This match features two teams living in the basement of the Vysshaya Liga, Minsk holding 14th place and Slavia lying 11th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.
Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!
It should be mentioned that Slavia play their home matches on grass, so they have to adjust for this one as it's played on artifical turf. Does it matter? Recent statistics for Slavia on artifical turf are 4 victories, 4 draws and 3 defeats from eleven games. In these matches they have a goal statistics scored/conceded: 15-16. You can compare this with overall results below.
Minsk form and stats
3-2-4 (win-draw-lost) are the Vysshaya Liga numbers at home for Minsk so far this season.
A. Zaleski was the last player to score a league goal for Minsk and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Minsk haven't scored in 219 minutes.
The Minsk crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to Ruh Brest here at Stadyen Traktar in a Vysshaya Liga match. A defeat was the result before that one, 0-6 away at BATE.
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 Minsk have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found seven matches with the results: Won four, drawn zero and lost three.
Minsk has scored 11 league goals at home this season, in 9 matches. Minsk have conceded 16 from these games.
Slavia form and stats
3-2-5 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Slavia, who have the most conceded goals (22) away in Vysshaya Liga, in their Vysshaya Liga matches away. Visiting Slavia has seen their last two away games both end with a tied score and one point each.
The manager M. Martsinovich was unhappy after their last game, a Vysshaya Liga match played at their home ground Stadyen Junatsva. Slavia suffered a 2-4 loss to Isloch (placed 8th). Before that, Slavia travelled to Ruh Brest and returned home with a draw after the game finished 3-3.
As you can tell from the result, the match against Isloch was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today?
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by Slavia in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Slavia, one draw and three defeats.
Slavia have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 10 league away games 14 goals have been scored. Slavia have conceded 22 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the Slavia - Minsk 1-3 earlier this season. Last ten meetings between the teams: Minsk won four, Slavia won three and three draws. seven games with over 2,5 goals, three matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Slyusar 6 goals |  F. Narh 5 goals |  A. Chukhley 4 goals |
Minsk missing players
Slavia missing players
| Minsk | Slavia | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 9 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 10 | 19 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 10 | 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| 19 | 11 | 3 | Scored | S | 4 | 14 | 26 |
| 36 | 16 | 2 | Conceded | C | 5 | 22 | 36 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 89% |
| 67% | 67% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 90% | 84% |
| 50% | 56% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 70% | 68% |
| 39% | 33% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 50% | 47% |
| 22% | 22% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 40% | 26% |
| 50% | 56% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 70% | 74% |
| 6% | 11% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 11% |
| 44% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 30% | 26% |
| 5.3 | 4.7 | 3.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 5.1 | 5.3 |
| 5.1 | 5.2 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 5.5 | 4.4 |
| 2.7 | 2.6 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.3 | 2.1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 172 | 93 | 16 | Total Shots | T S | 17 | 99 | 171 |
| 65 | 43 | 7 | Shots on Target | S O | 5 | 37 | 67 |
| 29% | 26% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 80% | 38% | 39% |
- Minsk has the fewest scored goals in the second half (9)
- Minsk have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Minsk haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Slavia has the most conceded goals (22) away
- Slavia have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Slavia have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Slavia haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Shakhtyor | 20 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 35 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 26 | 40 |
| 2 | BATE | 20 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 41 | 21 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 14 | 20 | 37 |
| 3 | Neman Grodno | 19 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 24 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 37 |
| 4 | Torpedo BelAZ | 20 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 28 | 23 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 33 |
| 5 | Dinamo Minsk | 20 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 22 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 30 |
| 6 | Ynergetyk-BDU | 20 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 27 | 30 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 19 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 11 | -3 | 30 |
| 7 | Dinamo Brest | 18 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 32 | 22 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 29 |
| 8 | Isloch | 20 | 9 | 2 | 9 | 26 | 27 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 17 | -1 | 29 |
| 9 | Vitebsk | 20 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 20 | 19 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 1 | 29 |
| 10 | Ruh Brest | 20 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 27 | 20 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 7 | 29 |
| 11 | Slavia | 19 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 26 | 36 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 22 | -10 | 23 |
| 12 | Slutsk | 19 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 21 | 31 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 18 | -10 | 21 |
| 13 | Gorodeya | 20 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 18 | 31 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 18 | -13 | 20 |
| 14 | Minsk | 18 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 19 | 36 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 20 | -17 | 18 |
| 15 | Smolevichy-STI | 19 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 20 | 34 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 20 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 14 | -14 | 14 |
| 16 | Belshina | 20 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 18 | 38 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 20 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 18 | -20 | 13 |