Vitebsk will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 4 points behind Gomel.
- Vitebsk have not yet lost a game at home.
- Gomel have scored more than double the goals of Vitebsk.
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!
Vitebsk form and stats
Vitebsk have less points than they have played home games in the Vysshaya Liga so far. Their two previous attempts here have produced 2 points. Two draws in a row at home now for Vitebsk.
Stress levels are on the rise for Vitebsk's attacking players as they have now played 221 minutes without scoring in a league game. R. Teverov was their last goal scorer. The Vitebsk goalkeeper Dmitry Guschenko is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 330 minutes without conceding a goal in the Vysshaya Liga.
The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 0-0 versus Slutsk.
Vitebsk has scored 0 goals so far and conceded 0 goals from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.
Gomel form and stats
Gomel are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Vysshaya Liga, having played 3 games and collected 4 points (1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss).
Preceding that game was the away victory against Dinamo Minsk with the score of 2-1.
As mentioned above, Gomel drew the match against Torpedo BelAZ. Manager I. Bionchik brought on Nikita Nekrasov to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked.
Gomel has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 5 goals from 3 games. Gomel struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 5 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Vitebsk six wins, one draw and Gomel three victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Solovey 5 goals |  R. Teverov 2 goals | D. Gomza 2 goals |
Vitebsk missing players
Gomel missing players
| Vitebsk | Gomel | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 33% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 67% | 33% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 17% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 33% | 17% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 83% | 100% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 83% | 100% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.4 | 4 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 2 | 2.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3.6 | 5 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 16 | 13 | 9.3 |
| 1.6 | 2 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 9 | 6 | 4.8 |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 11% | 28% | 34% |
- All of Gomel's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Gomel have scored in all their matches so far.
- Gomel have scored more than double the goals of Vitebsk.
- Gomel haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Vitebsk have failed to score a single goal at home.
- Vitebsk have not yet lost a game at home.
- Vitebsk have yet to win a game 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 | Shakhtyor | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 18 |
| 2 | BATE | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 14 |
| 3 | Dinamo Brest | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 12 |
| 4 | Dinamo Minsk | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 11 |
| 5 | Gomel | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | Ruh Brest | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 7 | Isloch | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | -1 | 9 |
| 8 | Minsk | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 9 | Vitebsk | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 10 | Torpedo BelAZ | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -5 | 7 |
| 11 | Ynergetyk-BDU | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 12 | Slutsk | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | -4 | 5 |
| 13 | Slavia | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -5 | 4 |
| 14 | Smorgon | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 14 | -11 | 4 |
| 15 | Neman Grodno | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -5 | 3 |
| 16 | Sputnik | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -12 | 3 |