Home advantage could prove decisive in Slavia - Minsk battle

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Competition: Belarus Vysshaya Liga
Competition: Fri 04.Aug
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadyen Junatsva (5353 seats)

Slavia and Minsk have delivered a "par" performance up to now, to use a golf expression. The teams both reside in mid-table spots in the Vysshaya Liga.

Insights:
  • Slavia have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Slavia have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Minsk have scored away.

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Minsk have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 3-6-7 (win-draw-loss) from 16 matches.

Slavia and Minsk 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.

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Slavia form and stats

The story so far in the Vysshaya Liga for Slavia at their home stadium (Stadyen Junatsva) is 4 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats.

Slavia are returning here after guesting Slonim in a Belarusian Cup game and winning with a 2-1 scoreline.

Preceding that game was the home draw versus Ynergetyk-BDU that ended 0-0.

Trench warfare? In this club's last 10 league games, 8 have had two goals or less.

Slavia has scored 9 league goals at home this season, in 7 matches. Slavia have only conceded 5 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Minsk form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Minsk so far with only 6 points returning home. The records show 1-3-3 (win-draw-lose).

249 minutes! That's how long the Minsk goalkeeper Aleksandr Nechaev and his defense have shut out their league opponents.

The club members enjoyed Minsk's previous fixture versus Dnepr Mogilev, a Belarusian Cup win (2-0) played at home.

Ahead of that, the Belarusian Cup win away at Molodechno-DYuSSh 4 (after extra-time).

Minsk are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed {3 goals} from 7 away games. Minsk are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 5 times in 7 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

The former head-to-head encounter ended Minsk - Slavia 2-0, played this season. Previous ten meetings between these teams: Slavia won four, Minsk were winners in six and we saw zero draws. seven games with over 2,5 goals, three matches with less than 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

SlaviaV. Poloz
V. Poloz
4 goals
MinskD. Dusheuski
D. Dusheuski
4 goals
MinskT. Martynov
T. Martynov
4 goals

Slavia missing players

Minsk missing players

Slavia Minsk
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
14 7 2 Played P 1 7 14
6 4 2 Won W 0 1 4
3 1 0 Drew D 1 3 6
5 2 0 Lost L 0 3 4
15 9 5 Scored S 1 3 13
13 5 1 Conceded C 1 5 12
93% 86% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 71% 86%
50% 43% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 29% 50%
21% 29% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 14% 29%
21% 29% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 14%
14% 14% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
36% 29% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 29% 43%
36% 43% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 29% 29%
36% 43% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 71% 43%
 
6.2 7 8.5 Corners for (avg) C F 6 4.3 3.9
4.4 3 3.5 Corners against (avg) C A 7 5.7 4.9
1.4 0.7 0.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.7 1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
0 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 0.5
0 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 0.2
0% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 433%
 
0 0 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 0 0.3
0 0 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 0 0.1
Key stats in Vysshaya Liga this season:
  • Slavia have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Slavia have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Minsk have scored away.
  • Slavia have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Dinamo Minsk 14 10 2 2 34 11 7 7 0 0 23 5 7 3 2 2 11 6 23 32
2 Neman Grodno 14 10 2 2 24 7 7 4 1 2 7 3 7 6 1 0 17 4 17 32
3 Torpedo BelAZ 14 7 6 1 19 7 7 3 4 0 12 5 7 4 2 1 7 2 12 27
4 BATE 14 6 4 4 20 14 7 2 2 3 9 9 7 4 2 1 11 5 6 22
5 Isloch 14 6 3 5 17 15 7 3 2 2 9 6 7 3 1 3 8 9 2 21
6 Slavia 14 6 3 5 15 13 7 4 1 2 9 5 7 2 2 3 6 8 2 21
7 Minsk 14 4 6 4 13 12 7 3 3 1 10 7 7 1 3 3 3 5 1 18
8 Slutsk 14 5 3 6 17 17 8 5 2 1 13 7 6 0 1 5 4 10 0 18
9 Gomel 14 4 5 5 20 27 8 4 1 3 11 14 6 0 4 2 9 13 -7 17
10 Smorgon 14 5 0 9 15 27 7 5 0 2 10 10 7 0 0 7 5 17 -12 15
11 Dinamo Brest 14 3 1 10 12 24 7 2 1 4 8 11 7 1 0 6 4 13 -12 10
12 Naftan 14 2 2 10 7 25 6 0 2 4 1 9 8 2 0 6 6 16 -18 8
13 Belshina 14 2 3 9 10 29 6 1 2 3 3 8 8 1 1 6 7 21 -19 -2
14 Shakhtyor 14 9 2 3 27 14 7 6 1 0 17 5 7 3 1 3 10 9 13 -6
15 Ynergetyk-BDU 14 3 4 7 6 14 7 3 1 3 4 6 7 0 3 4 2 8 -8 -10

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.