Vysshaya Liga duel: Close contest expected between Slavia and Vitebsk

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Competition: Belarus Vysshaya Liga
Competition: Sun 11.April
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)

It's still early in the Vysshaya Liga season, but we are learning more and more about the teams. Here is the Slavia - Vitebsk preview!

Insights:
  • Vitebsk have the fewest scored goals (0) in Vysshaya Liga

The visiting Vitebsk played their last game only four days ago, a Belarusian Cup match.

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Slavia form and stats

Slavia are yet to win a home game, having collected 1 point from their first two Vysshaya Liga games here.

Prior to that, an away loss at Isloch.

This is expected to be a close game, with Slavia perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Slavia as a small favourite), we find five games. Slavia has won three of these, drawn one and lost one.

Early season league goal statistics from Slavia's 2 home games: 1 goal, 2 conceded.

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Vitebsk form and stats

The Vysshaya Liga season is young and Vitebsk, who have the fewest scored goals (0) in Vysshaya Liga, have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 2 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 1 defeat so far.

The attacking players of Vitebsk have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 282 minutes.

Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Torpedo BelAZ's place.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found nine similar matches played by Vitebsk in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Vitebsk, one draw and five defeats.

It's early days yet, but Vitebsk has scored 0 and conceded 1 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).

Head 2 Head

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

Top Goalscorers

SlaviaY. Barsukov
Y. Barsukov
1 goals

Slavia missing players

Vitebsk missing players

Slavia Vitebsk
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
3 2 1 Played P 1 2 3
0 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
1 1 1 Drew D 1 1 2
2 1 0 Lost L 0 1 1
1 1 1 Scored S 0 0 0
3 2 1 Conceded C 0 1 1
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 50% 33%
33% 50% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
33% 50% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 50% 67%
67% 50% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 100% 100%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2 1 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.5 1.5
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11 9 0 Shots (avg) S ( 3 3 3
0.5 1 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 1.5 1.5
0% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 0%
Key stats in Vysshaya Liga this season:
  • Vitebsk have the fewest scored goals (0) in Vysshaya Liga
Slavia Last season Vitebsk
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
30 15   Played P   15 30
10 5   Won W   2 8
9 6   Drew D   6 12
11 4   Lost L   7 10
41 18   Scored S   13 30
49 19   Conceded C   25 38
93% 87%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 90%
83% 73%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   67% 57%
60% 47%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   33% 30%
33% 27%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   33% 30%
20% 7%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   13% 17%
73% 73%   BTTS BTTS   47% 43%
13% 20%   Clean Sheets C S   13% 37%
20% 20%   Failed to Score F T   40% 30%
 
0 0   Corners for (avg) C F   0 0
0 0   Corners against (avg) C A   0 0
2 1.7   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.3 2
3 0   Red cards R C   1 2
 
9 7.5   Shots (avg) S (   9.4 11.4
3.4 2.7   Shots on Target (avg) S O   4.1 4.6
40% 45%   Goal Efficiency G E   21% 22%

  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 3 3 0 0 7 1 2 2 0 0 5 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 6 9
2 Dinamo Brest 3 2 1 0 5 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 5 0 5 7
3 BATE 3 2 1 0 6 2 2 2 0 0 6 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 4 7
4 Dinamo Minsk 3 2 1 0 4 0 2 2 0 0 4 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 4 7
5 Isloch 3 2 0 1 3 4 2 2 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 4 -1 6
6 Torpedo BelAZ 3 2 0 1 2 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 1 3 -1 6
7 Gomel 3 1 1 1 5 4 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 1 3 4 1 4
8 Ynergetyk-BDU 4 1 1 2 4 3 3 1 0 2 4 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 4
9 Minsk 3 1 1 1 3 3 1 0 1 0 2 2 2 1 0 1 1 1 0 4
10 Ruh Brest 3 0 3 0 3 3 2 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 3
11 Sputnik 4 1 0 3 1 7 2 0 0 2 0 5 2 1 0 1 1 2 -6 3
12 Neman Grodno 3 0 2 1 1 2 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 -1 2
13 Vitebsk 3 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 1 -1 2
14 Slavia 3 0 1 2 1 3 2 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 -2 1
15 Slutsk 3 0 1 2 1 5 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 2 0 4 -4 1
16 Smorgon 3 0 1 2 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 1 6 -5 1
Last season 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 30 17 8 5 57 21 15 9 3 3 32 9 15 8 5 2 25 12 36 59
2 BATE 30 17 7 6 65 32 15 9 3 3 33 14 15 8 4 3 32 18 33 58
3 Torpedo BelAZ 30 16 8 6 55 37 15 9 3 3 24 15 15 7 5 3 31 22 18 56
4 Dinamo Brest 30 17 3 10 63 40 15 9 1 5 34 22 15 8 2 5 29 18 23 54
5 Neman Grodno 30 16 5 9 41 29 15 9 2 4 20 11 15 7 3 5 21 18 12 53
6 Dinamo Minsk 30 16 4 10 38 25 15 9 2 4 17 10 15 7 2 6 21 15 13 52
7 Isloch 30 13 6 11 47 46 15 8 4 3 29 21 15 5 2 8 18 25 1 45
8 Ruh Brest 30 11 11 8 57 38 15 4 5 6 22 22 15 7 6 2 35 16 19 44
9 Slavia 30 10 9 11 41 49 15 5 6 4 18 19 15 5 3 7 23 30 -8 39
10 Ynergetyk-BDU 30 11 5 14 43 46 15 5 3 7 26 29 15 6 2 7 17 17 -3 38
11 Minsk 30 11 5 14 45 57 15 7 3 5 25 25 15 4 2 9 20 32 -12 38
12 Vitebsk 30 8 12 10 30 38 15 6 6 3 17 13 15 2 6 7 13 25 -8 36
13 Gorodeya 30 8 7 15 30 48 15 4 4 7 18 24 15 4 3 8 12 24 -18 31
14 Slutsk 29 8 3 18 31 55 14 4 3 7 16 20 15 4 0 11 15 35 -24 27
15 Belshina 30 5 6 19 34 71 15 2 2 11 18 42 15 3 4 8 16 29 -37 21
16 Smolevichy-STI 29 3 5 21 27 72 15 3 2 10 18 41 14 0 3 11 9 31 -45 14

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.