Minsk vs Slavia: Soccer match preview

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Competition: Belarus Vysshaya Liga
Competition: Sun 24.October
Match begins: 10:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadyen Traktar (16500 seats)

Slavia have rested after their 3-1-game against BATE and are keen to face Minsk. Here's all the intelligence!

Insights:
  • Minsk have the most dropped points from leading position (15) in Vysshaya Liga
  • Slavia have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Minsk and Slavia should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Slavia have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 7-2-5 (win-draw-loss) from 14 matches.

Relegation threatens Minsk who should definitely be looking for some points here. Slavia are struggling to avoid relegation.

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Minsk form and stats

Minsk have played 12 Vysshaya Liga games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 4-5-3 (wins-draws-losses).

Minsk drew their last game, also a home match. Gomel (placed 5th) was the opponent, 0-0 the score.

2-2 away at Dinamo Brest before that.

Minsk have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Stadyen Traktar with 18 goals in 12 league matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Minsk defense is not exactly impregnable. 20 goals conceded from 12 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Slavia form and stats

There's been little loot from Slavia's travels as they have only collected 11 points from 12 away games in the Vysshaya Liga. Slavia only have 3 wins to counter their 7 defeats and 2 draws.

Yevgeni Barsukov and Gleb Zherdev scored in Slavia's previous match, the home game against BATE that ended 3-1.

Preceding that game, the 0-3 loss visiting Gomel's place.

The visiting Slavia have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 14 goals from 12 games. As for defending, Slavia rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 23 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Slavia - Minsk 1-2 was the score in these teams' last head to head match, earlier this season. Statistics for the preceeding ten meetings involving these two contenders are: five wins for Minsk, two draws and three wins for Slavia. Over 2,5 goals: eight times; under 2,5 goals: two games.

Top Goalscorers

SlaviaF. Narh
F. Narh
8 goals
MinskM. López
M. López
7 goals
MinskY. Bogomolskiy
Y. Bogomolskiy
4 goals

Minsk missing players

Slavia missing players

Minsk Slavia
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
25 12 4 Played P 3 12 25
7 4 3 Won W 2 3 6
8 5 1 Drew D 0 2 6
10 3 0 Lost L 1 7 13
30 18 9 Scored S 5 14 32
41 20 4 Conceded C 2 23 45
96% 92% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
76% 83% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 92% 92%
60% 75% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 75% 64%
40% 50% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 36%
8% 8% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 8% 12%
52% 58% 75% BTTS BTTS 33% 42% 56%
20% 25% 25% Clean Sheets C S 67% 25% 16%
32% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 28%
 
4.5 4.6 7.3 Corners for (avg) C F 5 5 5.9
6.5 5.9 5.3 Corners against (avg) C A 4.3 5.6 5
2.4 1.9 1.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.7 2.8 2.3
4 2 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
7.3 6.2 7 Shots (avg) S ( 12 9.2 9.1
3.1 3.4 4.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6 3.3 3.3
36% 41% 46% Goal Efficiency G E 28% 35% 37%
Key stats in Vysshaya Liga this season:
  • Minsk have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Minsk have the most dropped points from leading position (15) in Vysshaya Liga
  • Minsk have the most matches over the total-line (14) in Vysshaya Liga
  • Slavia have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Slavia 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 Shakhtyor 24 20 2 2 50 13 13 12 1 0 30 4 11 8 1 2 20 9 37 62
2 BATE 26 16 7 3 51 26 13 11 1 1 27 10 13 5 6 2 24 16 25 55
3 Dinamo Minsk 26 17 3 6 49 19 13 9 0 4 23 9 13 8 3 2 26 10 30 54
4 Ruh Brest 26 14 9 3 44 20 13 9 3 1 28 8 13 5 6 2 16 12 24 51
5 Gomel 25 14 7 4 48 19 12 8 4 0 27 5 13 6 3 4 21 14 29 49
6 Dinamo Brest 26 7 13 6 28 25 13 3 7 3 14 15 13 4 6 3 14 10 3 34
7 Vitebsk 26 8 10 8 33 33 13 5 6 2 18 11 13 3 4 6 15 22 0 34
8 Isloch 26 9 7 10 37 39 13 5 3 5 14 12 13 4 4 5 23 27 -2 34
9 Neman Grodno 26 8 6 12 32 30 13 4 3 6 17 14 13 4 3 6 15 16 2 30
10 Torpedo BelAZ 25 8 5 12 29 34 12 4 2 6 17 14 13 4 3 6 12 20 -5 29
11 Ynergetyk-BDU 26 7 8 11 28 34 13 3 6 4 14 14 13 4 2 7 14 20 -6 29
12 Minsk 25 7 8 10 30 41 12 4 5 3 18 20 13 3 3 7 12 21 -11 29
13 Slutsk 26 6 7 13 27 42 13 5 4 4 22 23 13 1 3 9 5 19 -15 25
14 Slavia 25 6 6 13 32 45 13 3 4 6 18 22 12 3 2 7 14 23 -13 24
15 Smorgon 26 3 7 16 23 63 13 2 4 7 14 25 13 1 3 9 9 38 -40 16
16 Sputnik 26 2 1 23 12 70 13 1 0 12 6 40 13 1 1 11 6 30 -58 7

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.