A key match in Vysshaya Liga as both teams are battling for the top positions. With BATE in 1st position and Shakhtyor placed 2nd, this promises to be an exciting meeting. Read on to find out more!
The hosts BATE saw competitive action as recent as zero days ago, playing in the Vysshaya Liga. Thankfully the previous game, versus Shakhtyor, was also a home game here at Borisov Arena. The away team is better rested.
BATE form and stats
BATE have played 5 Vysshaya Liga games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 4-1-0 (wins-draws-losses). BATE haven’t lost a league-game in eleven attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Slavia, 78 days ago.
BATE drew their last game, also a home match. Shakhtyor (placed 2nd) was the opponent, 2-2 the score. Before that, BATE played out a draw 2-2 when visiting Vitebsk.
The hometeam coach K. Alshevskiy made a successful contribution in the game against Shakhtyor, bringing on Maksim Skavysh who scored the equalizer in the 2-2 draw.
The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how BATE have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found five matches with the results: Won two, drawn two and lost one.
BATE have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Borisov Arena with 8 goals in 5 league matches. As for guarding their own goal, BATE have only let in 1 goal at home.
Shakhtyor form and stats
3 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses. That’s the product of Shakhtyor, who have the most clean sheets (10) in Vysshaya Liga, playing as the away team in the Vysshaya Liga this season. The fact that Shakhtyor have won four matches in a row should scare the hosts and makes this contest more interesting.
Shakhtyor have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Aleksandr Gutor. It's been 675 minutes since they last conceded in Vysshaya Liga.
Vitali Lisakovich scored in Shakhtyor's previous match, the home game against Ynergetyk-BDU that ended 1-0. Ahead of that match was the victory versus Dinamo Minsk at their stadium, the result 1-0.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found four similar matches played by Shakhtyor in our archives, and the results are: one win for Shakhtyor, one draw and two defeats.
Shakhtyor have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 5 league away games 5 goals have been scored. Shakhtyor are tighter than a frog's bottom, as only 0 away goals have been conceded so far.
Head 2 Head
The two sides played each other earlier this season: BATE - Shakhtyor 2-2. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - four - one (BATE wins - draws - Shakhtyor wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  P. Nekhajchik 6 goals |  V. Lisakovich 6 goals | S. Dragun 5 goals |
BATE missing players
Shakhtyor missing players
| BATE | Shakhtyor | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 12 |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 27 | 10 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 5 | 17 |
| 14 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 92% | 83% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 60% | 75% |
| 77% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 40% | 50% |
| 69% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 46% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 54% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 46% | 67% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 100% | 83% |
| 8% | 17% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 40% | 33% |
| 5.2 | 5 | 11 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 6.8 | 6.4 |
| 4.4 | 3 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 12 | 4.6 | 4.2 |
| 1.9 | 1.8 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 7 | 3.2 | 2.7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 158 | 77 | 22 | Total Shots | T S | 20 | 67 | 159 |
| 77 | 35 | 11 | Shots on Target | S O | 7 | 29 | 67 |
| 35% | 29% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 17% | 25% |
- BATE has the fewest conceded goals (1) at home
- BATE has the most scored goals in the first half (14)
- BATE have not yet lost a game at home.
- BATE have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Shakhtyor has the fewest conceded goals (0) away
- Shakhtyor has the fewest conceded goals (3)
- Shakhtyor has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2)
- Shakhtyor has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (1)
- Shakhtyor has the most clean sheets (10)
- Shakhtyor has the most clean sheets (5) away
- Shakhtyor has the the best goal difference (+14)
- Shakhtyor have not yet conceded a single goal in all their away games.
- Shakhtyor have not yet lost a game away.
- Shakhtyor have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | BATE | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 25 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 13 | 26 |
| 2 | Shakhtyor | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 24 |
| 3 | Dinamo Brest | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 25 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 10 | 22 |
| 4 | Torpedo BelAZ | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 22 |
| 5 | Ynergetyk-BDU | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 22 |
| 6 | Neman Grodno | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 20 |
| 7 | Dinamo Minsk | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 18 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 19 |
| 8 | Isloch | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | -3 | 19 |
| 9 | Slutsk | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -3 | 18 |
| 10 | Vitebsk | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | -2 | 15 |
| 11 | Gorodeya | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -6 | 15 |
| 12 | Ruh Brest | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 5 | -1 | 15 |
| 13 | Slavia | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 13 | -6 | 15 |
| 14 | Minsk | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 23 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 12 | -9 | 13 |
| 15 | Smolevichy-STI | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | -8 | 7 |
| 16 | Belshina | 12 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 27 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 11 | -18 | 3 |