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Competition: Belarus Vysshaya Liga
Competition: Fri 15.July
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadyen Central'ny (14307 seats)

Gomel will plan to use their home advantage to get one over today’s opponents. The hosts are currently 3 points behind Minsk.

Insights:
  • Gomel haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Minsk have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Vysshaya Liga

Gomel's stadium, Stadyen Central'ny, has a grass surface. Minsk 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 Minsk when playing on grass; 5 wins, 3 draws and 9 losses from 17 matches. They have scored 25 goals in these games and conceded 37.

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!

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Gomel form and stats

The complete Vysshaya Liga statistics at home this season for Gomel are 3-1-2 (wins-draws-losses). Gomel has recorded two wins in a row here at Stadyen Central'ny, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.

Stress levels are on the rise for Gomel's attacking players as they have now played 250 minutes without scoring in a league game. Anufriev was their last goal scorer. Nothing to worry about in defence for Gomel, as their goalkeeper Denis Sadovskiy has completely shut out the opponents for 357 minutes in the Vysshaya Liga.

An away draw last time out for Gomel, facing Ynergetyk-BDU in a game that ended 0-0.

Ahead of that match, Gomel won a home game hosting Neman Grodno (3-0).

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Gomel here at Stadyen Central'ny in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (5 from 6 games). Gomel are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stadyen Central'ny in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 6 matches.

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Minsk form and stats

2 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses. That’s the product of Minsk, who have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Vysshaya Liga, playing as the away team in the Vysshaya Liga this season.

Minsk's last game was the home draw against BATE (2-2). Drawing 2-2 against BATE after 90 minutes last time out was very disappointing after leading the match 2-0. Their manager Skripchenko needs to evaluate why the team couldn't defend their result.

Preceding that game was the away victory against Dnepr Mogilev with the score of 4-2.

Minsk has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 11 goals from 6 games. For Minsk, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's six Gomel victories, one draw and three Minsk wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

MinskV. Khvashchinskiy
V. Khvashchinskiy
8 goals
GomelA. Makas
A. Makas
6 goals
MinskY. Bogomolskiy
Y. Bogomolskiy
6 goals

Gomel missing players

Minsk missing players

Gomel Minsk
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
14 6 1 Played P 1 6 14
6 4 0 Won W 0 2 7
4 0 0 Drew D 0 1 2
4 2 1 Lost L 1 3 5
18 8 0 Scored S 2 11 24
14 4 1 Conceded C 4 13 22
93% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
64% 50% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 79%
43% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 50% 43%
21% 17% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 50% 43%
7% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 50% 36%
50% 17% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 67% 50%
29% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 29%
29% 33% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 21%
 
3.4 4 3 Corners for (avg) C F 8 8 6
6.6 6.5 7 Corners against (avg) C A 12 12 10
1.4 1 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2 1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
0 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 0
0 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 0
0% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 0 0
0 0 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 0 0
Key stats in Vysshaya Liga this season:
  • All of Minsk's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Gomel haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Minsk have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Minsk have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Minsk have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Vysshaya Liga
  • Minsk have won significantly more corners away than at home.
  • Minsk haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 14 8 5 1 26 8 5 3 1 1 9 4 9 5 4 0 17 4 18 29
2 Ynergetyk-BDU 14 8 4 2 26 10 9 4 3 2 16 7 5 4 1 0 10 3 16 28
3 Dinamo Minsk 13 7 4 2 20 13 6 1 4 1 7 7 7 6 0 1 13 6 7 25
4 Isloch 14 7 4 3 22 16 8 3 3 2 11 9 6 4 1 1 11 7 6 25
5 Minsk 14 7 2 5 24 22 8 5 1 2 13 9 6 2 1 3 11 13 2 23
6 Shakhtyor 12 6 3 3 14 7 6 4 0 2 8 2 6 2 3 1 6 5 7 21
7 Slavia 13 6 2 5 22 20 7 3 2 2 13 11 6 3 0 3 9 9 2 20
8 Gomel 14 5 5 4 15 14 6 3 1 2 5 4 8 2 4 2 10 10 1 20
9 Torpedo BelAZ 14 6 2 6 15 16 5 2 1 2 8 7 9 4 1 4 7 9 -1 20
10 Neman Grodno 13 4 7 2 17 14 7 3 3 1 10 8 6 1 4 1 7 6 3 19
11 Belshina 14 4 5 5 17 20 8 2 2 4 7 12 6 2 3 1 10 8 -3 17
12 Slutsk 13 3 6 4 14 21 6 1 3 2 7 10 7 2 3 2 7 11 -7 15
13 Vitebsk 14 2 4 8 11 21 6 1 2 3 4 8 8 1 2 5 7 13 -10 10
14 Arsenal 14 2 4 8 9 19 8 2 2 4 8 12 6 0 2 4 1 7 -10 10
15 Dinamo Brest 14 1 4 9 9 23 8 0 4 4 6 13 6 1 0 5 3 10 -14 7
16 Dnepr Mogilev 14 1 3 10 12 29 6 1 0 5 5 13 8 0 3 5 7 16 -17 6

Read more about Vysshaya Liga

The Belarusian Premier League (or, the Vysshaya Liga) is the top level of football in Belarus. It was founded in 1992 after Belarus declared independence. It currently has 16 teams in a season running in spring, summer and autumn. Each team plays 30 fixtures to create a final league table.