stats
3-1-5 (win-draw-lost) are the Second Division numbers at home for Polotsk, who have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Second Division, so far this season.
Polotsk can score goals in their home matches. After 9 league matches they have found the net 20 times. As for conceded goals, Polotsk's unpleasant statistic is 25 goals surrendered.
Shakhtyor Petrikov form and stats
The strength of Shakhtyor Petrikov on their travels this season is incredible with 21 points collected from 8 Second Division away games. Shakhtyor Petrikov has 7-0-1 on the road, with 29 goals scored and 7 conceded. Shakhtyor Petrikov has been amazing away for a time now, winning four in a row on their travels. The last time they went home with a point loss was against Dnepr Mogilev.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Energosbyt-BSATU at their stadium, the result 7-1.
The prediction for this game is lots of goals as Shakhtyor alone have scored more than three on average in their league games away (29 from 8 played). It's worth mentioning that 15 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. It's not easy to score on Shakhtyor as they have only conceded 7 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Shakhtyor Petrikov - Polotsk 6-1 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season.Polotsk missing players
Shakhtyor Petrikov missing players
| Polotsk | Shakhtyor Petrikov | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 9 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 8 | 18 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 7 | 14 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 27 | 20 | 4 | Scored | S | 14 | 29 | 70 |
| 72 | 25 | 10 | Conceded | C | 2 | 7 | 16 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 89% | 89% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 84% | 89% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 83% |
| 74% | 67% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 75% | 61% |
| 53% | 44% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 38% | 39% |
| 47% | 56% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 62% | 56% |
| 5% | 11% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 38% | 39% |
| 47% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 6% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3.2 | 3.8 | 6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.3 | 2.6 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 116 | 71 | 6 | Total Shots | T S | 49 | 106 | 184 |
| 43 | 27 | 4 | Shots on Target | S O | 29 | 54 | 101 |
| 49% | 67% | 75% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 34% | 41% | 48% |
- All of Shakhtyor Petrikov's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Polotsk has the fewest clean sheets (0) in Second Division
- Polotsk has the most conceded goals in the first half (32) in Second Division
- Polotsk have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Polotsk have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Polotsk haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Shakhtyor Petrikov have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Shakhtyor Petrikov have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Shakhtyor Petrikov have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Shakhtyor Petrikov have scored more than double the goals of Polotsk.
- Shakhtyor Petrikov haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Shakhtyor Petrikov is in the best form (5-1-0)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Dnepr Mogilev | 18 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 97 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 53 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 4 | 88 | 51 |
| 2 | Shakhtyor Petrikov | 18 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 70 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 41 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 29 | 7 | 54 | 43 |
| 3 | Osipovichy | 18 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 41 | 30 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 17 | 11 | 34 |
| 4 | Gorki | 18 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 31 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 12 | 31 |
| 5 | Viktoriya Maryina Horka | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 40 | 31 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 24 | 9 | 28 |
| 6 | SMI Autotrans | 18 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 42 | 44 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 18 | 27 | -2 | 26 |
| 7 | MKK-Dnepr | 18 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 36 | 42 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 25 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 22 | -6 | 24 |
| 8 | Bumprom | 18 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 27 | 46 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 19 | 23 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 23 | -19 | 23 |
| 9 | Polotsk | 19 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 27 | 72 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 20 | 25 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 47 | -45 | 13 |
| 10 | Energosbyt-BSATU | 18 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 27 | 52 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 14 | 29 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 23 | -25 | 9 |
| 11 | Zhlobin | 19 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 12 | 89 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 32 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 57 | -77 | 7 |