Football betting preview: Smolevichy-STI with moderate expectations before welcoming Minsk

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Competition: Belarus Vysshaya Liga
Competition: Wed 23.September
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Ozernyj (1000 seats)

An important duel in the bottom section of the Vysshaya Liga, with both Smolevichy-STI and Minsk experiencing more worry than joy. This match is a classic "six-pointer" with the home team placed 16th and the visitors in 12th place.

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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Smolevichy-STI form and stats

Smolevichy-STI's struggle is real here at Stadion Ozernyj with only 11 points collected from 11 Vysshaya Liga games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 3-2-6. Regardless of arena the trend is looking very unhealthy for Smolevichy-STI with their six defeats in a row. Not since the Isloch game, 74 days ago, have they avoided a loss. Smolevichy-STI are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at Stadion Ozernyj, having lost their two previous games here.

The Smolevichy-STI fans got no joy from their last match, a Vysshaya Liga game also here at Stadion Ozernyj: A 0-6 defeat against Ruh Brest (placed 6th). Heartbreak before that as Smolevichy-STI lost 2-5 at BATE's place.

Smolevichy-STI were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.

Smolevichy-STI has scored 16 league goals at home this season, in 11 matches. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Smolevichy-STI with 26 goals conceded in these matches.

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Minsk form and stats

Minsk have only collected 8 points from their away games in the Vysshaya Liga, after 2-2-7 (11 played).

Minsk play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-2 to Neman Grodno (placed 3rd). A home win before that, celebrating 3-0 vs Gorodeya.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Minsk as they have only managed to score 9 times from 11 away games in the league. The Minsk manager V. Skripchenko has some worries about the defense as 23 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

As for the last three games between these two teams, there's zero Smolevichy-STI victories, two draws and one Minsk win. Over/under statistics; zero of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.

Smolevichy-STI missing players

Minsk missing players

Smolevichy-STI Minsk
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
22 11 3 Played P 3 11 22
3 3 2 Won W 2 2 7
5 2 0 Drew D 1 2 4
14 6 1 Lost L 0 7 11
23 16 6 Scored S 7 9 27
49 26 5 Conceded C 3 23 42
91% 91% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
77% 82% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 73% 73%
59% 73% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 36% 50%
41% 55% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 36% 36%
27% 36% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 18% 23%
55% 55% 67% BTTS BTTS 100% 45% 50%
9% 9% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 9%
45% 45% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 55% 41%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.8 2.8 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.5 2.4
3 2 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
161 87 41 Total Shots T S 28 98 224
68 36 19 Shots on Target S O 8 31 90
34% 44% 32% Goal Efficiency G E 88% 29% 30%
Key stats in Vysshaya Liga this season:
  • Minsk have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Minsk have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Minsk haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Smolevichy-STI has the fewest scored goals in the first half (7) in Vysshaya Liga
  • Smolevichy-STI has the most conceded goals (26) at home in Vysshaya Liga
  • Smolevichy-STI has the most conceded goals (49) in Vysshaya Liga
  • Smolevichy-STI has the most conceded goals in the second half (29) in Vysshaya Liga
  • Smolevichy-STI has the the worst goal difference (-26) in Vysshaya Liga
  • Smolevichy-STI have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Smolevichy-STI have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Smolevichy-STI is in the worst form (0-0-6)

  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 24 15 4 5 52 24 12 7 3 2 23 9 12 8 1 3 29 15 28 49
2 Shakhtyor 24 13 7 4 43 14 12 8 2 2 27 5 12 5 5 2 16 9 29 46
3 Neman Grodno 24 13 5 6 33 22 12 8 2 2 18 8 12 5 3 4 15 14 11 44
4 Torpedo BelAZ 24 11 8 5 39 30 12 7 3 2 18 13 12 4 5 3 21 17 9 41
5 Isloch 24 13 2 9 38 34 12 8 2 2 22 13 12 5 0 7 16 21 4 41
6 Ruh Brest 24 9 9 6 41 27 12 3 4 5 15 19 12 6 5 1 26 8 14 36
7 Dinamo Brest 22 11 2 9 39 28 11 6 1 4 21 15 11 5 1 5 18 13 11 35
8 Ynergetyk-BDU 23 10 4 9 33 34 11 5 2 4 22 21 12 5 2 5 11 13 -1 34
9 Dinamo Minsk 23 10 3 10 27 21 11 6 1 4 11 8 12 4 2 6 16 13 6 33
10 Vitebsk 24 7 10 7 24 29 12 5 5 2 14 10 12 2 5 5 10 19 -5 31
11 Slavia 22 7 6 9 30 41 11 4 4 3 14 15 11 3 2 6 16 26 -11 27
12 Minsk 22 7 4 11 27 42 11 5 2 4 18 19 11 2 2 7 9 23 -15 25
13 Slutsk 22 6 3 13 25 40 12 3 3 6 14 18 10 3 0 7 11 22 -15 21
14 Gorodeya 24 5 5 14 20 41 12 3 3 6 12 19 12 2 2 8 8 22 -21 20
15 Belshina 24 5 5 14 27 45 12 2 2 8 13 25 12 3 3 6 14 20 -18 20
16 Smolevichy-STI 22 3 5 14 23 49 11 3 2 6 16 26 11 0 3 8 7 23 -26 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.